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upGrad acquires KnowledgeHut

Aligned with its ambitious international expansion plans, global edtech leader upGrad has announced it has acquired KnowledgeHut, the leading international edtech company with operations in the GCC.

Zip acquires Spotii

Leading global Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) company, Zip, today announced the full acquisition of Dubai-based BNPL provider Spotii. The strategic investment will see Zip build on its initial 20 per cent i...

SOUQ.com to Acquire Wing.ae

SOUQ.com has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Wing.ae, a marketplace for merchants and couriers in the UAE, providing innovative mobile and web-based user-friendly deli...

VFS Global Acquires Visa Service Provider TT Services

VFS Global has completed on 22 August 2017 the acquisition of visa service provider TT Services (TTS). The transaction enables VFS Global to leverage on core competences and brands and to further enha...

BlackBerry Acquires Movirtu to Improve Adoption of BYOD and COPE

BlackBerry Limited, a leading provider of mobile communications, announced today that it has acquired Movirtu,

BlackBerry Acquires Mobile Security Vendor Secusmart

BlackBerry, a leading provider of mobile communications solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire Secusmart GmbH, a leader in high-security voice and data encryption and anti-eavesdropping s...

Dropbox Acquires Loom and Hackpad

Cloud storage giant Dropbox has announced the acquisition of two startups – photo management app Loom, and collaboration service Hackpad.

Google Acquires UK Artificial Intelligence Startup

Google has made its largest European acquisition yet with the purchase of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence start-up based in London.

Square Buys Photo-Sharing Platform ViewFinder

Mobile payments company Square has recently begun expanding to become a platform for people to sell goods as well.