Spotify will use Checkout.com’s global acquiring services to facilitate payments for the users of its audio streaming subscription service. The companies’ new partnership will see Spotify use Checkout.com’s Intelligent Acceptance, which routes transactions, reduces failures and improves performance, along with its Network Tokens and Authentication...
FuturePay Global Limited has supported the entry of its payments platform into Latin America by integrating Paysafe’s SafetyPay solution. The FuturePay platform connects global merchants’ checkouts to multiple payment solutions, the companies said in a Monday (Feb. 2) blog post. The addition of SafetyPay’s suite...
TransUnion plans to continue extending its business by acquiring the mobile division of RealNetworks. The acquisition will strengthen TransUnion’s communications solutions portfolio and expand its fraud prevention capabilities, the company said in a Monday (Feb. 2) press release. TransUnion has signed a definitive agreement for...
SpaceX has acquired xAI, a move that Elon Musk, the owner of the two companies, said will enable solar-powered, space-based artificial intelligence, in part by using designs and strategies developed around SpaceX’s existing broadband satellite systems. Musk announced the acquisition in a Monday (Feb. 2) update on the SpaceX website, noting that the deal brings...
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. on Monday (Feb. 2) announced it signed an agreement to acquire Tokens.com to establish a unified investment platform merging traditional real estate finance with blockchain-based tokenization. The deal aims to address fragmentation in the financial services market by creating a...
Snowflake and OpenAI have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership aimed at embedding artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into Snowflake’s data platform, as enterprises push to move AI from experimentation into production. Under the agreement, which was announced in a Monday (Feb. 2) news release, OpenAI’s...
Perplexity signed a $750 million, three-year deal with Microsoft that will enable the artificial intelligence startup to use the tech giant’s Azure cloud service, Bloomberg reported Friday (Jan. 30). The deal will allow Perplexity to use Microsoft’s Foundry service to access AI models, according to...
Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup focused on artificial intelligence technology for audio, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Jan. 29), as the company prepares to report fiscal fourth-quarter results later Thursday amid growing scrutiny of its AI strategy. Apple did not disclose financial...
Scoro has acquired Envoice, saying it aims to provide companies with a comprehensive solution for managing projects, work, resources and costs. Envoice’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered bill and expense management platform will continue to operate as a standalone product, complementing Scoro’s professional services automation software, Scoro said in...