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Cards Against Humanity acquires ClickHole, will make employees the majority owners
Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the card game of the same name, has acquired the satirical site ClickHole from…
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How to blow through capital at an incredible rate
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. It was…
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Aki acquires Eyeview’s ad personalization tech
Video advertising company Eyeview shut down in December, but its technology will live on thanks to an acquisition by…
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Mastercard acquires security assessment startup, RiskRecon
Mastercard announced today that it is acquiring RiskRecon, a Salt Lake City startup that uses publicly available data to build…
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F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B
F5 got an expensive holiday present today, snagging startup Shape Security for approximately $1 billion. What the networking company gets…
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Google buys game developer Typhoon Studios
Google seems to be shopping for game studios as it courts consumer interest for its Stadia game-streaming platform, announcing Thursday…
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Berlin-based streaming guide JustWatch acquires New York rival GoWatchIt
Berlin-headquartered streaming guide JustWatch has grown to more than 10 million users across 38 countries in less than five years.…
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Camp Grounded Digital Detox returns after founder’s death
Summer camp for adults and beloved tech-free weekend getaway Camp Grounded ground to a halt in 2017. Its big-hearted founder,…
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Sonos acquires voice assistant startup Snips, potentially to build out on-device voice control
Sonos revealed during its quarterly earnings report that it has acquired voice assistant startup Snips in a $37 million cash…
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OpenText buys data security firm Carbonite for $1.42B
Carbonite has agreed to a $1.42 billion purchase by OpenText, an enterprise information management giant, ending weeks of speculation about…
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