Vertice has bought Vendr. The London-based AI procurement company announced on Monday that it has acquired the US software-pricing firm, a deal it says creates the world’s largest procurement intelligence dataset by combining the two companies’ data on what they buy and how they negotiate. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The combined dataset, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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