by Andy Day | May 8, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Vice Media has acquired Brooklyn experiential events company Villain in a bid to bolster its live offering to advertisers. Villain whose industrial sized 15,000ft “raw” venue is based near Vice’s head offices in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg area employs 12 people and...
by Andy Day | May 8, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Nokia has acquired California startup SpaceTime Insight, an Internet of Things company that provides machine-learning powered analytics tech and IoT applications to large energy and transportation corporates like FedEx, Singapore Power and Union Pacific Railroad. The...
by Andy Day | May 7, 2018 | Blog
We have a three year plan we’re in the middle of executing We’ve just hired a new Managing Director I might be interested in a couple of years when I can get a better valuation We always have companies sniffing around I’m not interested No! These are all typical...
by Andy Day | May 7, 2018 | Blog
Acquiring a company can be a long process, not only do you have to kiss a lot of frogs, but contacting an owner for the first time about acquisition and knowing what to say can be fraught with problems. Many “not for sale” businesses are likely to give a competitor...
by Andy Day | May 4, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Square, the payments platform, has acquired website building service Weebly for $365 million. “This is a huge building block,” CEO Jack Dorsey said. “We can now offer our sellers an easy way, with minimal hassle, to sell both offline and online. All they have to...
by Andy Day | May 3, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Macy’s the American department store chain has acquired Manhattan based retail concept store Story. The company bills itself as a retail concept that takes the point of view of a magazine, changes like a gallery and sells things like a store. Every four to eight...
