The bring-it-to-me economy is expanding across all of consumers’ food needs. Restaurant-cooked meals and raw groceries make up a relatively limited portion of all food consumed, with hybrid categories such as meal kits, heat-and-eat meals and catered foods also accounting for a significant percentage. Noting...
FinTech solutions startup Core10 is acquiring financial analytics firm Accrue Technologies to bring new configurable lending and banking applications to community banks and credit unions, according to a press release on Wednesday (Oct. 6). As a combined entity, the company will provide scalable FinTech tools...
National healthcare provider Carbon Health is acquiring remote patient monitoring (RPM) company Alertive Healthcare in a move to offer extended home-based and remote care services, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 5) press release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The tie-up is intended to...
Cloud-based business management platform Sage announced Tuesday (Oct. 5) it acquired U.K.-based SMB accounting proposal management software company GoProposal, the fourth addition Sage has made in the past 12 months. The GoProposal acquisition expands Sage’s U.K. foothold, as the GoProposal team will join Sage’s global...
With online sales outgrowing and steadily cannibalizing their in-store counterparts, it should come as no surprise to see retailers investing in efforts that will make their physical store experiences look and feel a lot more like their apps and websites. In fact, that’s exactly what Gap,...
Regions Bank will buy Sabal Capital Partners, a financial services firm, to boost its lending capacity in the small-balance commercial real estate market, according to a press release. Sabal works as one of the biggest originators of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac small-balance commercial real...
Investment company Untapped Global on Monday (Oct. 4) announced that it’s expanding its partnership with Nigerian mobile payments platform Paga to help small businesses accept digital payments by lowering the cost for merchants to buy a handheld point-of-sale terminal and other digital tools. The companies...
Southeast Asia’s super app Grab is upping its interest in the Indonesian digital payments startup OVO from 39 percent to 90 percent after buying the stakes of Indonesian conglomerate Lippo, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. Lippo was instrumental in launching OVO and the eCommerce startup...
Food delivery platform Delivery Hero has acquired Danish online food delivery marketplace Hungry, the company announced on Friday (Oct. 1). Delivery Hero had previously owned 44 percent of Hungry and has now acquired the remaining 56 percent of the company’s shares as part of this...
