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Under Armour recently acquired popular fitness tracking apps Endomodo and MyFitnessPal as part of its push into digital health.

In the merger, Merck acquired popular Schering-Plough brands like the nasal spray Nasonex, the allergy drug Claritin and the Coppertone sunscreen brand.

It acquired popular email app Mailbox plus teams from smaller startups like Endorse, Snapjoy, and Sold.

Kraft owns Boca Foods of Madison, Wis., and Dean Foods acquired popular soy milk producer White Wave in 2002 (see: "Dean Foods To Street: Green Is Good").

Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica (ranked #5 all time on the BloggerBoard), we've confirmed.

For example, it could license or acquire popular games.

"We promise not to screw it up," wrote Mayer then, to pre-empt criticism of Yahoo's previous record when acquiring popular internet services: online community GeoCities, photo-sharing service Flickr and social bookmarking site Delicious being the three most prominent examples.

MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we've confirmed with multiple sources.

U.S. Web outfit Yahoo! has made its biggest push yet into Europe's music download sector, acquiring popular online service dotmusic.com from BT Group, the companies said in a statement.

Update: The Wall Street Journal is now reporting this as well, saying "Google Inc. is in talks to acquire popular video-sharing site YouTube Inc. for roughly $1.6 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A day later, at the trade deadline, they re-acquired popular defenseman Adam Foote from the Columbus Blue Jackets as well as Ruslan Salei from the Florida Panthers.