Downtown D.C.-based business journalism company Industry Dive acquired Kentucky-based Mobile Payments Today, a resource site for mobile payments projects and technology news. With this acquisition deal, Mobile Payments Today will continue to publish under its brand until Industry Dive launches Payment Dive on March 1, the new publication Mobile Payments Today’s site would merge into.

“We are always looking to go deeper into markets and this is the right move as we begin to cover the payments industry — an area at the intersection of our current portfolio of publications including banking, retail, grocery, and others,” said Industry Dive CEO Sean Griffey in a press release. “The acquisition of Mobile Payments Today will give us a foothold into the payments market with readers and followers already invested in the topic.”

Financial details were not disclosed. This is Industry Dive’s third acquisition in the last seven months, following its acquisitions of New York-based NewsCred and Boston-based CFO Media Group.

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