Partnerships / Acquisitions

Partnerships / Acquisitions
DraftKings, FanDuel May Merge
June 14, 2016

Regardless of your opinions on its legality, daily fantasy sports gave rise to a boom market in digital transactions like most startups only dream about. However, after a few months of rough waters, it seems like the two biggest names in the daily fantasy market...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Walmart Feeds On The Go, Starbucks Sips Tea With AB InBev
June 10, 2016

Randy Newman probably doesn’t get a lot of play in boardrooms around the retail sector, but that doesn’t mean that companies haven’t taken the message behind his hit “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” to heart. In fact, the tighter the margin between winners and...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
What’s Next For Staples And Office Depot?
June 01, 2016

One of the reasons the Staples and Office Depot merger was shot down was the very reason the two companies were interested in making the deal in the first place: It would’ve created the largest, bar none, office supply brand in business today. Now that...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences
May 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Mitek Enables Mobile Account Opening
May 26, 2016

Mitek, which focuses on mobile capture and identity verification software, said on Wednesday (May 25) that it has teamed up with Avoka, which works with frictionless digital customer acquisition across financial services, forging an alliance through which the former’s Mobile Fill integrates with the latter’s...

Uber Pairs With Foursquare For Address Data
May 26, 2016

Foursquare and Uber have found a new way to benefit each other’s end goal: getting someone to their destination. The duo announced a new partnership that will allow Uber’s app to tap into Foursquare’s location data in order for users to be able to simply...

Viacom, Amex Partner On Predictive Commerce
May 18, 2016

Viacom and American Express have partnered on a TV advertising deal that’s focused on better understanding consumer purchasing intent. The partnership is aimed at combining Amex’s data capabilities with Viacom’s predictive analytics data targeting engine in order to create a new product called Vantage Intent,...

CA Technologies, CNN Pair On Political Data App
May 02, 2016

CA Technologies has a new partner in the mainstream media world: CNN. The duo have paired up on a new initiative that combines two factors that each of the companies specialize in: data and politics. This newly launched app, built with CA Tech’s software, dives...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
ACH Payments Come To Salesforce
April 19, 2016

Payments technology provider linked2pay said Monday (April 18) that its Bank Centric Payments platform has been integrated with Chargent, the processing solution included in the Salesforce AppExchange. Chargent has been live since 2009. In a press release, linked2pay noted that this payments gateway is geared...