SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, Appear, Inc., the global leader in innovation and design for future-thinking products, announced it has acquired Crealev, the world’s leading levitation technology company (www.crealev.com). The strategic acquisition of the Netherlands-based Crealev adds to Appear’s portfolio of best-in-class, innovative technologies. Appear is rolling out a number of products [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The fierce competition over the acquisition of eBay Korea and Yogiyo is sweeping through the merger and acquisition (M&A) market in the retail industry. The acquisition of South Korean unit of the U.S. online shopping giant has attracted Lotte Shopping Co., E-Mart Inc. from Shinsegae Group, SK Telecom Co. [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Entertainment, an entertainment arm of Kakao Corp., said Tuesday it has acquired U.S.-based online comic app Tapas and fiction app Radish for US$510 million and $440 million, respectively. The subsidiary of Kakao Corp, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said the latest deals could help [...]
LOS ANGELES, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Acuant, the global trusted identity platform for fraud prevention and AML compliance, today announced the completion of the acquisition of Hello Soda as part of their continued investment and commitment to innovative technology. Hello Soda is a global provider of identity verification and KYC solutions headquartered in the UK with focus on [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Meltwater B.V., a leading global SaaS provider of media intelligence and social analytics, has entered into an agreement to acquire Klear, an Israeli SaaS company and a market leader in the fast-growing influencer marketing space. For the full year 2020, Klear reached revenues of $7.6 million. Excluding earn-out, [...]
DENVER and SAN FRANCISCO, US, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Velocity Global, the leading provider of global expansion solutions, today announced its acquisition of iWorkGlobal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gary D. Nelson and Associates, and a $100 million growth investment from private equity firm FFL Partners. The combined company, under the Velocity Global name, [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe, the company behind K-pop phenomenons BTS, announced Friday a deal to buy a 100 percent stake in American music entrepreneur Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. Under the deal, Hybe — formerly Big Hit Entertainment — will be acquiring the media company, which owns affiliates like SB Projects, founded by [...]
OSLO, Norway, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Meltwater B.V., a leading global provider of media intelligence and social analytics, has entered into an agreement under which it is committed to acquire Linkfluence, a French SaaS company using artificial intelligence to algorithmically mine social media for consumer insights. The Linkfluence acquisition would be Meltwater’s ninth since [...]
Dubai, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Vista Global, the world’s largest On Demand private aviation group, announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Apollo Jets, a leading private aviation provider. Founded in 2008, Apollo has become one of the most prominent and established private aviation providers in the United States, with strong client [...]
Cybeats is a leading edge IoT (Internet of Things) and connected device security company The Cybeats platform defends IoT devices from cyber-attacks in critical facilities like airports, hospitals, power plants, factories, water treatment facilities, as well as automobiles and consumer devices The global market for IoT security is projected to grow at 31.2% CAGR to [...]