Lyft acquires TBR Global Chauffeuring, a Glasgow-based luxury chauffeur services company, for £83 million.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-18
Lyft TBR Global Chauffeuring
Lyft plans to open a new tech hub in Toronto in H2 2026 and acquires TBR Global Chauffeuring, a Glasgow-based luxury chauffeur services company, for £83M
Reuters · 2025-10-18 · #21
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year exclusive U.S. media rights deal, starting in 2026, to stream all F1 races on Apple TV.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-18
Apple Formula One United States all races Apple TV exclusive five-year (starting 2026)
Apple will replace ESPN as the exclusive U.S. broadcaster for Formula 1; ESPN had been paying roughly $85–90M per year for the rights.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-18
Apple ESPN Formula One US rights ESPN previously paid ≈$85–90M per year
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year U.S. media rights deal beginning in 2026 that moves all F1 races to Apple TV; Apple is paying about $140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-17
Apple Formula One Apple TV F1 races
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year
CNBC · 2025-10-17 · #5
Marc Benioff is the owner of TIME magazine.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-17
Marc Benioff TIME magazine
Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump
New York Times · 2025-10-17 · #39
Salesforce has a pending $8 billion acquisition of data management company Informatica, targeted to close by Q1 2027; the announced FY2030 revenue expectation excludes this deal.
rumored 1 article 2025-10-16
Salesforce Informatica $8B target close: Q1 2027
Salesforce says it expects FY 2030 revenue of $60B+, vs. $58.37B est., excluding its $8B pending acquisition of data management company Informatica by Q1 2027
CNBC · 2025-10-16 · #52
The acquisition would give Ripple access to GTreasury's Fortune 500 enterprise clients to help expand its financial services around digital assets.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-16
Ripple Fortune 500 companies
Ripple acquires GTreasury, a platform used by Fortune 500 companies for managing cash, foreign exchange, and risk, for $1B, set to close in the coming months
CoinDesk · 2025-10-16 · #27
Kraken acquires US-licensed futures exchange Small Exchange from IG Group.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-16
Kraken Small Exchange IG Group
Kraken acquires US-licensed futures exchange Small Exchange from IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent company's Payward stock, before an IPO
Bloomberg · 2025-10-16 · #11
Deal consideration: $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Payward (Kraken parent company) stock.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-16
Kraken $32.5M cash $67.5M Payward stock
Kraken acquires US-licensed futures exchange Small Exchange from IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent company's Payward stock, before an IPO
Bloomberg · 2025-10-16 · #11
Ripple announces acquisition of GTreasury for $1B, set to close in the coming months.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-16
Ripple GTreasury
Ripple acquires GTreasury, a platform used by Fortune 500 companies for managing cash, foreign exchange, and risk, for $1B, set to close in the coming months
CoinDesk · 2025-10-16 · #27
Kraken aims to broaden the range of futures products it can offer directly to US customers by acquiring the US-licensed Small Exchange.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-16
Kraken US customers futures products
Kraken acquires US-licensed futures exchange Small Exchange from IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent company's Payward stock, before an IPO
Bloomberg · 2025-10-16 · #11
An investment consortium including BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft announces it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie for $40B and plans to expand the data center to meet computing demand.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-15
BlackRock Nvidia xAI Microsoft Aligned Data Centers Macquarie
An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal
Financial Times · 2025-10-15 · #23
ABB sells its robotics unit to SoftBank for $5.4B.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-15
ABB ABB robotics unit SoftBank
SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the “physical AI” era
Bloomberg · 2025-10-15 · #39
Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-15
Nscale Microsoft
UK-based cloud provider Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal
Financial Times · 2025-10-15 · #17
SoftBank acquires ABB's robotics unit in a $5.4B purchase.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-15
SoftBank ABB robotics unit
SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the “physical AI” era
Bloomberg · 2025-10-15 · #39
Wingtech owned and controlled Nexperia prior to the Dutch seizure.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-15
Wingtech Nexperia
The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war
Financial Times · 2025-10-15 · #38
Vertical Semiconductor is a spinoff from MIT.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-15
Vertical Semiconductor MIT
MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor, which aims to make vertical gallium nitride transistors for AI data centers, raised an $11M seed led by Playground Global
SiliconANGLE · 2025-10-15 · #30
Vantage Studios is a new unit/subsidiary operating under Ubisoft.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-14
Vantage Studios Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté departs Ubisoft, two weeks after the game moved under Ubisoft's new Vantage Studios unit; Côté joined in 2005
IGN · 2025-10-14 · #14
Sources report Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision for approximately $100M in August.
rumored 1 article 2025-10-14
Tata Electronics Justech Precision (Indian unit)
Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides CNC machines to Foxconn, for ~$100M in August
CNBC · 2025-10-14 · #36
Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures (with $7B AUM) for $665M in cash and equity plus up to $300M tied to performance.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-14
Goldman Sachs Industry Ventures
Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B in AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance
Reuters · 2025-10-14 · #41
The merger between Fivetran and dbt Labs is structured as an all-stock deal.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-14
Fivetran dbt Labs
Data integration startup Fivetran and data management startup dbt Labs announce a merger in an all-stock deal; Fivetran's CEO will be the CEO of the new company
Reuters · 2025-10-14 · #45
Fivetran and dbt Labs announce they will merge to form a combined company.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-14
Fivetran dbt Labs
Data integration startup Fivetran and data management startup dbt Labs announce a merger in an all-stock deal; Fivetran's CEO will be the CEO of the new company
Reuters · 2025-10-14 · #45
Salesforce announced a process intelligence acquisition (company not named in the headline/description).
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
Salesforce
At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an “agentic OS”
Constellation Research · 2025-10-13 · #8
Wingtech is the parent company of Netherlands-headquartered chipmaker Nexperia.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
Wingtech Nexperia
Wingtech's Shanghai-listed stock plunged 10%, its daily limit, after the Dutch government seized control of Nexperia, which Wingtech acquired in 2018 for $3.6B
Bloomberg · 2025-10-13 · #6
Anduril plans to deliver approximately 100 AI-powered EagleEye helmets and eyewear units to the US Army by Q2 2026.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
Anduril US Army EagleEye helmet EagleEye eyewear
Anduril plans to deliver ~100 units of its AI-powered EagleEye helmet and eyewear to the US Army by Q2 2026, replacing Microsoft's IVAS; Meta provided some tech
DefenseScoop · 2025-10-13 · #16
The Nvidia and AMD deals add a new layer to OpenAI's complicated ownership structure.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
OpenAI Nvidia AMD
OpenAI's multibillion-dollar Nvidia and AMD deals add a new layer to its complicated ownership structure and dilute shareholders, like Microsoft and SoftBank
Financial Times · 2025-10-13 · #31
Warburg Pincus agrees to acquire German industrial software company PSI for over €700M (€45 per share), roughly a 50% premium; PSI's stock closed at €33.20 on October 10.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
Warburg Pincus PSI
Warburg Pincus agrees to acquire German industrial software company PSI for €700M+, or €45 per share, a ~50% premium; PSI's stock closed at €33.20 on October 10
Reuters · 2025-10-13 · #32
OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar deals with Nvidia and AMD.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
OpenAI Nvidia AMD
OpenAI's multibillion-dollar Nvidia and AMD deals add a new layer to its complicated ownership structure and dilute shareholders, like Microsoft and SoftBank
Financial Times · 2025-10-13 · #31
Wingtech acquired Nexperia in 2018 for $3.6 billion.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
Wingtech Nexperia
Wingtech's Shanghai-listed stock plunged 10%, its daily limit, after the Dutch government seized control of Nexperia, which Wingtech acquired in 2018 for $3.6B
Bloomberg · 2025-10-13 · #6
Anduril's EagleEye system is intended to replace Microsoft's IVAS system for the US Army as part of the planned deliveries.
confirmed 1 article 2025-10-13
Anduril Microsoft IVAS
Anduril plans to deliver ~100 units of its AI-powered EagleEye helmet and eyewear to the US Army by Q2 2026, replacing Microsoft's IVAS; Meta provided some tech
DefenseScoop · 2025-10-13 · #16