Detroit-based real estate platform Rocket plans to buy Redfin, a home search service and adtech brokerage, for $1.75B, or $12.50 per share, closing in Q2 or Q3
Here's What Investors Need to Know Akanksha Bakshi / Benzinga : Rocket Wants $1.75 Billion Redfin Deal To Change How America Buys Homes Holden Walter-Warner / The Real Deal : Rocket Companies acquirin...
Amazon closes its $8.5B MGM acquisition, two days after the EU's antitrust regulator “unconditionally” approved the deal as the business overlaps are “limited”
Welcome back to a new edition of Lab Weekly. Robert / Transistori : Amazon omistaa nyt MGM:n The Verge : MGM is now part of Amazon Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Amazon completes $8.5 billion acquisition ...
Quantum computing startup Rigetti Computing to go public via SPAC, in a deal expected to raise $458M at a $1.5B valuation
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Accolade, a health care service for employees to manage benefits, is buying virtual primary care startup PlushCare for up to $450M, in a cash and stock deal
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StackPulse, which offers tools for incident response automation, raises $20M Series A led by GGV
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Rubrik, a data management startup last valued at $3.3B in 2019, acquires tech and IP assets from Igneous, which provides unstructured data management services
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Facebook paid $367.6M to buy a 400K square foot complex from REI in Bellevue, WA, expanding its 3M square feet office space footprint in Seattle
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Smartsheet to buy Brandfolder, a Denver-based startup that sells digital asset management software, for approximately $155M in cash and stock
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F5 Networks says it will acquire AI-powered fraud prevention platform Shape Security for around $1B in cash
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Sources: Nike acquires TraceMe, which wants to connect celebs with “superfans”; TraceMe was founded by NFL star Russell Wilson and backed by Jeff Bezos, others
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