@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe for around $1B; Observe has raised more than $470M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/snowflake-talks-buy-app-monitoring-startup-observe…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDaily Mail owner DMGT strikes a £500M deal with RedBird IMI to buy Telegraph titles, in a deal likely to trigger an in-depth investigation by Ofcom and the CMA (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/22…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBuy, sell or hold? What every NFL team should do before the 2025 trade deadline
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-trade-deadline-2025-buy-sell-hold-teams/
@pre@boing.worldA panel on bitcoin treasury companies.
Because investment law makes it hard for institutions to buy bitcoin in their funds. You can't own BTC in you tax free ISA. So some companies that do hold bitcoin, notably microstrategy, became proxy investments. If you can't hold BTC you could maybe own a company that owns BTC instead.
Microstrategy started because it's ceo realized it's dollar treasury was being debased by dollar printing. So tried buying BTC instead, with fantastic success.
Copycat companies proliferated. They boomed and then busted. One panelist calls that a grift. A way to memeticly pump share price.
A line can be drawn between profitable companies just storing their profit in bitcoin Vs those raising debt to buy without having a profitable business.
Imagine a world transiting from using seashells for money to using gold coins. A company gathers seashells from investors to buy gold coins, which will do better than sea shells. Trouble is the next step where the company pays back it's investors with... More seashells.
If you own shares in the company, you do not own bitcoin. You'll just get more old fashioned bank money.
Still. It's worked as marketing, more people being convinced BTC has value.
If you do buy a treasury company, check it's bitcoin not "digital assets" including shitcoins.
#bitfest #bitcoin #bitcoinTreasuryCompanies
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFL Trade Deadline: Which Teams Are Most Likely to Buy? Latest Intel From Execs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-trade-deadline-which-teams-most-likely-buy-latest-intel-from-execs
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNo, ICE (Probably) Didn't Buy Guided Missile Warheads (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/no-ice-probably-didnt-buy-guided-missile-warheads/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p124#a251022p124
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNFL Trade Deadline: Which Teams Are Most Likely to Buy? Latest Intel From Execs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-trade-deadline-which-teams-most-likely-buy-latest-intel-from-execs
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet agrees to acquire clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75B in cash, and existing debt, as part of its push to dramatically expand AI data centers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/alpha…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialInteresting article about EU car-industry,
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2025/how-buy-european-rules-can-help-save-europes-car-industry
@raysofred@discordian.socialBuy it. Buy it now. #redbubble
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThey have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
3/
@cdarwin@c.imUkraine could buy up to 150 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden,
paid for using frozen Russian assets,
under a deal agreed on Wednesday.
Ukraine already has US-made F-16 and French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The Gripen has long been vaunted as more practical for Ukrainian battlefield conditions
– being built, for example, to take off and land on civilian roads as well as runways
so that it can fight from dispersed locations rather than just airfie…
@benb@osintua.euExclusive: Ukraine pushes for flexibility in using Russian-frozen-asset loan to buy US weapons if needed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/23/exclusive-ukraine-pushes-for-flexibility.html
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Vielen Dank für Eure Spenden zur Unterstützung von #Klimakommunikation und #Wissenschaftsnews. Gemeinsam können wir mehr Informationen auf Deutsch liefern und die englischdominierten
@andycarolan@social.lolWhen did CR2032 batteries get so expensive?! I was going to buy some for an AirTag yesterday but they were like £5.00 for 2 🤔
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Arduino wasn’t valuable because it was just a microcontroller company. It was valuable because it was a commons. And you can’t apply enterprise legal frameworks to a commons without destroying it"
You also can't buy a #commons, at least without destroying it as a commons. The key point about a commons is that it isn't property.
@publicvoit@graz.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA survey of 700 Hollywood insiders: 52% think Netflix will buy WBD, 80% say they use AI in their work, 30% predict Josh D'Amaro as Disney's next CEO, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-21/…
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioMoney can't buy you happiness if you use it wrong.
#ProverbsGoneWrong
#HashTagGames
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaIt's sad that every time you buy a new TV or fridge these days, you have to make sure beforehand that it doesn't include AI and that it doesn't have to be connected to the Internet to function.
And the saddest part: if you ask the salesperson, they have no idea because you're the first person to ask these questions!
#internetofshit
@jake4480@c.imStumbled across this great new d-beat band from Brisbane, EXIT-PLOOM. They just started in 2023, they rip, and their loud, noisy, rough tape 'Duck and Cover' from 2024 is here, to hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdj0BBjX_k
and here, to buy:
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrader Joe's has these 'seasonal' products everyone raves about but they only have them for a hot minute & they disappear until the next year.
TJ's bacon-wrapped scallops: Best thing in the whole store & they run out every time. If I see them, I buy 10 packages.
#firstworldproblems
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI found these in the supermarket the other week and in the interests of science decided to personally be a guinea pig for them. The sacrifices I make.
Anyway imagine a Ferrero Rocher but instead of being rolled up into a ball it's a long thin stick. Yes. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr spoiled ambassador.
I may of course have not quite tasted them correctly, and seeing as science always needs more data points I expect I'll be going out to buy and eat a few more of these.
#KitKat #chocolate #snack
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deRidonkulous: RAM and NVMe are scarce, so server hardware prices have jumped and non-hyperscaler companies sometimes can't buy any. This AI hype is annoying as hell.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialBravo! Well trolled!
@paulwermer@sfba.social @PaulWermer@sfba.social
@UP8@mastodon.social🥃 Edo Kiriko: Shimmering Art for Your Table
#japan
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI took my daughter to buy a car today. The dealership could not run credit report due to AWS outage. She called the bank, they could not approve a large transaction because of the AWS outage. We went to the DMV, they were able to get her a replacement car title, but also mentioned some systems were down. Back to the dealership where they could not do the credit application to buy the car.
In a completely unrelated note, I think I have some ideas for disrupting Capitalism...
@boris@cosocial.caOk so Meetup and Eventbrite are both owned by the same PE firm now.
As I have been saying for many years now … both of those platforms are no go any more.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-eventbri…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging software and digital workflow tools primarily to outpatient and ambulatory sites, for $2.3B (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/11/20/ge-healthcare-…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaThis weekend will be a bit sad. It is the last weekend for the farmers market. We will miss the fresh local products until next May. I made it a point to pay cash so that they don't have a portion go to the credit card company. I go to our local bakery several times a week and buy fresh bread, rolls, and treats. Again, paying cash. When possible, I try to patronize small independent businesses.
Do I pay a bit more? Probably, but there is a huge difference in the quality, and th…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat I mean by that is that I grew up in a world where people built wealth by convincing ever-increasing masses of people to buy ever more wasteful and useless crap: “consumer capitalism.”
Now we live in a world where customers aren’t even where the real money is. You don’t get money from customers; you get it from billionaires and investment firms.
2/
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialShould I buy a refurbed HDD for an offline backup. With BTRFS snapshots. 🤔
@padraig@mastodon.ieIf you are looking for a replacement for RTÉ Pulse (which closes at the end of the year), then I would highly recommend Energy 106 based out of Belfast. They are a former pirate station from the early 00s who now have a proper radio licence and are on DAB Radio and online.
https://energy106.co.uk/
@brian_gettler@mas.toBuy a house so you can spend as much of your waking life as possible in a hardware store.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Für uns alle ist es wichtig, informiert zu sein. #Nachrichten, die vor #Gesundheitsgefahren und #Vermögensrisiken warnen und Fortschritte in
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioBtw I don’t care how much Apple charges for cases, you don’t need to buy them and there’s plenty of cheaper options.
What’s blowing my mind is that you can buy a brand-name wireless optical mouse for less than $10 delivered.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration announced on Monday that
all foreign-made drones and their components
posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States”
and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country.
A fact sheet released by the Federal Communications Commission left some room for exceptions.
The Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security can clear a drone or component fo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump To Announce Navy Will Buy New 'Battleship' (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-hegseth-new-warship-the-battleship-63367854
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p62#a251222p62
@servelan@newsie.social'Betrayal': Ranchers furious as Trump plans to spend US taxes to buy Argentinian beef - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/betrayal-ranchers-furious-as-trump-uses/
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social @pre@boing.worldKitchen Mishap takes us through some bitcoin visualisations.
Max keiser promoted KM to buy, and he learned from antonopolis book. So he started trying to graph it since software for money is scary if there's bugs you can lose lots of other people's money.
He spirals blocks around the years, rendering views of the whole chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #dataVis
@detondev@social.linux.pizzathe president of columbia is currently giving relationship advice on x dot com
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.infoWasn bei #AliExpress los? Viele Non-Bundle-Produkte scheinen sich nicht mehr in den Warenkorb legen zu lassen, sondern nur noch per "Buy now" kaufbar zu sein. :(
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialI'd like to buy one please...
#Wordle
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@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
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I don't buy a lot at Christmas
We don't need Black Friday merch
I don't think that we're religious
We don't even go to church.
All I see is people fighting
When they should be candle-lighting
Make the battles cease
All I want for Christmas, is Peace.
#SongParody
#AllIWantForChristmas
#JoinIn
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlDe volgende klap voor de Europese autofabrikanten en hun voorliefde voor diesel, LNG en waterstof...
China's shift to #ElectricTrucks may reshape global fuel demand (diesel and LNG): "While electric trucks are two to three times more expensive than diesel ones and cost roughly 18% more than LNG trucks, their higher energy efficiency and lower costs can save owners an esti…
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaI don't know what to say :mortysmile:
Don't buy smartshit~
#smartshit #privacy
@…
@jswright61@ruby.socialToo late for this trip: I was looking for a USB charger with an EU (Type F) plug. Seems selection is limited for products that will ship to the US. Any suggestions?
I’ve had good luck with Anker products, and found a charger I liked in their EU store, but when I went to check out that product (and most in their EU store) were not eligible to ship to a US address.
I’ll pick something up in Munich, but it won’t be exactly what I want. Surely there has to be a way to buy online and …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow Makan Delrahim, a top antitrust enforcer in Trump's first term, is helping Paramount buy WBD; sources say he told WBD investors the DOJ may reject Netflix (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…
@threeofus@mstdn.social1/ Money is definitely a serious cause of tension between C and I. I resent the fact that she has so much money in the bank but I’m the one bringing in most of the money on a day to day basis. I’m capital poor but have a decent income and she’s the opposite. This dynamic means that I have to watch what I spend while she continues to buy whatever she wants. To be fair, she does pull her weight on the general outgoings but I resent the fact she has additional cash to throw around that I do…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI must have missed this - Netflix is possibly going to buy Warner Brothers.
My grandparents lived close to the old Republic Studios, and not far from Universal, Disney, Warner (and the secret Lookout Mountain studio.) The area wasn't called "Studio City" for nothing.
I remember one trip to Warner right after Kent State. Our class went to one of those cool viewing studios (the kind one sees in movies) at Warner to see the rough edit (with extra violence!) of The Wil…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPrivacy oversight board finds FBI does not buy real-time location data https://therecord.media/pclob-finds-fbi-does-not-use-real-time-location-data
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, Mohamed is scheduled for a verification call with us. Please help him if you can. https://mastodon.social/@Mohamed_Dawed/115391257122690419
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWhere does one go to buy a halfway decent machete that is made of good steel and will last a long time? I feel like something you find at a local big box store is probably going to be subpar quality.
@pre@boing.worldDespite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
--
Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialChocolate getting pricey. And if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit don't buy club.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo
Severe drought conditions affecting chocolate, and still some people don't think climate change matters.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Are you still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Years ago I found myself shopping for my wife's Christmas present on December 23rd. Never again. For those of you still shopping it's inevitable that you're going to be standing in front of the Gift Card rack and mentally convincing yourself that the recipient will love a full gas tank or a Timmies coffee and donut. Canadians will buy close to $12 billion in Gift Cards in 2025, with a lot of that in the next 5 days. Recent changes to legislation have made it illegal to charge processing or activation fees on cards purchased with cash and there is no expiry date. That last point is important because companies are betting that a certain percentage of cards are never redeemed and it's estimated that approximately 40% of all cards are never used. I personally like getting a gift card as it allows me to choose something I want, and I always thank the gifter once I've used it.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GiftCards
@scott@carfree.cityShoutout to Finjan Qahwa at Mission & Valencia for letting me buy a delicious Moroccan mint tea and bash out a blog post between 7 and 9pm. Gotta love a coffeeshop with evening hours
@ellie@ellieayla.netIs there a decent / standard way to convert bike lights from a rubber-strap mount to a rack's rear reflector / tail light mounting tab? (What is that thing even called?)
I'd consider a short length of pipe bolted to the tab - is that a janky mess? Should I just buy a different light?
#BikeTooter #question
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzHow to buy Dallas Cowboys vs. Philadelphia Eagles NFL football tickets, Week 12 https://www.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/11/17/buy-dallas-cowboys-vs-philadelphia-eagles-nfl-football-tickets-week-12/873192020…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialNow this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAlso slightly annoyed with both myself and husband for 1) allowing this situation to occur in first place 2) not being fully aware of the implications of the hasty decision to buy a windows based laptop in first place.
OTOH, we're reasonably knowledgeable on IT issues. What chance does average member of public stand?
4/n
@almad@fosstodon.orgRemember when you could buy stuff without leaving a review?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA spate of unforced errors by Bari Weiss has kept scrutiny high on CBS News, as Paramount tries to acquire WBD and can ill afford negative attention (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-weiss-cbs-news-gaffes-paramount-w…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialServiceNow agrees to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75B, set to close in H2 2026, pending approvals; Insight acquired Armis in a $1.1B deal in 2020 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23/serv…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@publicvoit@graz.socialInteresting: I was unsure if I should buy a 2nd hand OLED computer monitor for a specific price and if I really should because it's some kind of luxury for a few hundred Euros.
So I asked ChatGPT for (1) estimating a fair price given all the relevant information about that and then (2) describing my situation and letting it generate a /- list (to check if I have overseen an aspect) and a recommendation for buy/not buy.
The result was fascinating to me. One of the better use-…
@benb@osintua.euSlovenia to buy U.S. weapons to bolster Ukraine’s air defenses, Shmyhal says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/slovenia-to-buy-us-weapons.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io@… btw I’ve a group buy modern dasher D60 from 2018 (?) I think, this was a really small release but I think goes well with your video too
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzLimbo Lariats: Cowboys look to lasso momentum as trade deadline nears, buy or sell? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/16/2025-nfl-trade-deadline-dallas-cowboys-buy-sell-limbo/867…
@UP8@mastodon.social💸 Idaho State University may buy a private med school: What would it mean for Idaho's doctor shortage?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-idaho-state-university-buy-private.html
@raiders@darktundra.xyzBuy Las Vegas Raiders vs. Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Football tickets, Week 11 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/11/10/buy-las-vegas-raiders-vs-dallas-cowboys-monday-night-football…
@servelan@newsie.socialSo, he's willingly screwing over soy farmers and beef farmers. Who's next?
Trump suggests US will buy Argentinian beef to bring down prices for American consumers | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-javier-milei-washington-florida-air-force-one-b2848240.html
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Forschung kann Leben retten oder verlängern – durch Warnungen vor #Risiken und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende und
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEvent 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed "first customer" payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d4d9d091-5fd7-4c20-a3ca-f68f580f7d6b
@pre@boing.worldI has a bed.
No mattress until Monday, but a bed fully stained and varnished and constructed.
Had to wait a couple of days for varnish which never came. Went out to an actual DIY shop in the end. Gonna have a lot of spare varnish soon.
Varnished the whole room with two more coats as well as the bed twice.
A few more things to buy after Xmas and the full media setup can't happen until the new Steam Machine at its heart is released. Maybe cobble together something to plug a laptop into in the meantime? All for next year though once the mattress arrives and I can actually sleep in the bedroom.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys trade rumor from ESPN's Adam Schefter sheds light on Dallas' deadline goals https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-trade-rumor-espns-adam-schefter-dallas-deadline…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount are preparing bids to buy all or part of WBD; any deal would require President Trump's and US regulators' approval (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/media/warner-disc…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInsight 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-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEvent 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Axel Springer has considered buying about a dozen media businesses in the US, including TED Conferences, TechCrunch, the 1440 newsletter, and more (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/me…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/you-can-buy-your-ins…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and agrees to buy Chronosphere for $3.35B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/palo-alto-networks-panw-q1-2026-earnings-r…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could top $5B; Celestial was valued at $2.5B in March 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/marvell-advanced-talks-b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, in a deal that may value Armis at as much as $7B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-14/servic…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B in a deal as early as next week (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/servicenow-advanced-talks-buy-security…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at "bargain prices" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cbe24118-1c60-4f3c-acb8-9ace586246fa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWarburg 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…
