acquisitions

Wirecard To Buy China’s AllScore To Expand Cross-Border Licenses
Wirecard To Buy China’s AllScore To Expand Cross-Border Licenses
November 05, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Wirecard announced that it is set to gradually acquire all shares in Bejing-based AllScore Payment Services so it can expand into cross-border licenses. After the...

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Food Fight Ensues As Takeaway Sweetens Just Eat Bid To Challenge Prosus
Food Fight Ensues As Takeaway Sweetens Just Eat Bid To Challenge Prosus
November 04, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

In the battle to acquire London’s Just Eat, Amsterdam’s Takeaway.com has changed the structure of its offer as it fights a competing bid from South...

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Etsy’s Q3 Results Show GMS, Revenue Boost After Reverb Deal
Etsy’s Q3 Results Show GMS, Revenue Boost After Reverb Deal
October 31, 2019  |  Earnings

Etsy announced strong Q3 earnings results, with total revenue up 31.6 percent year over year, and gross profit increasing more than 24 percent. “During the...

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Just Eat Rejects $6B Buyout Bid From Prosus
Just Eat Rejects $6B Buyout Bid From Prosus
October 23, 2019  |  Delivery

London food delivery service Just Eat turned down a $6.2 billion offer from Amsterdam investment firm Prosus, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday (Oct....

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Naspers Makes £4.9B Bid For Just Eat
Naspers Makes £4.9B Bid For Just Eat
October 22, 2019  |  Retail

With a hostile £4.9bn offer for the United Kingdom’s Just Eat, South African tech conglomerate Naspers has aimed to gate-crash a merger of two of the...

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Foreign Investors Spent $60B Buying UK Tech Firms Since Brexit Vote
Foreign Investors Spent $60B Buying UK Tech Firms Since Brexit Vote
October 17, 2019  |  Brexit

Since the Brexit vote three years ago, foreign buyers have announced $60 billion in deals for U.K. tech companies. Data from Bloomberg shows that the...

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Intel Acquires Canada’s Smart Edge For $27M To Advance 5G 
Intel Acquires Canada’s Smart Edge For $27M To Advance 5G 
October 16, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Intel is acquiring the software business Smart Edge for $27 million from Pivot Technology Solutions based in Toronto, Intel said in a blog post on...

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Private Equity Firm Thoma Bravo To Acquire UK’s Sophos For $3.8B
Private Equity Firm Thoma Bravo To Acquire UK’s Sophos For $3.8B
October 14, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

British cybersecurity software company Sophos is being acquired for $3.8 billion by U.S. private equity firm Thoma Bravo, Bloomberg reported on Monday (Oct. 14). Sophos’s...

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Uber Moves Into LATAM Grocery Delivery With Cornershop Buy
Uber Moves Into LATAM Grocery Delivery With Cornershop Buy
October 11, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Uber announced that it’s buying a majority stake in grocery delivery company Cornershop. CNBC is reporting that with the purchase of the Latin American company,...

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