acquisitions

Nets Looks To Widen European Scope With Finnish Acquisitions

Nets Looks To Widen European Scope With Finnish Acquisitions
Nets Looks To Widen European Scope With Finnish Acquisitions
January 09, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Denmark-based payments platform Nets is acquiring two Finnish companies, Poplatek and its spinoff Poplapay, to enhance its payments capabilities and better serve merchants across Europe,...

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Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
January 03, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has acquired a Ukraine-based company called AI Factory, to help the social media app provide a new type of...

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Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
December 26, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

One can almost feel it in the bones: the excitement to come in the world of payments in 2020, as innovation sparks new business models...

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PayPal CFO Says Appetite For Acquisition Will Continue Into 2020
PayPal CFO Says Appetite For Acquisition Will Continue Into 2020
December 23, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Payments company PayPal recently acquired Chinese payment platform GoPay, and it wants to continue to complete such deals, according to a report by The Wall...

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Smartphone App Truecaller Ventures Into Business FinTech Before IPO
Smartphone App Truecaller Ventures Into Business FinTech Before IPO
December 23, 2019  |  B2B Payments

As it ponders an IPO in the next two years, Sweden’s caller ID firm Truecaller has been piloting FinTech products to offer credit to small...

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F5 Adds To Portfolio With $1B Shape Security Acquisition
F5 Adds To Portfolio With $1B Shape Security Acquisition
December 20, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

To add protection from targeted fraud, automated attacks and botnets to its portfolio of application services, F5 will acquire fraud and abuse prevention company Shape Security....

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Top News In Payments: Facebook Is Developing Its Own OS; PayPal Acquires 70 Pct Stake In China’s GoPay
Top News In Payments: Facebook Is Developing Its Own OS; PayPal Acquires 70 Pct Stake...
December 20, 2019  |  News

In today’s top news, Facebook is developing its own operating system to increase its independence, and PayPal is acquiring a 70 percent stake in China’s...

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PayPal Closes On GoPay Acquisition, Enters China
PayPal Closes On GoPay Acquisition, Enters China
December 19, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

For PayPal, eyeing growth and eyeing new markets, the gaze is, at least in part, turned eastward. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Gojek To Take Strategic Stake In Blue Bird Taxicab Company
Gojek To Take Strategic Stake In Blue Bird Taxicab Company
December 16, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Indonesian delivery app Gojek has announced it will buy 5 percent of taxicab company Blue Bird, in an effort to stay competitive with rivals like...

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