Examples - how companies use M&A Acquisitions as strategy to compete and grow

Target Corp. agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. by speeding the ... (2017)

Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt,... (2018)

The company uses image recognition software to find works of art that match users’ tastes (2018)

Strategic factors are often more important than purely financial ones. (2018)

Google has just announced that it’s buying wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. The deal should bolster Google’s flagging efforts in wearable ... (2019)

PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for ... (2019)

The week is kicking off with a major piece of M&A in the world of financial technology startups. Today Intuit — the accounting, tax filing and fina... (2020)

Slack is acquiring startup Rimeto to get into the corporate directory business, with plans to operate it as Slack's first additional standalone app. (2020)

MIRROR brings a subscription revenue stream and plenty of cross-sell opportunities between the two fitness brands. (2020)

Wall Street Journal, 2017: “Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens, has agreed to be acquired by Chinese n... (2017)

“We’ve had a lot of smart people who wouldn’t join the company or give us money or advise us because [our business] made no sense to them.” — Mike ... (2018)

Twilio is buying customer data startup Segment for $3.2 billion. Both companies' CEOs spoke to Forbes about why they wanted the match. (2020)

From Wall Streeters to members of the media, it is not uncommon to hear people wax eloquent about Facebook’s high-profile acquisition of Instagram ... (2019)

Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by... (2020)

Spotify said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on p... (2020)