Watch more: The Digital Shift: Verra Mobility’s Stacey Moser Automakers have spent the past decade polishing and promising visions of a software-defined future for vehicles and drivers. It’s one where cars become intelligent devices, services are activated with a tap, and digital ecosystems can generate...
IBM said on Monday (Dec. 8) it plans to acquire Confluent for about $11 billion in cash for the real-time data streaming company in one of its largest acquisitions in the recent years. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2026, pending shareholder and regulatory...
Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s cross-border payment platform, the companies said in a Monday (Dec. 8) press release. Together,...
Socure acquired Qlarifi to establish what it called “the industry’s first unified identity, anti-fraud and BNPL credit infrastructure.” The combination brings together Socure’s artificial intelligence-first platform for global identity, compliance and risk decisioning and Qlarifi’s real-time buy now, pay later (BNPL) consumer credit database, the...
Payments infrastructure FinTech Stripe signed a definitive agreement to acquire Metronome, a usage-based billing platform for software companies. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison announced the agreement in a Tuesday (Dec. 2) post on X, saying the company will integrate Metronome’s capabilities with the rest of the...
Anthropic has announced what it calls a “significant” expansion of its partnership with Snowflake. The artificial intelligence (AI) company has signed a $200 million agreement with Snowflake that will make its Claude model available via Snowflake’s cloud storage platform to more than 12,600 customers worldwide,...
Finexio and RipplePoint have formed a strategic partnership to offer hospitality operators an integrated accounts payable (AP) automation and expense analytics platform, the companies announced Tuesday (Dec. 2). The move aims to help hotels, resorts and restaurant groups cut operating costs and unlock new AP-driven...
Global data and technology company Experian and United Kingdom RegTech firm CleverChain partnered to provide artificial intelligence-powered global due diligence intelligence to businesses that operate internationally. These due diligence reports, which are now available to Experian clients, deliver contextual intelligence on ethical, reputational, operational and...
Direct-to-consumer furniture brand Cozey has added Klarna’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions to its online stores in the United States and Canada. Cozey’s eCommerce site now enables shoppers to pay using Klarna’s Pay in Full, Pay in 4 or Financing for larger purchases, according...