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Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-to-acquire-eventbrite-in-500m-all-cash-deal/

Bending Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal
Bending Spoons is acquiring the global event management platform Eventbrite in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $500 million. Eventbrite would become the latest major global brand to join the Bending Spoons portfolio. Last month, the company announced a definitive agreement to acquire AOL, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Bending Spoons also recently completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of Vimeo. “For two decades, Eventbrite has stood at the…

Disney says ESPN is valued at ~$30B and the NFL's 10% equity stake in ESPN valued at ~$3B; Disney has the right to buy back NFL's stake in 2034, per a filing (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

ESPN Valued at $30 Billion As Disney Reveals New Details on NFL Deal
Disney has the right to buy back the NFL's stake beginning in July 2034, with the league holding an option to acquire more of ESPN.

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 1: We have collected a great deal of information about earth and its dominant species, with one important omission. We intend to rectify that deficiency.
DAYNA: And if we agree?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/505 B7B5

🔥Ensuring a Postmark on the Date of Delivery:
To assure a postmark is applied on the same day a document is delivered to the USPS,
individuals must utilize specific retail services.
The final rule outlines the following methods:
Request a Manual Postmark: Customers may present a mail piece at a retail counter and request a "manual (local) postmark". This postmark is applied at the time of acceptance, so the date aligns with the date the USPS took possession…

USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.

I agree with the following but understand why folks would like to be private too!
Fernando Borretti:: "I Wish People Were More Public"
Probably not a popular thing to say today. The zeitgeisty thing to say is that we should all log off and live terrible cottagecore solarpunk lives raising chickens and being mindful. I wish people were more online and more public. I have rarely wished the opposite. Consider this post addressed to you, the reader." --> Read the whol…

Thailand’s endangered ‘sea cows’ are washing ashore – pointing to a crisis in our seas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/thailand-dugong-sea-cow-population-sea-biodiversity-crisis

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi
and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment
following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files

Pam Bondi faces calls to be jailed as bipartisan articles of impeachment are drafted - NewsBreak
Several lawmakers accused Bondi of flouting the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the government to provide full disclosure of the Justice Dep

Filing: Sinclair offers to acquire Scripps for $7 a share in cash and stock, a 70% premium over Scripps' November 21 closing price of $4.12 (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/sinclair-b…

Sinclair Bids to Buy Rival TV Broadcaster Scripps for $7 a Share
Sinclair Inc., one of the largest US TV broadcasters, offered to acquire competitor E.W. Scripps Co. for $7 a share in cash and stock.

Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push its valuation to the range of $350B, up from its $183B valuation after raising $13B in September (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/anthropic-ai-azure-microsoft-nvidia.html

Anthropic valued in range of $350 billion following investment deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
Microsoft announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the AI startup Anthropic.

Sources: the EU Commission wants to decide if any of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, following several major outages (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…