BAE Systems, a British multinational defence, security, and aerospace company, today announced it has reached a deal to buy Techmodal, a UK-based data consultancy and digital services company. The acquisition will help strengthen the company’s technology and data portfolio. In an announcement, BAE […]
Private equity firm Blackstone is betting big on family-tree, consumer genomics and personalized medicine. On Wednesday, Blackstone said it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com from private equity rivals Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity, Permira, and other equityholders for a total of $4.7 billion. […]
Uber announced on Thursday it is buying the UK-based taxi tech startup Autocab, which sells booking and dispatch software to private hire firms, in a move that will allow the taxi app to reach customers where it does not currently operate. The […]
Telehealth sector continues to see massive growth as patients avoid hospital and doctor visit to prevent exposure to the deadly coronavirus. One of the leading companies in this space is Teladoc, a New York-based provider of virtual doctor visits provider and […]
Collaboration software provider Atlassian announced it has acquired Sweden-based asset management tech Startup Mindville for an undisclosed sum. Mindville is an asset and configuration management company that creates a place for companies to store their information about their assets and infrastructure. Mindville […]
eBay, the world’s most popular auction site and eCommerce platform has agreed to sell its classified ads business to Norway’s Adevinta in a deal worth $9.2 billion, the two companies said on Tuesday. The deal creates the world’s largest online […]
Aiming to boost its market share in automotive and 5G chipmaking, semiconductor maker Analog Devices announced on Monday it would buy rival Maxim Integrated Products Inc for about $21 billion in the largest U.S. deal this year, according to a […]
Hong Kong has been making headlines this past week after the Chinese unanimously passed a national-security law that prohibits any Hong Kong citizen or resident from acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security. […]
SUSE, a Linux distribution company controlled by private equity firm EQT, has agreed to acquire Rancher Labs, an open source container software startup tech startup that helps organizations run software in virtual containers across many servers. The financial terms of the deal […]
Slack has acquired software as a service startup company Rimeto, the company announced Wednesday. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is a natural fit with Slack. Channels make it easy to find the information you […]
Uber has bought San Francisco-based food-delivery service Postmates for $2.65 billion in stock, the two companies announced in a joint statement Monday. Postmates is the fourth-largest delivery food service in the U.S. Last month, we told you about Uber’s attempt to […]
Revenued, a Jersey City, NJ-based financial technology startup announced today it has acquired Sky Bridge Business Funding to further establish the company’s vision of helping small businesses have access to the tools and solutions needed for growth. Founded in 2017, Sky […]
Late last year, we wrote about Mirror, when the fitness tech startup founded by Harvard grad, raised $34 million to revolutionize the in-home fitness experience. Mirror is the world’s first nearly invisible, interactive home gym featuring live and on-demand fitness […]
Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire California-based autonomous-car developer Zoox, in a deal that values the self-driving startup at a little over $1.2 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. With this acquisition, Amazon joins a list of […]
Apple has acquired San Francisco-based device management startup Fleetsmith. The company makes it easier to deploy iPhones and Macs at workplaces. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. Even though Apple offers enterprise-grade features and security on its devices, including […]
Late last year, we wrote about Austin, Texas-based OJO Labs after the artificial intelligence real estate startup acquired real estate software startup RealSavvy. The acquisition enables OJO Labs to speed up its execution to deliver exceptional experiences for consumers and the […]
Gilead Sciences announced Tuesday it would buy a 49.9% stake in biotech startup Pionyr Immunotherapeutics for $275 million. The investment would strengthen Gilead Sciences’ cancer portfolio by securing access to two promising drugs. As part of the agreement, Gilead Sciences will […]
It’s been over four months since we last wrote about Daimler-backed car service startup RepairSmith. Back in January, RepairSmith acquired CarDash, a service-based startup with a shared mission to bring car owners convenient car repair and maintenance service. The Los Angeles-based […]
As part of its plan to become a dominant player in food delivery, Uber reportedly offered to buy Grubhub in a deal that could value the company at $6.9 billion. If successful, the deal would give Uber Eats 55% of the […]
NetApp, one of the leading tech companies in cloud data services, announced that it is acquiring Spot for public cloud cost optimization and compute management tools. The deal is expected to close in the first half of NetApp’s fiscal year. The […]
