Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026
Netflix announced this week that it had reached … Axios : Netflix to buy Warner Bros. for nearly $83 billion Alex Pigman / Taipei Times : Warner Bros acquisition by Netflix sparks backlash Victory Emm...
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal
Perplexity AI just made a $34.5b unsolicited offer for Google's Chrome browser … Mashable : Google received a ‘longshot’ $34 billion offer for Chrome from a surprising source Adam Spatacco / Motley Fo...
Sources: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has become more vocal and aggressive internally; ex-executive: “Twitter is willing to go to war” to make the Musk deal happen
The $44bn takeover of Twitter has been punctuated by public clashes between two executives with wildly differing styles … Tweets: @tomgara , @sarthakgh , and @rafat Tweets: Tom Gara / @tomgara : There...
Brooklyn-based Genius, a music-annotating startup that provides context for lyrics, sells its assets for $80M, less than the total funding it raised
> @Genius — one of the most unlikable tech startups of the past decade-plus, which promised to “debunk the myth of scientific journalism” with its “homiesourcing” — just got sold for less than what in...
MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14
As of Saturday September 14, 2019, MoviePass has moviepassed on. Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : It's Curtains on the MoviePass Grift Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : MoviePass will officially shut down on...
Spotify buys podcast producer Gimlet Media, sources say for ~$230M, and Anchor, a startup which makes it easier for users to record and distribute podcasts
1. Rare double win for @betaworks and (GV and private) @mgsiegler / @msquinn 2. Gimlet far less valuable than Anchor in long run, but content is hard so it's a jump start.3. Audio = asynchronous = hug...
A look at the incentives cities offered to Amazon in their HQ2 bids, including an exclusive airport lounge, relocation expenses for employees, and more
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @tomgara and @dkthomp Tweets: Tom Gara / @tomgara : Among the stuff various cities offered Amazon: zero-interest loans for Amazon employees to buy houses in Boston, a taskforc...