Elsevier Acquires bepress

epresspack Acquires TheNewsMarket

September 24, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

epresspack has acquired TheNewsMarket, including its San Francisco office and Ahmedabad hub, with the deal taking effect on July 25. The acquisition brings a 22-person team, TheNewsMarket brand, and a portfolio of global clients (including adidas, Lamborghini, Kia, CNH, IMF, Asics, and Wynn), enabling epresspack to establish a foothold in the United States and accelerate its international expansion and SaaS offering for communications professionals.

Bending Spoons Acquires Issuu

July 19, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Italian technology company Bending Spoons has completed the acquisition of Issuu, the Palo Alto–headquartered digital publishing platform. Bending Spoons said it will leverage its platform technologies and expertise to expand Issuu's reach and product capabilities; Issuu counts more than one million creators and marketers and reported ~100 million unique users per month.

impact.com Acquires Pressboard

March 15, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

impact.com acquired Pressboard, a Vancouver-based analytics and reporting platform for branded content, to expand its partnership management offering and provide publishers with enhanced measurement and monetization tools. Pressboard will join impact.com's publisher suite alongside Trackonomics to create a more comprehensive solution for publishers, brands, and agencies.

Clarivate Acquires ProQuest for $5.3 Billion

December 1, 2021

Software

Clarivate plc completed its acquisition of ProQuest, a global software, content, data and analytics provider for research and learning institutions, for $5.3 billion (including repayment of ProQuest debt). The deal was first announced in May 2021 and expands Clarivate’s research intelligence platform with ProQuest’s curated content and SaaS solutions.

diacriTech Acquires Flexpub and oLibrary.org

March 19, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

diacriTech has purchased Flexpub and the oLibrary.org portal to expand its SaaS publishing capabilities and distribution reach. The deal integrates Flexpub's browser-based eBook rendering, marketing and direct-to-reader sales tools and oLibrary's open-access distribution portal into diacriTech's XEditPro platform to create a more complete end-to-end publishing solution.

Elsevier Acquires Parity Computing Inc.

July 30, 2019

AI & Machine Learning

Elsevier has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Parity Computing Inc., a San Diego-based AI company that provides high-accuracy entity resolution and disambiguation for scientific, technical and medical (STM) content. The acquisition will integrate Parity's machine learning, NLP and semantic technologies into Elsevier's research products (including Scopus) to deepen analytics and improve researcher discovery and decision-making.