The payment company Square (owned by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey) has acquired the financial firm Afterpay, which provides online installments.<\/p>\n
The deal, the largest in the history of Australian companies, amounted to 29 billion dollars, according to the website Square.<\/p>\n
“Square, Inc. and Afterpay Limited have announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Square has agreed to purchase all issued shares of Afterpay in a recommended manner approved by the court. The estimated value of the transaction is about 29 billion US dollars (39 billion Australian dollars) “, – it is told in the message.<\/p>\n
It is noted that such an agreement will allow companies to better provide attractive financial products and services that expand access to more consumers and bring additional income to sellers.<\/p>\n
“By merging with Square, we will further accelerate our growth in the United States and around the world, offer access to a new category of personal sellers and provide a broader platform for new opportunities and services to our sellers and consumers,” said Afterpay co-founders Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar. .<\/p>\n
The operation is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n
As of June 30, 2021, Afterpay serves more than 16 million consumers and nearly 100,000 sellers worldwide.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the very first tweet went up for auction for almost $ 3 million. Jack Dorsey sold the first message on this social network, which belongs to him personally. The tweet was published on March 21, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":129964,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-129963","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/129963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=129963"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=129963"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=129963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}