O2 (Ireland) BT Group and 1 mm02 share for each British Telecommunications share they held. After the de-merger, most of mmO2's operations, including Digifone, were rebranded O2. mmO2 plc later became O2 plc and remained an independent company until 2005. On 31 October 2005 it was announced that Telefónica, S.A., the Spanish telecommunications company, had made a recommended takeover bid for O Ireland's parent company, O2 plc. This was then approved by shareholders and O was officially purchased in mid February 2006. The O2 brand is now used in several countries for Telefónica's mobile operations outside Spain and Latin America, where Telefónica
CMP Technology Service Mark 'WEB 2.0'. In 1971, Gerard "Gerry" Leeds and his wife, Lilo, founded the company. Their sons Michael and Daniel managed the company in 1988, and launched TechWeb. CMP was sold to United Business Media's Miller Freeman in 1999 and in 2000, the IT portion of Miller Freeman was merged into CMP. In 2008, UBM broke CMP into pieces. "Today, the name is gone and what's left of the company is part of the British media conglomerate, UBM plc," according to Newsday. Recent acquisitions include Semiconductor Insights, LightReading, MediaLive International, Black Hat and Shorecliff Communications. CMP Technology CMP Technology