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Payments giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have teamed up to make an offer to buy troubled PayPal in a deal valued at more than $53 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday.
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Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a ½ûÂþÌìÌà News tally, and the layoffs have continued...
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows, a...
The wind-downs at PayPal and Fidelity International may look like a retreat, but the data points to a concentration of power at the top of the market...
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To understand how institutional capital is navigating the gap between AI's public market software multiples and private market valuations, ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ...
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In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24...
Overall, investment in U.S. and Canadian startups totaled a staggering $392 billion for the first half of 2026, per ½ûÂþÌìÌà data, dwarfing...
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In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in ½ûÂþÌìÌà cleantech, EV and...
The artificial intelligence space saw two major developments last week that highlight how technology companies are trying to manage the soaring costs...
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows. The trend we’re...
While SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere dominates the headlines, a number of other multibillion-dollar transactions have also closed this...
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