Coinbase buys The Clearing Company, doubling down on prediction markets

Reuters / fastcompany - Coinbase said on Monday it will buy prediction markets startup The Clearing Company, its tenth acquisition this year, as the crypto exchange looks to expand beyond its core digital assets business.Prediction markets let users buy and sell contracts tied t…

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Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40 billion Larry Ellison backing

Lucas Ropek / techcrunch - It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.

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Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) Stock: Private Equity Firms Announce $8.4 Billion Acquisition

Trader Edge / blockonomi - TLDR Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) enters $8.4 billion take-private agreement with Permira and Warburg Pincus Shareholders to receive $24.55 cash per share, representing a 47% premium over Nov. 10 price Singapore’s Temasek joins investor group with Francisc…

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Omnidocs acquires majority stake in Switzerland’s officeatwork to deepen DACH presence

Cate Lawrence / tech - Danish software company Omnidocs has acquired a majority stake in officeatwork, a Switzerland-based provider of document creation solutions with a strong foothold in the DACH region. Omnidocs is a do...

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Cursor's $29 Billion Bet on a Bottleneck It May Be Creating

Robert Brown / implicator - Cursor just paid a premium for a code review startup to fix what it calls the new bottleneck in software development. But a July 2025 study using Cursor's own tools found AI made experienced developers 19% slower. The math gets uncomfortable from there.

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China cements global lead in smart vacuums as Picea acquires Roomba maker iRobot

scmp - Chinese robotics manufacturers are set to cement their dominance in the global smart vacuum market with Picea Robotics’ acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot, after the US firm’s proposed sale to Amazon.com last year fell through due to regulatory hurdles.Ch…

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Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount hostile bid, backs Netflix deal

techspot - Warner Bros. Discovery's board has formally rejected Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid, urging shareholders to stick with Netflix's previously announced acquisition. The decision shuts down Paramount's attempt to wrest control of the media giant j…

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Coursera to Acquire Udemy in $2.5 Billion All-Stock Deal

Jon Swartz / techstrong - Coursera Inc. announced Wednesday it will acquire rival online learning platform Udemy Inc. in an all-stock transaction, creating a combined entity valued at approximately $2.5 billion as the education technology sector consolidates following pandemic-era…

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Warner Bros. plans to reject Paramount bid on funding, terms

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Nvidia acquires Slurm developer SchedMD to enhance its software capabilities

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Nvidia Corp. has acquired SchedMD LLC, a low-profile company that maintains one of the most important open-source tools in the machine learning ecosystem. The chipmaker announced the deal today. The financial terms were not disclosed. SchedMD was founded …

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Amazon sells MOBA March of Giants to Ubisoft

Kris Holt / engadget - Ubisoft is moving deeper into MOBAs after buying March of Giants from Amazon and acquiring the team that made the game. As part of the agreement, Amazon will help promote March of Giants on Twitch. The deal is expected to close on December 16There’s no re…

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ServiceNow Eyes $7 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Armis

PYMNTS / pymnts - Workflow automation platform ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced discussions to purchase cybersecurity startup Armis. The deal, which could be worth up to $7 billion, could be announced in the coming days and comes in the wake of Armis’ preparations for …

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Founders’ Financial Blind Spots: Misreading Burn, CAC And Profitability

Sadhika Agarwal / inc42 - For all the energy, passion and grit founders bring to building companies, the one area that consistently catches even the…

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Tether’s $1.1B All-Cash Bid to Acquire Juventus Rejected by Exor

Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Exor rejected Tether’s $1.1B all-cash offer for its 65.4% controlling stake in Juventus. Juventus shares rose 2.3% to €2.23 after news of the rejected bid became public Tether has accumulated over 10% of Juventus shares since February 2025. Tether se…

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Mollie buys GoCardless in €1.05B deal to serve 350,000+ businesses across Europe

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Dutch payments leader Mollie has struck a landmark agreement to acquire UK-based GoCardless in a deal valued at…

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The case only Netflix can make for buying Warner Brothers Discovery

Anne Marie Squeo / fastcompany - The battle for Warner Brothers Discovery got hotter this week as Paramount launched a hostile bid of $108.4 billion for the company, topping Netflix’s agreement last week to pay nearly $83 billion for the company’s streaming and studio assets. It’s the la…

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