Swipii was a loyalty platform for small independent shops that replaced paper stamp cards and single-brand point schemes with card-linking. Customers earned cashback or rewards automatically when they paid with...
Neil Shah became CEO of Slack in 2023, inheriting a business that had cycled through two leaders since Salesforce acquired it for $27.7 billion in July 2021. The question was...
HotelTonight let travelers book unsold hotel rooms at steep discounts on the same day. Founded in 2010, the San Francisco company grew fast on venture capital and sold to Airbnb...
KORE Wireless, a public IoT provider trading on the New York Stock Exchange as KORE, acquired Cerberus Telecom in 2021. The deal closed and Cerberus's assets and operations were folded...
Mike Ashley is the British billionaire founder of Frasers Group, the retail conglomerate formerly known as Sports Direct. He bought Newcastle United in May 2007 and sold it in October...
The United Kingdom produced five notable artificial intelligence unicorns in the decade after 2010. Every one of them has since been acquired by a foreign company, seen its public valuation...
In March 2020, London insurtech Zego acquired Drivit, a local startup that used phone sensors to track how people drive. The deal was structured as an acqui-hire and tech purchase....
On June 27, 2022, Siemens AG agreed to buy Brightly Software, a U.S. provider of cloud-based asset and maintenance management software, for $1.875 billion in cash. The seller was private...
