A Thanksgiving Dealmaking Sprint Helped Netflix Win Warner Bros.
Michelle F Davis / bloomberg - The Netflix Inc. plans that clinched the deal for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. started to shape up around Thanksgiving.
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Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 Billion
Steve Vegvari / iphoneincanada - Netflix reveals its plans to acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion USD (around $115.4 billion CAD).The post Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 Billion first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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Meta Acquires AI Wearables Startup Limitless, Kills “Pendant” Sales and Sunsets Rewind App
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Meta has acquired AI wearable startup Limitless, immediately halting sales of its $99 Pendant AI companion device and sunsetting the Rewind Mac app while blocking EU access.The post Meta Acquires AI Wearables Startup Limitless, Kills “Pendant” Sales and S…
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Netflix wins the bidding war for Warner Bros.
Dominic Preston / theverge - Netflix is poised to purchase Warner Bros.’ studio and streaming business after being selected as the winner of the bidding war for the media giant. The two companies will now move forward into exclusive deal talks, TheWrap reports, likely including a $5 …
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OpenAI acquires AI tooling provider Neptune to enhance its model training workflows
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to buy Neptune Labs Inc., a startup with a platform that identities areas for improvement in artificial intelligence models. The companies didn’t disclose the acquisition terms. Bloomberg reported that OpenAI plans t…
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Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVL) Stock: Surges on Record Q3 Revenue and Bold AI Acquisition
Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Marvell hits record Q3 revenue, surpassing forecasts with AI growth boost. Celestial AI deal powers Marvell’s leap in data infrastructure innovation. Data center demand drives Marvell’s strong FY2026 growth projections. Sale to Infineon lifts earning…
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Anthropic acquires developer tool startup Bun to scale AI coding
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OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential.
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Wayve doubles down on data with Quality Match acquisition
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Wayve, the London-based autonomous driving software unicorn, has acquired data quality assurance startup Quality Match as it pursues data accuracy as a cornerstone of its strategy. Based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Quality Match specialises in interpre…
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Adobe to buy Semrush for $1.9 billion, sending marketing platform's shares up 70%
cnbc - Adobe said Semrush's search engine and marketing tools can help brands engage and grow customers, especially in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Berlin’s Integral boosts total funding to €12 million and strengthens capabilities with cleverlohn acquisition
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Integral, a Berlin-based AI-powered services company innovating accounting, taxation, and payroll for SMEs, today announced the acquisition of cleverlohn, a digital payroll and HR provider in Germany. Additionally, the company announced new funding from G…
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Meta Did Not Create an Illegal Monopoly with Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - A U.S. judge ruled today that Meta did not illegally create or maintain a monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp.The post Meta Did Not Create an Illegal Monopoly with Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Cloudflare is buying Replicate to pull 50,000 AI models into its platform
Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Cloudflare has agreed to acquire Replicate, a San Francisco-based AI platform that helps developers deploy and run AI models. The deal is expected to close within two months, pending standard closing conditions. Cloudflare stated the acquisition will allo…
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Zilch nets $175M as eyes "strategic" M&A
John Reynolds / tech - Zilch, the UK consumer lending fintech, has netted over $175m in an equity and debt funding round as it eyes acquisition targets. The funding round was led by KKCG, the Czech investment group, with pa...
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Rumble to buy German cloud computing firm Northern Data for $767M
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Video-sharing platform Rumble, known for hosting Truth Social, is set to transform its future with the acquisition of…
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Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B
Rebecca Szkutak / techcrunch - Google announced its intent to acquire cloud security company Wiz in March and the deal is now on track to close in early 2026.
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CoreWeave Acquires AI Development Platform Marimo in Latest Strategic Expansion
Jon Swartz / techstrong - CoreWeave Inc. said on Friday it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Marimo Inc., the company behind open-source marimo notebook, a reactive Python development environment designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) and data applicati…
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Canva’s new ‘Creative Operating System’ is actually a marketing workspace
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Canva is introducing new digital marketing and video-editing tools, built around what the company is calling a “world-first” design-focused AI model. These launches are part of an overhaul to the design platforms Visual Suite workplace products, which Can…
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Bending Spoons raises $710M at $11BN, one day after buying AOL
John Reynolds / tech - Bending Spoons, the Italian tech conglomerate which typically acquires and tries to revive tech brands, has raised $710m in an equity fundraising round at an $11bn valuation, it said today.The announc...
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Bending Spoons to acquire early internet pioneer AOL
John Reynolds / tech - Bending Spoons, the acquisitive Italian software conglomerate, is acquiring AOL, one of the internet’s most well known early companies.Bending Spoons is buying AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by priva...
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