7 stories · “acquisitions”.
Proofpoint agreed to buy Varonis for $6.3 billion in cash, a 52% premium to its pre-rumour price, betting that AI agents make data the new security perimeter.
The Wall Street Journal reported Amazon is in advanced talks to buy AI startup Decart for roughly $7 billion, to make its Trainium chips easier to use.
Schneider Electric agreed to acquire PTC for about $22.6 billion in cash, its largest deal, betting on industrial AI. The closing is expected in Q3 2027.
AMD agreed to acquire World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup, for $8.2 billion in stock, naming her executive vice president and chief scientist.
Grab agreed to pay $1.49 billion in cash for 60% of buy-now-pay-later platform Atome Financial, its biggest acquisition, with the rest to follow.
Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Miro at a $1.355 billion enterprise value, about 90% below the whiteboard company's 2022 peak, in a second steep markdown.
LEGO Digital Play has acquired Offroad Games, the London mobile studio behind Chrome Valley Customs, in its first major move since the entity was created.
