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Fintech giant Stripe has acquired stablecoin platform Bridge in a $1.1bn deal, the deal marks the largest acquisition for Stripe in the cryptocurrency industry.

SINGAPORE – Ride-hailing company Grab has acquired restaurant reservation platform Chope to help in pursuing new opportunities for sustainable growth.

Gbikea, A south korean micromobility Gcooter operator acquiring feature-sharing platform ZET to increase their market share.

IBM said that it was acquiring data observability services firm Databand.ai as part of its strategy to bolster hybrid cloud and AI services.

IBM announced acquiring Randori, a Boston-based offensive security startup to help organizations bolster their cyber defenses.

United Robotics Group, a German distributor of service robots, is acquiring Softbank Robotics Europe to cooperate in marketing robots.

Twitter acquired OpenBack, an engineering-led startup working to improve push notifications on mobile devices with patented edge computing technology.

Microsoft snatches up world of Warcraft developer and all of its studios. the Activision Blizzard studio has now been acquired by Microsoft.

DeepMind, an AI research lab and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., acquired the MuJoCo physics engine for robotics research and development.

Microsoft announced that it has acquired Ally.io, a software service that helps companies measure their progress against OKR (objectives and key results).