The combined entity aims to operate as a one-stop shop for the financial needs of SMBs, and the acquisition points toward potential consolidation in the space as competition stiffens.

Consolidation could be the next chapter for primary care startups to drive home their relevance and impact in US healthcare. The primary care market has seen a flurry of activity from startups lately.

Despite the consolidation of features and platforms, Wear will still be lagging behind Apple Watch on several fronts. Google will need to interest developers to create apps, appease customers with concerns about data collection, and convince existing Fitbit and Tizen OS loyalists to migrate to the new platform.

More on this: Google is mobilizing the consolidation of Wear OS, Fitbit, and Tizen under its new Wear platform. Google and Samsung will codevelop software to run on hardware created by Samsung and possibly other OEMs, while Fitbit will contribute its fitness and health tracking services.

A White House fact sheet reveals the impetus for the order is the accelerated corporate consolidation across various industries. This, in turn, has resulted in a lack of competition and led to monopolies that are driving up prices for consumers.

Digital Ad Market Consolidation Continues as Players Shuffle. For several years, we’ve reported on consolidation in the US digital ad market, including on the Facebook-Google “duopoly” and the addition of Amazon into a “triopoly” of digital advertising. As discussed above, Google is losing some share to Amazon.

Media and entertainment consolidation seems to be the hottest trend this spring, as the news comes directly on the heels of WarnerMedia and Discovery announcing their merger earlier this week.

Consolidation between digital health apps should also help improve the virtual care experience on both the provider and patient end. Most docs (86%) say the rise of telehealth amplified their interoperability and integration challenges, which compound an already heavy admin burden.

European trading apps will increasingly clash as they expand across Europe, making the saturated market ripe for consolidation. Bux will face tough competition in the UK, where consumers have access to a wide range of options, including eToro, which added 5 million users globally in 2020 to reach 20 million, or Freetrade, which grew from 230,000 users last October to 500,000 in March.

The increasing number of telehealth M&As in the past year suggests virtual care companies are realizing consolidation, rather than independence, will be key to long-term sustainability. Telehealth providers like Doctor on Demand and MDLive have fused with other companies.

The Biden administration is gearing to implement antitrust laws to regulate consolidation in the healthcare industry—and UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Change Healthcare is already facing scrutiny. After the American Hospital Association lobbied US regulators to examine the deal, citing that it threatened healthy competition in the market, the DOJ began a probe into the transaction earlier this year.

One place where those efforts could eventually yield savings for the organization is its branch footprint: Truist is working on a consolidation that will see a cumulative total of 800 branch closures by Q1 2022. So far, 374 of those closures have been completed, bringing Truist’s overall footprint to 2,556 branches as of the end of Q1.

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If TD does decide on an acquisition, it’ll fit neatly within the ongoing trend of consolidation among regional US banks to compete on a larger scale. Such mergers have become increasingly popular as smaller banks seek to drive cost synergies and scale to invest more significantly in technology.

eMarketer principal analyst Nicole Perrin hosts a new “Behind the Numbers” show called “The Ad Platform,” a platform to discuss all things advertising. In the first episode, Perrin sits with vice president of forecasting Monica Peart and forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom to discuss US digital advertisers’ budgets. Consolidation is the name of the game as publishers continue to devote dollars to the duopoly and the new behemoth in town.

eMarketer principal analyst Lauren Fisher joins fellow principal analyst Nicole Perrin to talk about recent coverage from The Wall Street Journal about how Google came to have the biggest digital ad business. Then they discuss ad tech consolidation and a handful of recent video-focused deals, including Roku’s acquisition of DSP dataxu and Xandr’s purchase of SSP Clypd.

Amazon represents just one instance of the massive amount of consolidation happening among healthcare incumbents and entrants alike:. In just the past couple of years, Amazon went from dabbling with online pharmacy services to holding multiple pieces of the healthcare pie.

The birth of this new, integrated telehealth giant should incite further consolidation in digital health. The $2 billion-plus merger will heat up competition among other telemedicine giants like Teladoc and MDLive—both of which have been involved in M&As of their own in the last year.

Executives at Revolut and Bunq have even acknowledged that the industry could be ripe for consolidation. Historically, incumbents have kept their distance due to sky-high valuations, but lower price tags on smaller neobanks that have lost ground to leading competitors like Starling could make them prime acquisition candidates.