{"id":105,"date":"2026-05-21T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/?p=105"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:56:18","slug":"square-acquires-weebly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/square-acquires-weebly\/","title":{"rendered":"Square acquires Weebly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2013 April 26, 2018 \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weebly. Square will pay a mix of cash and stock of approximately $365 million, which includes Square restricted stock units for Weebly\u2019s founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing. This consideration includes Weebly\u2019s estimated net cash. Weebly is a San Francisco\u2013based technology company that provides customers with tools to easily build a professional website or online store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>Source: https:\/\/squareup.com\/us\/en\/press\/square-to-acquire-weebly<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How David Rusenko sold Weebly to Square in 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hjksEvmwqs0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2013 April 26, 2018 \u2013&nbsp;Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weebly. Square will pay a mix of cash and stock of approximately $365 million, which includes Square restricted stock units for Weebly\u2019s founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing. This consideration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachre24.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}