Acquisition

An asset or object bought or obtained, typically by a library or museum.

Source: merriam-webster.com

Is Amazon’s Next Target Warehouse Clubs?
Is Amazon’s Next Target Warehouse Clubs?
January 26, 2018  |  Amazon Acquisitions

Amazon is reportedly eyeing Boxed.com as an acquisition target, with Jeff Bezos inviting the company’s founder and CEO, Chieh Huang, to Amazon’s headquarters this week....

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Square Acquires Entrees On Trays For Caviar
Square Acquires Entrees On Trays For Caviar
January 25, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Square has made a new acquisition in the on-demand food delivery space: 32-year-old Entrees On Trays. Caviar Product Lead Gokul Rajaram told TechCrunch the goal of the...

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Fiverr Acquires AND CO To Equip Freelancers
Fiverr Acquires AND CO To Equip Freelancers
January 25, 2018  |  Gig Economy

Fiverr, the online marketplace that enables companies to hire freelancers, is acquiring AND CO, another startup that provides support tools for freelancers. According to a...

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Vocalink CEO On Making Payments Faster, Sooner
Vocalink CEO On Making Payments Faster, Sooner
January 24, 2018  |  Banking

Call it agility. Or, in a more long-winded fashion, that nimbleness which brings together new and existing rails, melding legacy systems with new layers of...

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Yoox Net-a-Porter Wooed With $3.3B Offer
Yoox Net-a-Porter Wooed With $3.3B Offer
January 22, 2018  |  Retail

The largest shareholder in Italian online fashion retailer Yoox Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP) has put out an offer to buy the shares in the company that...

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Instacart Acquires Canadian Grocery App Startup
Instacart Acquires Canadian Grocery App Startup
January 16, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Instacart is getting into the business of letting grocers create their own mobile apps with its acquisition of Unata, a Canadian company that offers a...

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LendingPoint’s LoanHero Acquisition To Expand Credit Options For 145M Consumers
LendingPoint’s LoanHero Acquisition To Expand Credit Options For 145M Consumers
January 11, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Although the news about LendingPoint’s decision to formally acquire LoanHero is made public today for the very first time, the conversation between the two firms about how they could...

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China’s Didi Buys Uber’s Biggest Latin American Competitor
China’s Didi Buys Uber’s Biggest Latin American Competitor
January 04, 2018  |  Ridesharing

One of Uber’s ridesharing rivals, China’s Didi Chuxing, has acquired Brazilian startup 99, reportedly for around $1 billion. According to TechCrunch, the news comes after...

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Home Depot, Amazon May Be Competing For Acquisition Of XPO
Home Depot, Amazon May Be Competing For Acquisition Of XPO
December 27, 2017  |  Retail

Home Depot is considering the acquisition of transportation, delivery and logistics services firm XPO, a publicly traded company worth $9 billion. XPO offers services for...

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