Deloitte has picked up another digital firm, this time building out its marketing technology skills and capabilities around the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Sizmek is the latest ad tech vendor to be picked up by a private equity firm after Vector Capital made a deal to acquire the company for US$122 million.

Teradata’s Marketing Applications (TMA) business is to be split into two and rebranded as part of ambitious plans by new owners, Marlin Equity Partners, to maintain category leadership.

Google has acquired Anvato, the developer of a video software platform, to shore up its cloud offering in the area of video delivery.

Microsoft has made a big bet on LinkedIn, announcing Monday that it will spend nearly US$26.2 billion to purchase the enterprise-focused social networking and recruiting company.

Salesforce.com is moving beyond CRM and into e-commerce with the acquisition of cloud service provider Demandware.

Adobe has acquired content management technology provider, Livefyre, adding yet another string to its Marketing Cloud bow.

The Association for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising (ADMA) has acquired the assets of AIMIA, the beleaguered Digital Industry Association of Australia.

WPP’s GroupM division is bolstering its programmatic advertising capabilities by acquiring The Exchange Lab and its proprietary technology, Proteus.

EBay has reached a deal to sell its enterprise unit, a division focused on building and running online shopping sites for bricks-and-mortar retailers, for less than half than it paid four years ago.

Verizon Communications has agreed to buy AOL for about US$4.4 billion, as it looks to build more extensive digital and video platforms to drive future growth.

Payments giant, MasterCard, is beefing up its predictive analytics capabilities by purchasing Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) for US$600 million this week.

In an effort to boost its mobile offerings, Yahoo is reportedly finishing up a deal to buy Foursquare.

Facebook has acquired The Find, a nine-year-old company with a search engine that indexes products across thousands of e-commerce sites.

In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language.

Teradata has acquired Israel-based mobile marketing automation vendor, Appoxee, as it looks to round out the omni-channel capabilities of its Integrated Marketing Cloud.

Half the money spent on advertising is wasted -- the question is, which half? That's the age-old question in adland. Now Oracle is hoping to help its customers answer that question with the acquisition of Datalogix, which collects offline consumer spending data in a bid to help online advertisers pick the right targets.

Accenture has acquired Australian digital agency, Reactive Media, in a bid to strengthen its digital marketing and technology services capabilities.

The search for game-changing technology capable of fueling growth in an uncertain economy is driving global tech mergers and acquisitions to a level not seen since the dotcom era.

European headquartered marketing agency, Publicis Groupe, has acquired marketing consultancy and omni-channel technology group, Sapient, for US$3.7 billion as it seeks to lead the converging marketing, commerce and technology space.

Facebook has revealed a little more about what compelled it to spend close to $US19 billion earlier this year to buy mobile messaging service WhatsApp -- a deal that had many scratching their heads at the huge sum.