Uber is buying Berlin startup Blacklane to bolster its ‘Elite’ offering
It’s a notable exit for Blacklane, which has raised more than $100 million from backers like Mercedes-Benz and Sixt.
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The company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger
The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.
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Making sense of US firm KKR’s offer on Lopez family’s First Gen
The Lopez family now has two separate reasons to be careful about how its internal fight ends
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As Atlas Mining leaves by 2027, SMIC expects 2GO, renewables to fill gap
The planned Atlas transfer is less a Sy family exit from mining than a reshuffling of where those assets sit, though the departure of this crucial earnings driver will leave a hole for SMIC to fill in its portfolio
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How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.
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[Vantage Point] The math behind Ramon Ang’s Lopez bet
Ramon Ang may not have bought the entire Lopez empire, but through Illumina, he bought a place near its summit—and an invitation from Piki Lopez to help shape what comes next
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Ramon Ang buys his way into Lopez Inc., which owns what he already builds
So far, what has actually changed hands is one family branch’s stake in the private company at the very top of the Lopez empire. Whether it leads to a direct ABS-CBN rescue is a question about what Ang, and the Lopez family, do next.
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AI | Biotech & Health | Privacy | Startups | Venture
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
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Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions
Canva says the acquisitions add strengths in agentic AI, data infrastructure, marketing automation, and customer engagement.
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Amazon to buy Globalstar for $11.57B in bid to flesh out its satellite biz
Amazon on Tuesday agreed to buy satellite company Globalstar, known for powering Apple’s “Emergency SOS” feature, for $11.57 billion in cash.
