Hacker News with Generative AI: Acquisitions

Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (engadget.com)
Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, is purchasing the audio business of health technology company Masimo for $350 million in cash.
Samsung, Acquisitions, Audio Equipment, Technology, Business
213 points by thibautg 2 days ago | 314 comments
DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo (cnbc.com)
Acquisitions, Food Delivery, Business
179 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 375 comments
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the ChatGPT maker’s largest acquisition to date.
Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, OpenAI, Technology, Business
653 points by swyx 3 days ago | 567 comments
Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B (upstartsmedia.com)
Data and AI unicorn Databricks is in talks to make a splash with another startup acquisition, Upstarts has learned.
Data, Startups, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence, Business
202 points by ko_pivot 4 days ago | 171 comments
Gaming news site Polygon gutted by layoffs amid sale to Valnet (arstechnica.com)
Vox Media has sold video game specialist website Polygon to Internet brand aggregator Valnet, the publisher of content-churning sites including Game Rant, OpenCritic, Android Police, and Comic Book Resources.
Gaming, Layoffs, Media, Acquisitions
10 points by pseudolus 8 days ago | 2 comments
Fivetran to acquire Census (fivetran.com)
Fivetran becomes the only fully managed platform that can move trusted, governed data in any direction, powering real-time decisions, AI, and business operations.
Acquisitions, Data Management, Business Operations, AI
82 points by njaremko 8 days ago | 50 comments
Polygon Sold to Valnet and Hit with Mass Layoffs (kotaku.com)
The video game website Polygon has been sold to click-farm powerhouse Valnet and much of its masthead has been laid off, Kotaku has learned.
Video Games, Media, Business, Acquisitions, Layoffs
16 points by jmsflknr 8 days ago | 2 comments
Travis Kalanick wants to push state of the art in Backgammon (reddit.com)
We have some exciting news! After 25 years, it is time for us to pass the torch to someone else. Travis Kalanick, yes the Uber founder, has purchased Gammonsite and eXtreme Gammon and will take over our backgammon products (he has a message to the community below).
Backgammon, Business, Acquisitions, Technology
9 points by polyphilz 12 days ago | 1 comments
Yahoo Wants to Buy Chrome (theverge.com)
Legacy search brand Yahoo has been working on its own web browser prototype, and says it would like to buy Google’s Chrome if the company is forced by a court to sell it.
Web Browsers, Technology, Business, Acquisitions
28 points by pier25 15 days ago | 13 comments
Acquisitions, consolidation, and innovation in AI (frontierai.substack.com)
The rumors of OpenAI potentially acquiring Windsurf last week triggered a whole round of new takes on the internet: concerns about moving up into the application layer, fears of widespread consolidation, and our perennial favorite, concerns about the demise of all AI application startups when OpenAI inevitably creates super-intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, Consolidation
87 points by pfarago 15 days ago | 38 comments
Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition (huggingface.co)
Robotics, Open Source, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence
10 points by saeedesmaili 16 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it's allegedly not alone.
OpenAI, Chrome, Artificial Intelligence, Browsers, Acquisitions
150 points by pseudolus 16 days ago | 217 comments
Boeing sold its digital business to Thoma Bravo for 10B (nytimes.com)
Boeing announced on Tuesday that it would sell a handful of navigation, flight planning and other businesses for more than $10.5 billion as the company works to refocus on manufacturing planes and other aircraft.
Boeing, Acquisitions, Aerospace, Business, Finance
23 points by vincentchau 16 days ago | 3 comments
Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf? (theahura.substack.com)
The quiet news of the last few days was the leak/announcement of a $3 billion OpenAI acquisition of Windsurf.
OpenAI, Acquisitions, AI, Technology, Business
241 points by theahura 19 days ago | 223 comments
OpenAI, Windsurf, and the Future of Work (subtle.so)
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3 billion. They tried to buy Cursor last year too, according to CNBC.
OpenAI, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology
15 points by subtlesoftware 20 days ago | 4 comments
Italian coffee pot maker Bialetti to be sold to Chinese business NUO Capital (theguardian.com)
Bialetti, the Italian manufacturer of the famed stove-top moka coffee pot, has struck a deal to sell the business to an investment vehicle owned by a Chinese tycoon.
Business, Acquisitions, China, Italy, Coffee
11 points by ValentineC 20 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf (cnbc.com)
OpenAI, Acquisitions, Technology, Startups, Artificial Intelligence
130 points by mfiguiere 22 days ago | 116 comments
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B (techcrunch.com)
Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported.
Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, OpenAI, Technology, Startups
4 points by cheptsov 22 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI in talks to acquire Windsurf for ~$3B (cnbc.com)
OpenAI, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Business
8 points by craneca0 22 days ago | 5 comments
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B (techcrunch.com)
Codeium, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant tool Windsurf, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, Software, Coding Tools
6 points by spankalee 23 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI in talks to pay about $3B to acquire startup Windsurf (cnbc.com)
OpenAI, Acquisitions, Startups, AI
5 points by kjhughes 23 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3B (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, OpenAI, Technology, Business
60 points by mfiguiere 23 days ago | 44 comments
Lyft to buy taxi app Free Now for $200M to expand into Europe (cnbc.com)
Transportation, Acquisitions, Europe, Business
20 points by edward 23 days ago | 2 comments
Figma confidentially files for US IPO after $20B Adobe deal collapse (marketscreener.com)
Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, more than a year after a $20 billion deal to be acquired by Adobe was shelved due to regulatory roadblocks.
IPO, Business, Acquisitions, Technology, Software
23 points by swyx 23 days ago | 4 comments
Notion's Lies Sunsetting Skiff Mail (ycombinator.com)
With the announcement of "Notion Mail", here's a reminder that after Notion acquired Skiff Mail in early 2024, their entire product line was sunset and, despite promising[1][2] email forwarding and support would remain functional until 2025 for trapped users that couldn't immediately access their accounts, both turned out to be complete lies.
Notion, Email, Privacy, Acquisitions, Software
24 points by notioned 24 days ago | 2 comments
Meta faces antitrust claims at trial over Instagram and WhatsApp ownership (theguardian.com)
Facebook parent Meta Platforms faces a high-stakes trial in Washington starting on Monday on claims it built an illegal social media monopoly by spending billions of dollars to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp, in a case in which US antitrust enforcers seek to unwind the deals.
Antitrust, Social Media, Facebook, Acquisitions, Lawsuits
6 points by c420 25 days ago | 0 comments
Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook (cybersecuritypulse.net)
Google just acquired Wiz for $32B, 5 years after it’s founding. If you haven’t been watching closely, you may be asking yourself “How on earth did they achieve that?”. It’s an unprecedented, historic feat that will be talked about and studied for decades.
Cybersecurity, Acquisitions, Business, Technology
74 points by baxtr 25 days ago | 63 comments
Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare (arroyo.dev)
Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-source and self-hostable.
Cloud Computing, Acquisitions, Open Source, Serverless Computing
113 points by necubi 29 days ago | 38 comments
Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase (cloudflare.com)
I’m thrilled to share that Cloudflare has acquired Outerbase.
Cloud Computing, Acquisitions, Security
59 points by soheilpro 31 days ago | 12 comments
The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition (filfre.net)
At the beginning of 1996, Sierra On-Line was still basking in the success of the previous summer’s Phantasmagoria, the best-selling game it had ever published.
Gaming, History, Acquisitions
286 points by cybersoyuz 35 days ago | 115 comments