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Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; the startup, founded in 2019, develops the Dia browser, now in beta (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million
OpenAI and Perplexity both reportedly looked at acquiring the startup.

Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps healthcare companies compile feedback from patients and doctors, for $6.75B including debt (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/44c9959f-a3e2-41a6-941b-c4ddaf731067

Demo: TOSense -- What Did You Just Agree to?
Xinzhang Chen, Hassan Ali, Arash Shaghaghi, Salil S. Kanhere, Sanjay Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00659 https://

Demo: TOSense -- What Did You Just Agree to?
Online services often require users to agree to lengthy and obscure Terms of Service (ToS), leading to information asymmetry and legal risks. This paper proposes TOSense-a Chrome extension that allows users to ask questions about ToS in natural language and get concise answers in real time. The system combines (i) a crawler "tos-crawl" that automatically extracts ToS content, and (ii) a lightweight large language model pipeline: MiniLM for semantic retrieval and BART-encoder for answer relevanc…

Canal says it is in talks to acquire a 34% stake in production and cinema company UGC, with an option to take full control of UGC in 2028 (Melanie Goodfellow/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/canal-plus-negotiations-minority-stake-ugc-1236504148/

Canal+ Enters Negotiations To Acquire Minority Stake In UGC With Option To Buy French Cinema Group Outright In 2028
Canal+ Enters Negotiations To Acquire Minority Stake In UGC With Option To Buy French Cinema Group Outright In 2028

US semiconductor equipment companies Axcelis and Veeco agree to merge in an all-stock deal, creating a combined company with an enterprise value of $4.4B (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

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.

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 ...

Varonis Systems agrees to acquire email security company SlashNext for up to $150M, including retention awards, after buying database company Cyral for ~$25M (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

SAP plans to acquire HR software company SmartRecruiters, with the deal expected to close in Q4; SmartRecruiters was valued at $1.5B in a 2021 funding round (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft launches Microsoft Marketplace, combining Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource in a single destination for cloud tools and AI apps and agents (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-launches-a…

Microsoft Launches a Combined Marketplace for Cloud Solutions, AI Apps and Agents
Starting today, the company is combining both Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource under the aptly named "Microsoft Marketplace" banner.