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Yelp acquires Hatch, which charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments, for $300M (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/yelp-buy-ai-agent-startup-300-million<…

Yelp to Buy AI Agent Startup for $300 Million 
Recommendation app Yelp on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire AI agent startup Hatch for $300 million, or roughly 12 times the startup’s annual recurring revenue. Hatch charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments. Yelp, which has a $1.8 billion market capitalization, said it plans to operate Hatch as a standalone business as well as

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
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https://open.spotify.com/track/3hMC0FWwtnjvF25s3EJC79

Wauwatosa got a bike pump track last year and now Milwaukee will be getting one.
#Milwaukee

31st & Galena Park
This project will make improvements to the site known as 31st & Galena Park, a 1.2-acre parcel in the Walnut Hill neighborhood.

Today we are adding the remaining eight to our “Winning The House” campaign:
Jonathan Nez (AZ-2)
Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-3)
Sean McCann (MI-4)
Jamie Ager (NC-11)
Chaz Molder (TN-5)
Shannon Taylor (VA-1)
Elaine Luria (VA-2)
Rececca Cooke (WI-3)
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Primary Wave Music plans to acquire Kobalt, one of the world's largest independent music publishing companies, from Francisco Partners, creating a ~$7B company (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/primary-wave-to-acquire…

Primary Wave to Acquire Kobalt, Creating $7 Billion Company
Primary Wave Music announced a 'definitive' agreement to acquire Kobalt, combining two of the world's largest independent music companies.

Uber agrees to acquire SpotHero for an undisclosed sum, to offer parking reservation for events and at venues and airports; SpotHero was last valued at $290M (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/uber-acquiring-spothero.html

Uber acquiring parking app SpotHero as it moves beyond ride-hailing and food delivery
Uber said it plans to offer a parking reservation experience powered by SpotHero for events and at venues and airports.

Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/italys-poste-launches-12-bln-…

Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K of AMD's MI355 chips, in a bid to "diversify to other chips" as "we have a lot of Nvidia chips" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ADT agrees to acquire Origin Wireless for $170M to integrate advanced AI motion classification into its popular home security suite starting in 2027 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

HCLSoftware, a subsidiary of Indian IT company HCLTech, agrees to acquire business intelligence company Jaspersoft from Cloud Software Group for $240M in cash (Urvi Malvania/Financial Express)
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/i…