Twitter Acquires OpenBack

Acorns Acquires EarlyBird

May 15, 2025

Financial Services

Acorns has acquired EarlyBird, a family-focused investment gifting and digital memory platform. EarlyBird will shut down and customer accounts will be closed on June 23, while founders Jordan Wexler and Caleb Frankel join Acorns to help build out the Acorns Early product; financial terms were not disclosed.

TopSource Worldwide Acquires Blueback Global

November 1, 2022

Staffing & HR

TopSource Worldwide has acquired Blueback Global, a California-based provider of employer of record, multi-country payroll, entity set-up and entity management services. The deal brings Blueback founder Arden Ng and his team into TopSource, expands service delivery locations (US, Nicaragua, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea) and adds entity services to TopSource's platform, creating a combined business serving ~1,600 clients across 90+ markets.

Influitive Corporation Acquires PostBeyond

December 8, 2021

Software

Influitive Corporation acquired PostBeyond, a venture-backed SaaS employee advocacy and social selling platform, in a deal announced December 8, 2021. The acquisition brings employee advocacy capabilities into Influitive’s customer advocacy and online community platform to accelerate product development, broaden engagement offerings, and drive growth.

MessageBird Acquires Pusher for $35M

December 16, 2020

Software

Amsterdam-headquartered MessageBird has acquired London-based real-time web technologies company Pusher for $35 million. The acquisition brings Pusher's 25-person team and real-time in-app messaging, push notifications and developer-facing APIs into MessageBird to expand its omnichannel communications platform.

Twitter Acquires Squad

December 11, 2020

Media & Entertainment

Twitter has acquired Squad, a small consumer social app known for screen-sharing, video chat and co-watching features. The Squad team will join Twitter to bring audio/video and screen-sharing capabilities into Twitter’s product; Squad said it would shut down the standalone app to focus on building inside Twitter.

Infobip Acquires OpenMarket from Amdocs for ~$300M

November 11, 2020

Telecommunications

Infobip has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OpenMarket from Amdocs for approximately $300 million. The deal combines OpenMarket's U.S. mobile messaging scale with Infobip's global footprint, creating a cloud communications player with a combined revenue run-rate above $1 billion and the ability to process more than 14 billion customer interactions per month.