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…
Mark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://<…
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
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…
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…
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/
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…