@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-agrees-buy-ai-healthcare-app-1…
@jake4480@c.imIf you have a North American Switch eshop account (sorry, European & other folks) and wanna grab some free games, No Gravity Games is doing another holiday giveaway for several days. You HAVE TO get the game the day before to get the next day's game (they're also fairly cheap to just buy if you miss one). Grab the first one today - Bullets & Brains (a zombie shooter) here:
@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…
@joe@toot.worksIs it because they are eating less or because they can't afford food after buying Ozempic? 
"According to new research, the medications are associated with meaningful reductions in how much households spend on food, both at the grocery store and at restaurants."
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioEven if you want to watch some of their stuff, you can minmax making them less profit:
- buy used physical media
- don’t talk about their stuff online
- ████ it
And maybe look beyond, there’s so much better stuff out there anyway.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI'm supposed to go buy a music CD for someone and I don't even know where to go for that anymore!
#mke #milwaukee #music
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTether 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…
@benb@osintua.euBelgorod officials go door to door urging residents to buy generators amid massive blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/belgorod-officials-go-door-to.html
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioDamn, I know that corner. I go by there regularly. I know people who used to live in the apartment building in the background. I used to walk over there in college to buy Ben & Jerry’s at the SA.
I still can’t get over how surreal it is to have this happening…here. Where I am. Again. https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115879839506446165
@cdarwin@c.imHere's what the doctor ordered https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115709466867787148
@memeorandum@universeodon.comChicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown (Christine Fernando/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-immigration-ice-c24537965e31860fb07ba83e79de4f4b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p106#a251112p106
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of David Ellison, who is trying to build a media empire that could dwarf even the Murdochs' with help from his father and Oracle founder Larry Ellison (Reeves Wiedeman/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/larry-david-e…
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaI guess no-one should ever buy Apple gift cards. https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialJust heard a story on the Indiana Senate showing some spine in the face of violent threats, it occurs to me that if one had billions of dollars, one could probably buy a LOT of untraceable threats. There doesn’t need to be a mass populace making threats, just a paid staff.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… We might very well be a vocal minority, but I too think this is a poor plan.
I’d love to consider their vehicle, but can’t bring myself to buy it under that circumstance.
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialThe way android aggressively kills background apps had basically made my phone unusable. I can't buy things on my phone, because by the time I've authorised the purchase in the banking app, the browser window has been killed and the transaction reset. I can't log into websites on my phone, because by the time I've got the one time code from my email, the browser window has been killed and the login flow reset.
@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…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeGuess I need to buy a bigger cat bed
#Caturday
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza
@lpryszcz@genomic.social'This is the dark side and true meaning of "business optimization." The optimal business pays its suppliers and workers nothing, and charges its customers everything it can. Obviously, businesses need to settle for suboptimal outcomes, because workers won't show up if they don't get paid, and customers won't buy things that cost everything they have⹋.
⹋ Unless, of course, you are an academic publisher, in which case this is just how you do business.'
…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaDoes "export quality" mean "nobody here will buy this shit, so we have to sell it to ignorant foreigners?"
@whitequark@mastodon.socialmaybe what Amaranth needs is a "starter FPGA project", something fun you can buy cheaply and mess around with
@servelan@newsie.socialUNDERNEWS: Does US even need to buy Greenland to accomplish Trump's goals
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2026/01/does-us-even-need-to-buy-greenland-to.html
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Mit Deiner Hilfe informiere ich täglich über #Klimawandel, #Mobilitätswende, #Energiewende,
@jake4480@c.imOkay fedi, I need to buy a string trimmer (weed wacker). Anyone have brand preferences for modern, fairly affordable ones?
#AskFedi
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/957c7438-b2e0-4605-a276-caa8a7ec363c
@andycarolan@social.lolI’m in the coffee shop again…
As it’s a community coffee shop attached to a larger venue, so every time I buy a coffee, I also buy a Pay It Forward.
It’s a really busy place, so is a bit more vibrant than sitting on my own at home. I’m thankful that I found it!
#Coffee #ThirdPlace
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI needed to replace* my lovely extra long yoga mat and I’ve been angry for a week that I can only buy longer mats (I’m 178 cm tall, most mats are about 180) that are also wider. My new cute blue mat got delivered today in time for my class and … actually it was great. The extra width means less shuffling between poses for long limbs.
* the top layer unstuck from the bottom layer and stuck to itself instead to create a sort of curly lettuce effect, after years of loyal service!
@gilest@mastodon.me.ukwe had a cheese emergency and I had to leave this note in the kitchen
@cheryanne@aus.social
@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/
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialTrying not to buy this…
@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
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialAttention! Attention!
We have snow in GA. All residents please proceed to drive your vehicles at top speed and buy as much bread and milk as you can. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
#SnowInGA
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialIn case you love to dabble with (digital) synthesizers: you can currently buy ujam‘s STRANGER synth for $/€5 at Plugin Boutique – and you’ll get Native Instruments‘ MASSIVE for free on top. 😊 (no affiliation, just FYI)
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-I
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaxD When I search for Libre.fm on Google, I also get results for https://libro.fm, which is pretty awesome too!
@pre@boing.worldBedroom is done! Well. Builders are finished anyway. I still have to buy a bed and stuff to put in it, and since I've spent all my money that'll have to wait until payday. And then it's nearly xmas so probably better to wait until January.
There's a clasp missing to hold the window shutters shut. The one we had was too big. Should be able to screw one in myself tomorrow.
Doing all the lights and stuff will takes months and months probably.
But I can go back to sleeping in late instead of getting up to let the builders in every day.
@ruari@velocipederider.comIt is watch day but not for me. I bought a watch for my wife (left) and my daughter (right). No special occasion and they are not super fancy or expensive. I just, you know, buy watches. 🤷
@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…
@newstik@social.heise.de
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/11/22/campbell-soup-exec-caught-on-secret-recording-slamming-product-people-who-buy-it/
The exec caught on the recording was Campbell’s CISO.
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: #fascism, especially American fascism, there's something you can do. If you're in the US, don't buy anything if you can until Dec 2nd. If you do have to buy something, buy second hand, or buy local. If you're outside, don't buy anything from the US or any US company at all.
Spread the word. Keep it on people's mind. Write your own post. Talk to people you know in person. Print out flyers and post them around town.
The system understands the language of money. If you want a response, you have to speak the language the system understands.
Trump is extremely vulnerable. Don't wait for the regime to recovery. Hit it hard right now, with an economic blockade. Who knows, it might just crumble.
#USPol
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotElon Musk's "X" allowed and enabled online prostitution/pornography, and you're surprised they are planning on making money off of deep fake porn?
This is the guy who offered to buy a physiotherapist a pony if she'd jack him off...
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Täglich von 6 bis 23 Uhr findest Du hier News aus Medien & Forschung auf Deutsch zu #Klimawandel, #Klimaschutz, #Energiewende,
@MichaelLondonSF@mas.toFine letter from Kate Macintosh on UK Labour Party's irrational retention of the Right to Buy council housing. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/06/why-labour-lacks-credibility-when-it-comes-to-housing
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThis has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSomething about Polish people, and probably more.
First, they discovered that if they skip the middleperson and buy straight from the producer, they can pay less.
Then, they discover that if they buy from shady middlepeople, they can pay less.
Then, they discover that if they buy straight from China, they can pay less.
They never discover that if they stopped all the manipulations, they could actually earn more.
#AntiCapitalism
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialIn its home market Germany 🇩🇪 , the Volkswagen ID.3 is now cheaper to buy than the Golf (€29,330 vs €29,365).
Lower operating costs and more features. Is the nostalgia of a generation holding back the breakthrough?
https://www.electrive.net/2026/01/07/vw-bi
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deescorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew White House guidance says AI models procured by federal agencies must have "unbiased AI principles" and ensure "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality" (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/white-house-woke-ai…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Aims to Buy Greenland, Downplays Military Action (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/rubio-tells-lawmakers-trump-aims-to-buy-greenland-downplays-military-action-5c94e05c?st=SyCneS&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p125#a260106p125
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros.
Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals?
It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.
https://bsky.app/profile/warr…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialNetflix should buy Hasbro
@david@boles.xyzHey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now!
Hey, there! Welp, it's that time of the year again -- yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook -- Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025) -- to show your support so we may continue to publish this blog without advertising while still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Mit Deiner Hilfe informiere ich täglich über #Klimawandel, #Mobilitätswende, #Energiewende,
@raiders@darktundra.xyzHow to buy Denver Broncos vs. Las Vegas Raiders NFL tickets https://www.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/11/03/buy-denver-broncos-vs-las-vegas-raiders-nfl-tickets-week-10/87068212007/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe value of WBD's cable networks including CNN is a key number for Netflix and Paramount bidders; Ellison says they're worth ~$2.5B, while analysts say ~$10B (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/warner-bros-…
@jake4480@c.imI was thinking this morning, there should be more things like Goodwill, more thrift stores like that everywhere, for even LESS things going to landfills. Just people getting together, even as a trade or barter system, things like flea markets or garage sales-- people do some of this already.
Reusing things is so important, and repair, when possible-- I've been seeing some cool self-repair fix-it meetups on here, too.
As I was talking to my wife about it, and I remembered thi…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialDespite testing things every day on our demo site, I don't often actually look-at-it look at it. But for some reason tonight after triggering an update to the latest build I had a click around.
I'm really proud of how clean and easy Andrew Curthoys and I have made browsing for pretend shows and pretending to buy a ticket on it.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imNetflix 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…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deescorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/f…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNetflix deal to buy Warner Bros. 'could be a problem' because of size of market share, Trump says (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-netflix-warner-bros-merger-problem-f3e317b61899d34ce507ba38af4a2934
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p68#a251208p68
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBrands complain Amazon's "Buy for Me" AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission and shows descriptions with errors (Allison Smith/Modern Retail)
https://www.modernretail.co/technology/bra
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNBCU partners with RPA and Newton Research to connect buy-side and sell-side agentic AI, automating real-time cross-platform video ad deals starting in Q1 2026 (Wayne Friedman/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioLooking for a PowerBook G3 Pismo to buy from someone ideally Arizona or west coast, if you have a working one that you want to sell on, pls DM me and let me know what you have and how much you’re thinking?
#retrocomputing
@benb@osintua.euSerbia reaches deal to buy Russian gas until March: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/23/serbia-reaches-deal-to-buy.html
@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.socialSnowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/snowflake-announces-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says he wants government to buy $200B in mortgage bonds in a push to bring down mortgage rates (Josh Boak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-housing-mortgage-rates-79294cf8eac1579b17430b4cd0708fcd
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p132#a260108p132
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Mit Deiner Hilfe teile ich täglich #Forschungserkenntnisse und Neuigkeiten, die uns u. a. vor gesundheitlichen und finanziellen Risiken warnen und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300 US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30% since its August launch (Peyton Bigora/Grocery Dive)
https://www.grocerydive.com/news/amazon-sam…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHungarian journalists raise concerns after a pro-Orbšn media group bought Blikk, the country's most-read tabloid with ~3M online readers per month, from Ringier (Flora Garamvolgyi/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05…
@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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comChina to Buy 12 Million Tons of Soy This Year, Bessent Says (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/bessent-says-china-to-buy-12-million-tons-of-soybeans-this-year
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p71#a251030p71
@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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBuy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/world/europe/trump-greenland-denmark-us-defense-pact.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p18#a260107p18
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInside Paramount's new WBD bid: after six failed proposals across 12 weeks, and alleging WBD's board ignored a final offer, Paramount went hostile to buy WBD (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5da7064-3a46-4bab-9a6c-12ae03eead16
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta strikes a 20-year deal to buy 2,600 MW of nuclear power from Vistra, and announces deals to back new reactor projects from TerraPower and Oklo (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-unveils-sweeping-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Paramount's outside partners for its WBD bid include Saudi Arabia's PIF, Abu Dhabi's L'imad, Qatar Investment Authority, and Jared Kushner's Affinity (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/paramount-warner-netflix-hostile
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China's AI companies buy time while China's chip makers improve their chips' performance (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/china-gains-trump-nvi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/haveli-buy-majority-stake-contract-…
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDiscord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals' Discord server (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/835385/discord-shop-marvel-rivals-gifting-…
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialParamount 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese AI startup MiniMax raises $619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of the range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-de…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Larry Page bought two Miami estates in December and January for a combined $173.4M; Sergey Brin is also said to be in discussions to buy a Miami home (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-hom
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate on import conditions (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-tells-tech-…
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Samsung plans to acquire $1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025 (Kyu-seok Shim/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/samsung-e…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDoorDash's stock fell 17% on Thursday, marking its worst trading day ever, amid concerns over its 2026 spending plans for new products like autonomous delivery (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/doordash-dash-stock-earnings-spending.html
