Tag: Acquisition

March 7, 2023

Google Ads has introduced helpful updates in the last month. These include automatic assets, value-based bidding, and interface design enhancements. Automatically Created Assets Google has long offered advertisers automated assets for responsive search ads. Advertisers can enable this option for […]

October 11, 2022

Since its inception, the global pandemic has continued to have a long-lasting impact on how we buy, work, and also how our businesses operate.  As such, user behaviour has naturally evolved, leading to developments in customer experience (CX) to meet […]

July 25, 2022

The long predicted on-shoring trend is starting to show in mergers and acquisitions. Accenture will acquire Eclipse Automation. Eclipse provides customized manufacturing automation and robotics solutions from its headquarters in Cambridge. Financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed. “Technology, data […]

June 16, 2022

In case current conditions have you confused, a recession is being predicted imminently. As a result, offers of employment to new graduates — especially foreign students who can’t fight back — and people whose skills are so in demand, they […]

March 9, 2022

Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform Bynder, headquartered in Amsterdam, announced the acquisition of UK-based GatherContent in a press release on March 3, 2022. Post-merge, Bynder has approximately 500 employees globally. Alice Deer, CEO and co-founder of GatherContent, will take charge […]

January 26, 2022

Since Microsoft announced that it intends to buy acquire Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal — the company’s biggest buy in history – there has been considerable speculation about Microsoft’s intentions and whether or not this is really about […]

December 14, 2021

Taking steps to expand its e-fulfillment network, Miami-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System Inc. said earlier this week it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Industry City, Calif.-based omnichannel fulfillment and logistics services provider. Ryder officials […]

December 7, 2021

B2B data provider MeritB2B, announced its acquisition of True Influence last week. The company sees the acquisition as creating a “powerful and unique” to create — bringing together MeritB2B’s data, analytics and performance marketing capabilities with True Influence’s intent-based, AI-driven […]

December 6, 2021

WPP’s latest moves demonstrate how agency holding companies are beefing up e-commerce capabilities and addressing related issues to meet brand needs as the pandemic continues to accelerate consumers’ e-commerce adoption. The acquisition of CCG will provide WPP with a software […]

November 30, 2021

Omaha, Neb.-based Werner Enterprises, a lobal freight transportation and logistics services provider and the nation’s seventh-largest truckload carrier with more than $2.4 billion revenue last year, announced yesterday it has acquired Monroe, Conn.-based NEHDS Logistics LLC, a premium final mile […]

September 3, 2021

Sitecore, a digital experience management software provider, has announced the acquisition of Reflektion, an AI-powered digital search platform. Reflektion’s software is designed to understand and predict patterns, context and needs of shoppers. Sitecore’s latest acquisition, its fourth of this year, […]

August 11, 2021

Redmond, Wash.-based Paymentus, which says it completed about 200 million bill payments last year, provides its Instant Payment Network to clients in the healthcare, utilities, financial services and insurance industries, among others. Its services let clients offer digital bill payment […]

March 10, 2021

The acquisition follows PayPal’s recent expansion of its digital wallet capabilities, including enabling buying, selling and holding cryptocurrency. Read More on Payments Dive

March 10, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday announced a deal to acquire flash storage firm Nimble Storage, once viewed as a darling of Wall Street, for US$12.50 a share in cash, or $1 billion. HPE also agreed to assume or pay out […]

December 2, 2016

Fitbit is close to completing an acquisition of smartwatch brand Pebble, according to sources for both The Information and The Verge. If the reports are true, Fitbit would acquire Pebble’s assets, such as its operating system, but see the Pebble […]

November 1, 2016

The recently released spreadsheet hacked from Salesforce board member Colin Powell’s email names multiple companies that Salesforce was at least considering acquiring. In the aftermath of the initial reports, it’s worth noticing that there were at least two enterprise resource […]

July 25, 2016

Yahoo was the front door to the web for an early generation of internet users, and its services still attract a billion visitors a month. But the internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday’s great idea, and Yahoo has now […]

March 26, 2015

Payment gateway Realex Payments has been sold to Global Payments. Realex Payments processes over 29 billion in payments for thousands of online and mobile businesses worldwide and will continue to do this as part of Global Payments, a provider of […]