Complete List of Q1 2009 Web / Internet / Tech Acquisitions

The big acquisition news coming out of Q1 2009 is really no news—activity remains slow. M&A activity began cooling down during Q3 2008 and has remained fairly stagnant since then. Last year at this time we saw 22 disclosed acquisitions with a total dollar value of $4.75 billion. Q1 2009, however, saw only six disclosed acquisitions totaling $1.5 billion.

Though only six of this quarter’s acquisitions were disclosed, there were actually 21 total companies bought and sold, 15 of which were undisclosed. When acquisitions are undisclosed, this typically means they are much smaller and immaterial in terms of dollar value.

There were six more acquisitions this quarter compared to Q4 2008; however, two of this quarter’s six disclosed acquisitions (Cisco’s acquisition of PureDigital and Autonomy’s acquisition of Interwoven) made up $1.37 billion of the $1.5 billion total. So although the actual number of acquisitions rose, the actual dollar values are likely much lower than past quarters.

We’d like to say thanks to all of the great blogs out there (TechCrunch, GigaOM, Mashable, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb and more) whose frequent tracking of acquisitions makes this list possible.

If you know of any acquisitions that we’ve missed, please leave a comment on this post and we’ll update it.

Web/Internet Companies Acquired in Q1 2009

Acquired	Acquirer	Acquisition cost	Details
Defensio	Websense	Undisclosed	Defensio is a comment spam blocker for blogs. Press Release \| TechCrunch Startupmeme
RevenueDirect	Sedo	Undisclosed	RevenueDirect is a domain parking and monetization service. Reuters \| TechCrunch BNet
LeGuide.com	GoAdv	$67.8 Million	LeGuide.com is a network of shopping portals operational in 14 European Countries. Press Release \| TechCrunch \| Yahoo
Match.com Europe	Meetic	Undisclosed	Match.com is an online dating site. TechCrunch \| Yahoo TheDeal
Thrive	Tree.com	Undisclosed	Thrive is an online money-management software. TechCrunch \| TradeVibes
Furl	Diigio	Undisclosed	Furl is a web page clipping and archiving service. TechCrunch \| ReadWriteWeb Wall Street Journal
Interwoven	Autonomy	$775 Million	Interwoven is a document management company. Press Release \| Wall Street Journal BNET
Good Technologies	Visto	Undisclosed	Good Technologies is a mobile email and synchronization company owned by Motorola. VentureBeat Reuters Official Blog

Social Networking Companies Acquired in Q1 of 2009

Acquired	Acquirer	Acquisition cost	Details
Enurgi	Univita Health	Undisclosed	Enurgi is a health care social network. Press Release \| TechCrunch BNET
Wamba	Mio.tv	$5.4 Million	Wamba is a Spanish social network. TechCrunch \| Startupmeme
Wellsphere	HealthCentral	Undisclosed	Wellsphere provides online health information and online health communities. Press Release \| TechCrunch \| BizJournal WallStreetJournal

Internet Advertising Companies Acquired in Q1 of 2009

Acquired	Acquirer	Acquisition cost	Details
AdaptiveAds	Glam	undisclosed	AdaptiveAds offers an ad targeting and personalization platform. VentureBeat Glammedia TechCrunch

Hardware Companies Acquired in Q1 of 2009

Acquired	Acquirer	Acquisition cost	Details
Pure Digital	Cisco	$590 Million	Pure Digital is the maker of the Flip video camera TechCrunch VentureBeat Gigaom

Software Companies Acquired in Q1 of 2009

Acquired	Acquirer	Acquisition cost	Details
Mazu Networks	Riverbed	$25 Million	Mazu is a maker of network management software Gigaom Riverbed BizJournals
AMD Handheld Graphics	Qualcomm	$65 Million	AMDs handheld graphics unit was acquired when they bought ATI Technologies. Gigaom Riverbed BizJournals
mValent	Oracle	undisclosed	mValent is a provide of application configuration solutions. oracle Qualcomm cnet
HI-TECH Software	Microchip Technology	undisclosed	HI-TECH Software is a provider of development tools. Microchip Yahoo Allbusiness
Digimix	Aviary	undisclosed	Digimix creates browser-based audio editing software aviary TechCrunch
Coghead	SAP	undisclosed	Coghead is a web-based enterprise software editor techcrunch zdnet venturebeat
Q-layer	Sun Microsystems	undisclosed	Q-layer is a Belgium based automation software for cloud computing deployments company TechCrunchit Sun Gigaom AllBusiness
SourceLab	EMC	undisclosed	SourceLabs provides tools and services used to support open source software development. TechCrunch cnet