NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announced that private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) have reached a definitive agreement to acquire Ancestry® from Silver ...

Blackstone has agreed to acquire Ancestry, a provider of digital family history services, for an enterprise value of $4.7 billion. The sellers include Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity and Permira.

Ancestry Chief Executive Deb Liu discusses the genealogy company's expansion plans, creating culture in a remote work environment and putting guardrails around user-generated historical content.

In October, 23andMe announced that approximately 14,000 23andMe users’ accounts were breached; according to the company, the stolen data — which some hackers tried to sell via online forums — ...

Digitized newspaper archives and hyperlocal historical sources can help you understand how your ancestors lived. By J. D. Biersdorfer Long before the internet made it easy to share the nuances of ...