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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SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year
Tobias Mann / theregister - Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank needs to secure $22.5 billion before the end of the year to make good on its commitments to AI partner OpenAI.…
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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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Finnish startup Aisti secures €20M EIB loan to scale bio-based ceiling tile production
ain - Aisti is building a large-scale production facility in Kitee, Eastern Finland, set to begin manufacturing in the second half of 2026.
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Chinese AI Chip Maker Biren Technology Plans $623 Million Hong Kong IPO
Sherry Qin / wsj - Biren Technology, one of China’s “Four Little Dragons” in the graphics-processing-unit sector, aims to raise as much as 4.85 billion Hong Kong dollars.
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SEC Secures Consent Judgments Against FTX and Alameda Executives
Brenda Mary / blockonomi - TLDR: Three former FTX and Alameda executives agreed to permanent antifraud injunctions pending court approval. Ellison faces a 10-year officer-director bar while Wang and Singh each received eight-year bans. Executives allegedly diverted over $1.8 billio…
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Terraform Bankruptcy Admin Sues Jump Trading for $4B Over TerraUSD Collapse: Report
Vince Dioquino / decrypt - Jump is accused of unlawfully profiting from and contributing to the collapse of Terra, in a lawsuit seeking $4 billion in damages.
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Early backer of Personio and Enpal Picus Capital raises €150M in preferred equity from Carlyle AlpInvest
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Picus Capital has secured a capital boost, closing a €150 million preferred equity financing provided by Carlyle AlpInvest.…
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North Korean Hackers Have Stolen $2 Billion in Crypto This Year: Report
Ryan Gladwin / decrypt - Attackers from North Korea have swiped over $2 billion worth of crypto so far this year, accounting for 59% of all stolen funds.
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Coinbase rolls out stock trading, prediction markets and more in bid to become the ‘Everything Exchange’
Ian Allison / coindesk - Coinbase is dramatically expanding the assets available to trade on its platform, including novel cryptocurrencies, perpetual futures, stocks and prediction markets, starting with Kalshi.
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Oracle stock dips 6% on report Blue Owl Capital won't back $10 billion data center
cnbc - The cloud company later said the project was moving forward and "on schedule," but that Blue Owl was not part of equity talks.
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Digital bank Monzo gains a full European banking licence
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - UK-based digital bank Monzo is ready to expand into Europe. The fintech has acquired a full banking licence from the Central Bank in Ireland, as well as from the European Central Bank. Monzo has gone from strength to strength since it launched back in 201…
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Crypto exchange HashKey's shares fall 5% on trading debut in Hong Kong
Sam Reynolds / coindesk - Investors questioned whether Hong Kong’s dominant licensed exchange can turn surging volumes and regulatory advantage into sustainable profits.
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Warner Bros. plans to reject Paramount bid on funding, terms
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Alphabet-owned Waymo in talks to raise $15 billion in funding
cnbc - The funding round would give Waymo a valuation as high as $110 billion, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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Ford takes $19.5 billion charge as it retreats from EVs
Reuters / fastcompany - Ford Motor said on Monday it will take a $19.5 billion writedown and is killing several electric-vehicle models, in the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry’s retreat from battery-powered models in response to the Trump administration’s policies…
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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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Apollo Took Bets Against Software Makers Vulnerable to AI: FT
Shiyin Chen / bloomberg - Apollo Global Management placed bets against the loans of several software makers as it grew increasingly bearish on technology firms vulnerable to artificial intelligence, the Financial Times reported.
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