Intuit’s TurboTax announced on Monday (March 2) that it is buying personal finance website Credit Karma for about $7.1 billion in cash and stock, according to reports. The Silicon Valley-based Credit Karma, which was founded in 2007, said it has in excess of 100 million...
Docusign, which holds weight in the electronic signature field, has struck a deal to acquire Seal Software for $188 million in cash, according to GeekWire. Seal Software, founded in 2010, advertises itself as a leader in enterprise contract analytics. The company works with others, such...
Insurance-leaning digital payments solutions vendor One Inc has been acquired by growth-oriented private equity firm Great Hill Partners, according to a release on Wednesday (Feb. 26). Great Hill‘s managing partner Matt Vettel and partner Nick Cayer will join One Inc’s board as a result of the...
Checkout.com, which works in global payment solutions, has made an acquisition in French payment company ProcessOut, the company said in an emailed press release. Financial terms of the deal were not released. The acquisition will mark a first for Checkout, which raised a Series A...
Ride-hailing company Lyft has acquired Halo Cars, an advertising startup that displays ads on top of vehicles, according to a report from Axios. The move illustrates the ride-hailing industry’s attempts to pull revenue from sources besides its core business, especially since both Lyft and Uber...
In a consolidation move for the brokerage space, investment bank Morgan Stanley has announced it will acquire electronic trading platform E-Trade for $13 billion, according to a report by CNBC. Morgan Stanley will pay $58.74 per share in an agreement that will consolidate $3.1 trillion...
There’s the lure, the deal – and then, perhaps, the “what now?” As has been widely reported, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has made an offer to buy eBay. The initial focus on Wall Street and beyond may...
New day, new multi-billion-dollar deal within the payments space. To that end, Far Point Acquisition – which operates as a “blank check” company that focuses on financial technology deals – said on Thursday (Jan. 16) that it would buy Global Blue, a payments company based...
Tech company Prosus and Takeaway.com are both bidding to take over the British delivery service Just Eat. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), Prosus criticized its rival, saying that Takeaway.com’s bid holds “significant risks” for shareholders. In the meantime, Takeaway’s stock price has reached a point in...
