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Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…

Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
Sony will own 80% of Peanuts Holdings after acquiring the 41% stake in the entity from WildBrain.

Coursera plans to acquire rival online education platform Udemy in an all-stock deal valued at $2.5B, combining two of the largest US learning platforms (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coursera-udemy-merge-deal-v…

We desperately need to figure out how to flip this: how to lift up the creators of wonderful things, instead of rewarding whoever can acquire power over their creations.
I don’t think we know how to do this. There’s a vast spectrum of schemes for fixing this, ranging from capitalist versions of “intellectual property” to Marxist “just end capitalism” notions to various versions of “easy, society should just be different.” I find them all lacking, both in theory and in practice. This is a problem that’s existed for millennia, not decades, and I’m not convinced we have a clear solution.
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Sources: Sinclair builds an ~8% stake in E.W. Scripps and is vying to acquire the local TV broadcaster; the companies held constructive talks in recent months (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/sincl…

Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/cybereason-levelblue-acquistion/

LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason in latest cybersecurity industry consolidation
LevelBlue announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in extended detection and response platforms and digital forensics. 

Enshittification starts here
"Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI"
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-…

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/05h54sjd1

ServiceNow in advanced talks to acquire Armis at around $7 billion valuation
The Israeli cybersecurity unicorn, which raised $435 million at a $6.1 valuation just last month, was preparing for a potential IPO by 2027.

PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE (Paramount Skydance Corporation)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paramount-launches-all-cash-tender-offer-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery-for-30-per-share-302635412.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p56#a251208p56

Sources: Cowboys near trade for Bengals' Wilson https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46844886/sources-cowboys-acquire-logan-wilson-trade-bengals

🤔
"Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino"
#Arduino #Qualcomm

Pinterest agrees to acquire tvScientific, a CTV ad platform that automates and optimizes ad buying; tvScientific was founded in 2020 and has raised ~$60M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/exclusive-pinterest-to-acquire-ctv-ad-co…

Exclusive: Pinterest to acquire CTV ad company tvScientific
It's Pinterest's first acquisition since 2022.

Learning-To-Measure: In-context Active Feature Acquisition
Yuta Kobayashi, Zilin Jing, Jiayu Yao, Hongseok Namkoong, Shalmali Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12624 https://

Learning-To-Measure: In-context Active Feature Acquisition
Active feature acquisition (AFA) is a sequential decision-making problem where the goal is to improve model performance for test instances by adaptively selecting which features to acquire. In practice, AFA methods often learn from retrospective data with systematic missingness in the features and limited task-specific labels. Most prior work addresses acquisition for a single predetermined task, limiting scalability. To address this limitation, we formalize the meta-AFA problem, where the goal…

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/merger-deals/2025/12/15/cvent-300m-goldcast-buy

Scoop: Cvent paid nearly $300M for Goldcast
Boston-based Goldcast had raised around $38 million in venture capital.

Cowboys to acquire Bengals LB Logan Wilson in exchange for 7th-round pick https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/04/cowboys-to-acquire-bengals-logan-wilson-in-exchang…

Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://<…

AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.

Raiders acquire draft picks in exchange for WR Jakobi Meyers https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-acquire-draft-picks-in-exchange-for-wr-jakobi-meyers

Dynamically generated tilt of isocurvature fluctuations
Saarik Kalia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11803 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11803

Dynamically generated tilt of isocurvature fluctuations
Light scalar fields acquire isocurvature fluctuations during inflation. While these fluctuations could lead to interesting observable signatures at small scales, they are strongly constrained on large scales by cosmic microwave background observations. When the mass of the scalar is much lighter than the inflationary Hubble scale, $m\ll H_I$, the spectrum of these fluctuations is flat. Meanwhile, if $m\gg H_I$, the fluctuations are suppressed. A blue-tilted isocurvature spectrum which exhibits …

Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/apple-nears-deal-to-acquire-ta…

Apple nears deal to acquire talent and technology from computer vision startup Prompt AI
Apple is in late-stage talks with startup Prompt AI to bring on the company's employees and its computer vision technology.

Preferential accretion of binary stars
Daniel Dalsgaard, Michael Kuffmeier, Troels Haugb{\o}lle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11805 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Preferential accretion of binary stars
The attracting properties of gravity enable matter present in cores to collapse into stars with seven orders of magnitude change in space and time making modelling of star formation a challenging multi-scale process. To circumvent this scale problem stars are replaced by a sub-grid sink particle at a much larger scale. Sink particles are created above a threshold density and acquire mass and momentum through accretion. In models where binary star systems form and migrate to separations of a few…

Sources: DAZN is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in US regional sports broadcaster Main Street Sports Group, formerly Diamond Sports Group (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…

I like old cars. I like that they aren't "Smart". Shit, I like it when I can manually roll down a window.
I'm less enthused by the quirks they acquire due to previous dumbass owners. Especially when it's likely due to lack of proper maintenance.
So the '97 Ranger had a sudden leak when partner got to work yesterday. She sent me a pic. We thought it was prob coolant, maybe a hose starting to fail. Leaving work, she found the battery was flat dead. Total f…

Logan Wilson traded: Cowboys acquire veteran linebacker from Bengals, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/logan-wilson-traded-cowboys-acquire-veteran-li…

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

Hybrid-grained Feature Aggregation with Coarse-to-fine Language Guidance for Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
Wenyao Zhang, Hongsi Liu, Bohan Li, Jiawei He, Zekun Qi, Yunnan Wang, Shengyang Zhao, Xinqiang Yu, Wenjun Zeng, Xin Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09320

Hybrid-grained Feature Aggregation with Coarse-to-fine Language Guidance for Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
Current self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) approaches encounter performance limitations due to insufficient semantic-spatial knowledge extraction. To address this challenge, we propose Hybrid-depth, a novel framework that systematically integrates foundation models (e.g., CLIP and DINO) to extract visual priors and acquire sufficient contextual information for MDE. Our approach introduces a coarse-to-fine progressive learning framework: 1) Firstly, we aggregate multi-grained featu…

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) (About Netflix)
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p57#a251205p57

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/merger-deals/2025/12/15/cvent-300m-goldcast-buy

Scoop: Cvent paid nearly $300M for Goldcast
Boston-based Goldcast had raised around $38 million in venture capital.

Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, raised $30M at a $400M valuation, bringing its total raised to $74M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/prezent-raises…

Prezent raises $30 million to acquire AI services firms -- starting with founder's other company | TechCrunch
Months after raising $20 million, enterprise-focused AI presentation startup Prezent is raising $30 million for acquisitions.

Netflix will buy some of Warner Bros. Discovery’s most valuable media portfolio for nearly $83 billion in a cash-stock deal, the two companies said Friday.

The streaming giant will acquire some of WBD’s most valuable media properties,
including its film and TV studio,
HBO and HBO Max.
WBD’s cable networks, including the news giant CNN, are to be spun off in advance of the deal.
-- That plan was announced in June.
Two other companies
— Comcast and Pa…

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in $83 billion cash-stock deal
Largest streaming network says it will purchase Warner Bros.’ studios and streaming assets after winning a bidding war with Comcast and Paramount. 

CaRT: Teaching LLM Agents to Know When They Know Enough
Grace Liu, Yuxiao Qu, Jeff Schneider, Aarti Singh, Aviral Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08517 https://

CaRT: Teaching LLM Agents to Know When They Know Enough
Many tasks require learned models to strategically gather relevant information over multiple rounds of interaction before actually acting on a task. Strategic information gathering requires models to know not only how to effectively acquire information, but also when to stop gathering information and make a decision, in order to avoid overthinking or getting derailed when acting. In this paper, we formalize this problem and introduce Counterfactuals and Reasoning for Termination (CaRT), an appr…

"Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. in a disruptive deal valued at $82.7B"
wow.

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

An investment consortium including BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft plans to acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7f0457a-df43-44a2-bfa8-4e3d7dbcf2b8

Dallas Cowboys acquire New York Jets star Quinnen Williams to fortify ailing defense https://www.pff.com/news/dallas-cowboys-acquire-new-york-jets-star-quinnen-williams-to-fortify-ailing-defense

Trajectory Conditioned Cross-embodiment Skill Transfer
YuHang Tang, Yixuan Lou, Pengfei Han, Haoming Song, Xinyi Ye, Dong Wang, Bin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07773 https:/…

Trajectory Conditioned Cross-embodiment Skill Transfer
Learning manipulation skills from human demonstration videos presents a promising yet challenging problem, primarily due to the significant embodiment gap between human body and robot manipulators. Existing methods rely on paired datasets or hand-crafted rewards, which limit scalability and generalization. We propose TrajSkill, a framework for Trajectory Conditioned Cross-embodiment Skill Transfer, enabling robots to acquire manipulation skills directly from human demonstration videos. Our key …

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
https://cyberscoop.com/dataminr-threatconnect-acquisition/

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The acquisition will combine Dataminr’s AI-powered analysis of public data with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities, creating what the companies describe as “Client-Tailored intelligence” that adapts to individual customer needs. The […]

From Poisoned to Aware: Fostering Backdoor Self-Awareness in LLMs
Guangyu Shen, Siyuan Cheng, Xiangzhe Xu, Yuan Zhou, Hanxi Guo, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05169

From Poisoned to Aware: Fostering Backdoor Self-Awareness in LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) can acquire deceptive behaviors through backdoor attacks, where the model executes prohibited actions whenever secret triggers appear in the input. Existing safety training methods largely fail to address this vulnerability, due to the inherent difficulty of uncovering hidden triggers implanted in the model. Motivated by recent findings on LLMs' situational awareness, we propose a novel post-training framework that cultivates self-awareness of backdoor risks and ena…

Rams acquire CB McCreary in trade with Titans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46746696/rams-acquire-cb-roger-mccreary-titans-draft-pick-swap

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…

Curiosity-Driven Co-Development of Action and Language in Robots Through Self-Exploration
Theodore Jerome Tinker, Kenji Doya, Jun Tani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05013 https://

Curiosity-Driven Co-Development of Action and Language in Robots Through Self-Exploration
Human infants acquire language and action co-developmentally, achieving remarkable generalization capabilities from only a minimal number of learning examples. In contrast, recent large language models require exposure to billions of training tokens to achieve such generalization. What mechanisms underlie such efficient developmental learning in humans? This study addresses this question through simulation experiments in which robots learn to perform various actions corresponding to imperative …

Statistical Shape Modelling of the Nasosinusal Anatomy
Michele Bertolini (POLIMI), Silvia Tonghini (POLIMI), Marco Rossoni (POLIMI), Marina Carulli (POLIMI), Susanne Weise (TU Dresden), Christian Jan Baldus (POLIMI), Giorgio Colombo (POLIMI), Monica Bordegoni (POLIMI)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09713…

Statistical Shape Modelling of the Nasosinusal Anatomy
The human nose exhibits a huge variation in shape among individuals. All these variants alter the airflow through the nasal cavity and can impact how we smell odors. To acquire a better understanding of physiological and pathological functioning, it is important to study the effects of these modifications. SSM, or Statistical Shape Modelling, is a widely used methodology for considering morphological differences within a population. In the literature, only a few studies analyze nasal anatomy in…

Wow, this passed me by.
"Netflix will acquire Warner Bros. including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO."

Rumble agrees to acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether (Billy Gray/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/b…

Jakobi Meyers trade details: Jaguars acquire disgruntled WR from Raiders in deadline deal https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/jakobi-meyers-trade-details-raiders-jaguars-deadline/7654b8e74dc2971b45e9eb49

Source: HR software company Gusto paid ~$600M to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to SMBs; Guideline raised $340M and had a $1.15B valuation in 2021 (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/sources-g…

Sources: Gusto paid $600M to acquire Guideline, plans to divest customers linked to rivals | TechCrunch
While the HR tech Guideline was last valued at $1.15 billion, the sale will likely yield a profit for most investors.

R2RGEN: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially Generalized Manipulation
Xiuwei Xu, Angyuan Ma, Hankun Li, Bingyao Yu, Zheng Zhu, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08547

R2RGEN: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially Generalized Manipulation
Towards the aim of generalized robotic manipulation, spatial generalization is the most fundamental capability that requires the policy to work robustly under different spatial distribution of objects, environment and agent itself. To achieve this, substantial human demonstrations need to be collected to cover different spatial configurations for training a generalized visuomotor policy via imitation learning. Prior works explore a promising direction that leverages data generation to acquire a…

eBay agrees to acquire Tise, a social marketplace for secondhand fashion and interior design items that has raised $45M in funding, for an undisclosed sum (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/ebay-to-acquire-social-marketplace-platfor…

eBay to acquire social marketplace platform Tise | TechCrunch
eBay’s acquisition of Tise indicates that it's looking to modernize its platform to attract younger shoppers, expand its social commerce tools, and build a stronger presence in the sustainable retail market.

Ravens acquire Titans LB Dre’Mont Jones for fifth-round pick: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775103/2025/11/03/ravens-titans-trade-dremont-jones/

OpenAI agrees to acquire 10GW of chips from Broadcom and co-design custom GPUs with Broadcom to run its AI models; sources: the deal is worth multiple billions (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-broad…

Montreal-based music and video distributor Stingray Group is acquiring TuneIn for up to $175M, in a deal expected to close by the end of 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/tunein-acquired-by-stingray-music/

Streaming audio platform TuneIn to be acquired by Stingray Music
November 11, 2025 - Stingray will acquire TuneIn for up to $175 million, expanding its global reach in digital audio streaming and advertising.

Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance (Saeed Azhar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/go…

Warburg Pincus agrees to acquire German industrial software company PSI for over €700M, offering €45 per share; PSI's stock closed at €33.20 on October 10 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/warburg-pincus-buy-germanys-psi-over-7…

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business (Mark Haranas/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/tcs-bu

TCS Buys Salesforce Star Coastal Cloud For $700M To Create ‘Top Five Salesforce’ Firm
Tata Consultancy Services acquires Salesforce partner Coastal Cloud and ListEngage to boost AI revenue, American customers and Salesforce business.

Trade DK? Go get Skattebo? Three players you should trade, three to acquire https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46449288/fantasy-football-week-5-pickups-trade-candidates

Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Robinhood Set to Enter Indonesia Market as Retail Investors Boom
Robinhood Markets Inc. is set to enter the Indonesian market after signing deals to acquire two local brokerages, underscoring the appeal of the Southeast Asian country’s growing ranks of retail investors.

JioHotstar plans to invest $444M over five years to acquire and produce content from South India, as it plans to more than double its 200M subscriber base (Praveen Paramasivam/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sports/tether-submits-offer-buy-italian-soccer-clu…

Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/intel-nears…

Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7904647c-91ea-4e90-b496-5d249a7a5d91

Jets acquire CB Jarvis Brownlee Jr. from Titans: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6655684/2025/09/23/jets-titans-trade-jarvis-brownlee/

Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova, with a deal likely valuing SambaNova below its $5B valuation in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/intel-in-talks-to-acquire-ai…

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.

A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire NSO Group in a deal valued at "several tens of millions of dollars" (Omer Kabir/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx

NSO to be acquired by U.S. investors, ending Israeli control of Pegasus maker
Hollywood producer Robert Simonds leads the deal, subject to Israeli and U.S. regulatory review.

Sources: Stripe is paying ~$1B to acquire Metronome, and the deal is expected to be predominantly cash; PitchBook: Metronome was valued at $470M in February (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

Scoop: Stripe Is Paying $1 Billion To Acquire Billing Startup Metronome
The acquisition will double Metronome’s valuation in less than a year, sources tell Upstarts Media. And it’s all about AI software growth.

Sources: Ravens deal for Titans edge rusher Jones https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46838701/ravens-trade-titans-edge-rusher-dremont-jones

Marvell announces a deal to buy Celestial AI for at least $3.25B, expected to close in Q1 2026; the price can rise to $5.5B if Celestial hits revenue targets (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/mrvl-earnings-q3-2026-acquires-celestial-ai.html

Marvell to acquire Celestial AI for as much as $5.5 billion
The deal is an aggressive move for Marvell to acquire complimentary technology to its semiconductor networking business.

SAG-AFTRA puts off taking a position on the Netflix-WBD deal but says a deal benefiting its members "must result in more creation and more production, not less" (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/sag-aftra-reacts-netflix-wb-merger-123…

SAG-AFTRA Says It Will Conduct “Complete And Thorough Analysis” Of Netflix-WB Deal Before Taking A Position, But Warns Merger “Raises Many Serious Questions”
SAG-AFTRA says Netflix's plans to acquire WB raise "serious questions" but that the union will conduct a "thorough analysis" before weighing in

Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/09/bvnk-acquisition-coinbase-mastercard-stable…

Exclusive: Coinbase and Mastercard have both held advanced talks to buy stablecoin startup BVNK for around $2 billion
Stablecoins have become a buzzy sector over the past year amid a red-hot IPO from the stablecoin giant Circle and recently passed legislation in Congress.

The WGA, which routinely opposes media mergers, says the Netflix-WBD deal must be blocked, and the Producers and Directors guilds express concern over the deal (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/wga-opposes-netflix-warner-b…

WGA Opposes Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal: 'This Merger Must Be Blocked'
The Writers Guild of America has joined other industry guilds in opposing Netflix's proposed blockbuster deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's studios and streaming business.

Cowboys trade deadline deals: Time will tell if blow of trading Micah Parsons is softened after haul

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-trade-dea…

Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/dataminr-threatconnect-acquisition/

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The acquisition will combine Dataminr’s AI-powered analysis of public data with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities, creating what the companies describe as “Client-Tailored intelligence” that adapts to individual customer needs. The […]

IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears…

Sources: Chargers add Penning to help O-line https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46849451/sources-chargers-trade-saints-ol-trevor-penning

SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated sales of $2.3B last year, for $5.38B in a deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026 (John Revill/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/abb-se…

Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.

Naver agrees to acquire Dunamu, which runs South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in a $10.3B all-stock deal; Upbit has 80% market share in South Korea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/naver-to…

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold WS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for $17B in September (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Source: xAI is set to spend $18B to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; Elon Musk said in July it would have 550K chips (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-xai-mem

Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ffa0dabd-7e87-4327-b788-73e8fb598de3

Sources: Veeam, which offers data backup and disaster recovery tools, is in advanced talks to acquire data privacy management software maker Securiti for ~$1.8B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/insigh…

Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/microsoft-discusses-custom-chips-broadcom

Microsoft Discusses Custom Chips With Broadcom
Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like Microsoft race to acquire more semiconductors and increase their AI products. Nvidia lords over the

Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (Scott Woody/Metronome)
https://metronome.com/blog/important-company-update

Important Company Update | Metronome blog
A new chapter for modern monetization and global payments. Metronome has signed a definitive agreement to join Stripe.

ServiceNow announces a deal to acquire identity security startup Veza, sources say for between $1B and $1.5B; Veza had a private valuation of $808M in March (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/servicenows…

ServiceNow’s $1 Billion-Plus Acquisition Aimed at Winning Agent War
Dealmakers apparently did not get much of a break over the Thanksgiving weekend, as a flurry of recent merger announcements showed. In just the last day, The Information broke the news that Marvell Technology was buying photonics startup Celestial for billions of dollars and Anthropic was making ...

Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland (Yamini Kalia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vodafone-buy-german-clo…

OpenAI agrees to buy Poland-based Neptune, which makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training; the transaction will be in stock (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/openai-agre…

Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/met…

Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/francisco-partners-buy-jamf…

Sources: data integration company Fivetran is in talks to acquire data management company dbt Labs in a deal valuing the combined entity at between $5B and $10B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-startup-fi…

Data Startup Fivetran In Talks to Buy Dbt Labs in Multibillion Dollar Deal
Fivetran, a startup used by companies to manage and prepare data for analytics and artificial intelligence, is in talks to buy data management companydbt Labs, according to people with direct knowledge of the deal. The deal would combine two data companies that are facing competition from ...

OLX Group, an online marketplace owned by Prosus, agrees to acquire La Centrale, a French auto classifieds platform, for $1.3B in cash, expected to close in Q4 (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M ; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/paxos-fordefi-acquisition-crypto-wallet-defi/

Stablecoin issuer Paxos to acquire wallet startup Fordefi for more than $100 million
Paxos provides crypto infrastructure for major institutions like PayPal and Mastercard.

Canadian PE firm Novacap agrees to acquire Integral Ad Science, which provides digital ad measurement and verification, in a deal valuing IAS at about $1.9B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-24/…

Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/w…

Warner strikes ‘landmark’ deal with Suno; settles copyright lawsuit against AI music generator
The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies; Firms will collaborate ‘on next-generation licensed AI music’…

Sources: Adobe held talks to acquire Synthesia, which makes AI tools that generate video avatars of people, for ~$3B; the startup was valued at $2.1B in January (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/adobe…

Adobe Discussed $3 Billion Acquisition of AI Video Startup Synthesia
Adobein recent months held talks with Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars of people, to buy the startup for about $3 billion, a premiumfrom the startup’s $2.1 billion valuation in a January financing, according to a person with ...

Bitcoin-treasury company Strive, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, will acquire Semler Scientific, a medical device company that has a bitcoin treasury, for $1.34B (Ateev Bhandari/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

Crypto trading firm FalconX agrees to acquire 21shares, one of the main crypto ETF managers, for an undisclosed sum; 21shares had $11B in assets in September (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/fin…

Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's 8th acquisition in 2025 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/coin…

Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Adobe plans to acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use rises, for $1.9B in cash, paying $12 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/d…

UK bank Lloyds agrees to acquire UK startup Curve, which offers digital wallets, in a deal set to close in H1 2026; Sky News reported Lloyds is set to pay £120M (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Adobe nears a $1.9B deal to acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use increases, paying $12 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…