Amsterdam-based cloud computing company Nebius is acquiring agentic search provider Tavily. The deal, announced Tuesday (Feb. 10), is designed to combine real-time search infrastructure with Nebius’s artificial intelligence (AI) cloud platform amid rapid enterprise adoption of agentic AI. “This acquisition advances Nebius’s strategy to build...
MrBeast is deepening his involvement in the financial services sector. Beast Industries, a creator-based platform founded and led by the YouTube creator and entrepreneur, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, announced in a Monday (Feb. 9) press release that it acquired FinTech company Step, which is focused on financial literacy and money...
Poland-based parcel locker company InPost has been sold for $9.2 billion (7.8 billion euros). The deal, announced Monday (Feb. 9), was made by an investor group led by FedEx and private equity group Advent International. “FedEx has a global network that powers the industrial economy, and InPost has a strong and successful...
U.K. banking giant NatWest is acquiring wealth manager Evelyn Partners for 2.7 billion pounds (approximately $3.6 billion). Purchasing Evelyn Partners from private equity operations Permira and Warburg Pincus will allow NatWest to bolster its savings and investment business, the bank said in a Monday (Feb. 9) news release. “At a time when the...
Uber is expanding its payments partnership with FinTech platform Adyen. “The expanded partnership reflects Uber’s growing use of Adyen’s global payments platform to enhance performance and offer more alternative payment methods to support Uber’s continued international growth,” the companies said in a Monday (Jan. 9)...
Virgin Media O2, a leading mobile provider in the United Kingdom, has partnered with flexible payment network Affirm to provide hardware financing. This collaboration will allow O2 customers to access Affirm’s pay-over-time options at checkout when purchasing mobile phones, headphones, game consoles and other hardware, the companies said in a Friday (Feb. 6) press release. Affirm will offer...
Checkout and payments company Bolt has teamed with Socure to bolster its identity verification system. “Bolt has built a powerful ecosystem of merchants and consumers, with identity checks embedded directly into checkout,” Socure said in a Thursday (Feb. 5) news release. “By integrating Socure’s RiskOS platform,...
Banco Santander plans to expand its presence in the United States by acquiring the holding company for Connecticut-headquartered Webster Bank for $12.2 billion. The combined business created by the acquisition will be a top 10 retail and commercial bank in the U.S. by assets and...
Experian plans to expand its presence in the mortgage industry by acquiring Own Up, an artificial intelligence-powered mortgage shopping platform. The acquisition will add Own Up’s homebuying guidance and loan capabilities to Experian Marketplace, joining Experian’s existing ecosystem of credit cards, personal loans and auto...