Tether acquires a minority stake in MiCA-licensed Spanish crypto exchange Bit2Me and is leading a €30M funding round that will close in the coming weeks
- Tether buys a minority stake and leads a 30 million-euro round in MiCA-licensed Bit2Me to fund EU and Latin-American growth.
Chiliz, which owns digital fan token service Socios, buys a 24.5% stake in soccer club Barcelona's Barça Studios for $100M and will help expand Web3 offerings
Chiliz has acquired a 24.5% stake in Barca Studios, the Spanish soccer giant's digital-content creation arm.
France-based Cegid is merging with Spanish rival Grupo Primavera in a €6.8B all-share deal; the combined company will sell specialized software to digitize SMBs
Financial Times : Source: CEGID Source: CEGID : Cegid enters into a definitive agreement to combine with Grupo Primavera.
Delivery Hero will acquire a ~39.4% majority stake in Spanish delivery app Glovo, valuing Glovo at €2.3B
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Zynga to acquire Chartboost, a mobile programmatic ad service reaching 700M+ MAUs, for $250M in cash; Zynga says deal will help it grow as IDFA changes roll out
CFO says will pressure Q2 and Q3 somewhat and reflected in guidance, expects continued advertising growth regardless $ZNGA Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed : My overall takeaway from #IDFA is that it ...
Spanish bank BBVA says it is shutting down neobank Simple, which it acquired for $117M in 2014, and will move accounts to BBVA USA
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Facebook acquires Spanish cloud gaming startup PlayGiga, reportedly for ~€70M
- Facebook has acquired PlayGiga, a Madrid-based company that specializes in cloud gaming. — Over the past few years, Facebook has been expanding its efforts in gaming.
eBay partners with Spanish bank Santander to offer loans to more than 200,000 SMBs on its platform in UK via Asto, the bank's business bookkeeping app
Santander and eBay have agreed a lending partnership for small businesses as the two groups attempt to combat competition from tech giants and newer digital rivals.
Samsung acquires Spanish network analytics company Zhilabs, which uses AI to monitor carriers' network performance and data traffic across myriad services
Samsung has announced that it has acquired Zhilabs, a Spanish network analytics company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) …