Pearson announced Monday that it has acquired Credly, a New York-based company that enables firms to issue and manage digital badges and credentials to verify workers’ skills.
Pearson, which already had a nearly 20 percent stake in Credly, said the acquisition will expand its presence in the workforce skills sector and add a strong credentialing service…
LWBJ announced last week that it has been acquired by accounting and professional services firm UHY.
“We are very excited to join UHY," said Paul Juffer, Managing Partner of LWBJ. "Our firm has enjoyed significant growth over the past 30 years because of our talented team and wonderful clients. Joining UHY allows us to provide…
Waukee startup AgriSync announced this week that it has been acquired by John Deere. Founded in 2015, AgriSync is a customer service platform for ticketing and remote support built specifically for ag businesses and equipment dealers.
AgriSync has provided an FAQ with more details about the acquisition for its current customers who have questions about…
Collins Aerospace announced earlier this week that it has signed an agreement to acquire digital aviation company FlightAware, which will join its Avionics strategic business unit.
FlightAware is a Houston-based company founded in 2005 that provides real-time and historical flight information. They currently have around 130 employees. The company uses data from air traffic control systems and its…
Des Moines startup FarmlandFinder announced today that it has been acquired by EasyKnock, a residential sale-leaseback platform based in New York.
EasyKnock allows American homeowners to convert their equity to cash by selling the property to EasyKnock while remaining in the home they love as a renter. The acquisition will allow EasyKnock to expand its services to…
Per Mar Security Services, a residential and commercial security firm based in Davenport, has acquired Martin Security Systems of Valparaiso, Indiana.
This deal marks Per Mar’s second acquisition of 2020. In April, the company acquired GT Fire & Security based in Nebraska. Since the start of 2019 Per Mar has acquired a total of six…
Xtreamair, an internet service business operating in western Iowa and headquartered in Cushing, Iowa, has been acquired Nextlink Internet.
Nextlink Internet is a rural-focused provider of high-speed broadband and voice services to residential, business, institutional and governmental customers in Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.
The acquisition is part of Nextlink's expansion of broadband…
Coralville based-company Digital Diagnostics, formerly known as IDx, announced this week that it has purchased 3Derm Systems, a move to expand its AI technology to detect more illnesses.
The acquisition comes as the company rebrands its name to Digital Diagnostics, part of a plan to continue to expand into medical specialties beyond its initial focus…
Des Moines-based Integrated TeleHealth Partners (ITP) has been acquired by Psychiatric Medical Care.
ITP offers outpatient telepsychiatry services in community mental health clinics as well as 24/7 emergency telepsychiatry consultation services in hospital emergency rooms.
"We had certainly heard great things about them [Psychiatric Medical Care] and thought it made a lot of sense for…
West Des Moines-based RosterApps, a provider of airline ground crew scheduling software was recently acquired by ARCOS, a software company in Columbus, Ohio.
The acquisition will combine RosterApps’ airline experience and shiftwork technology with the ARCOS resource management platform to fully automate the scheduling, shift-trading, callout and tracking of flight and ground crew staff.
ARCOS will retain RosterApps…
Involta, the Cedar Rapids-based information technology and consulting company, has purchased BluPrairie in Coralville.
This is Involta’s second public cloud business acquisition in less than a year. In December of 2017, Involta acquired Kadium, a software and technology development company based in Dallas.
In a statement announcing the acquisition on Wednesday, Involta CEO Bruce Lehrman said the…