PayPal this week announced plans to acquire the Swedish-based payments hardware company iZettle for $2.2 billion, with a plan to expand its presence in brick and mortar stores thanks to iZettle’s technology. The acquisition will also help PayPal bolster its business across iZettle’s main markets of Europe and Latin America (via Bloomberg).
Notably, the purchasing deal marks PayPal’s biggest acquisition ever and will put it in the hardware market as a direct competitor to small business-focused …περισσότερα