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.

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 — ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

(KUTV) — Blackstone announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Ancestry from Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity, Permira, and other equity holders for a total enterprise value of ...