Category: Mergers and acquisitions

76 articles

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Infomaniak Goes Public Without Losing Control
by Natalia Nowak · 30 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Infomaniak is going public on the SIX Swiss Exchange through a reverse takeover, structured so its foundation keeps control of the company.
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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Jul 2026 · 13 min read
Thirty deals in six months: the full H1 2026 hosting M&A map, the multiples behind it, and the debt clocks that decide who transacts in H2.
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Green Olive Tree Acquires ZebraHost for $1.1 Million, Nearly Doubling in Size
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Green Olive Tree acquired ZebraHost for $1.1 million, nearly doubling its revenue, in a founder-retirement deal that shows how small-host consolidation works.
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The Balance Sheet Behind Your Renewal Invoice: Who Owns the Hosting Industry, and What It Owes
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Jul 2026 · 14 min read
We mapped the hosting industry's owners and debt against our renewal-price index: the operators machines cannot price are the ones with liens on the renewal premium.
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Automattic Has Taken Over WebHosting.com. The Plan Is Still a Coming-Soon Page.
by Natalia Nowak · 3 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Automattic has taken control of WebHosting.com, a premium one-word domain formerly held by AT&T, now showing an Automattic-branded "coming soon" page.
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Google’s TPUs Get a Blackstone-Funded Cloud of Their Own
by Natalia Nowak · 30 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
Google and Blackstone are building a separate, majority-Blackstone company to sell TPU capacity directly to outside customers. Late-June C-suite hires show how fast they are moving.
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Ireland’s Largest Independent Host Joins a Fast-Growing European Roll-Up
by Natalia Nowak · 16 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Blacknight, Ireland's largest independent web host, has joined Your.Online's European group while keeping its brand and leadership unchanged.
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CyberFolks and Shoper Agree to Merge Into a Single Listed Entity Valued at €1 Billion
by Natalia Nowak · 25 May 2026 · 3 min read
CyberFolks will absorb Shoper through a share exchange, forming a single Warsaw-listed entity valued at approximately €1 billion.
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OpusDNS Acquires fruits.co, Adding Domain Monetization to Its Wholesale Registrar Platform
by Natalia Nowak · 22 May 2026 · 6 min read
OpusDNS acquired fruits.co, bundling wholesale domain registration with EU VAT-compliant aftermarket sales. A clean-build challenger to Tucows OpenSRS
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your.online Acquires Sansec, Adding E-Commerce Security to a 60-Acquisition Group
by Łukasz Nowak · 14 May 2026 · 3 min read
your.online has acquired Sansec, a Magento and WooCommerce security company, marking the Dutch hosting group's first move into specialist e-commerce security tooling.
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