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Category: Capital Flows & Deals
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Big Deals August 31, 2026: Broadcom stock steadies ahead of Q3 2026 earnings surge expectations
Stock Market and Earnings Updates this week: Broadcom stock is trading in the upper $360 range as of August 29, 2026, ahead of its fiscal Q3 2026 earnings; and Delivery Hero SE stock is trading in the mid-30s EUR range ahead of its Q2…
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Big Deals August 31, 2026: With All3Media Deal Closed, Patrick Holland to Run Combined Banijay U.K. as CEO and Executive Chair
Media & Entertainment M&A and Legal Battles this week: Patrick Holland has been confirmed as executive chairman and CEO of Banijay U.K.
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Big Deals August 24, 2026: Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement, Seeking Up to $1 Billion in Damages
Round Hill Music sued Suno and Anthropic in a California federal court, accusing both AI companies of infringing its copyright by scraping hundreds of its songs without permission to train their models.
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Big Deals August 17, 2026: Joshua Kushner Hollywoodreporter, Exclusive ClearJet raises 25M, 24-Hour AI News Channel Who
Capital Flows & Deals this week: The Los Angeles Lakers have been sold for the second time in under a year, with Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner; and ClearJet, an Austin-based logistics startup, has raised a $25 million Series B led by Edison…
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Big Deals August 10, 2026: Rare Land-Grab Moment Menlo Ventures, FCC Eliminates TV Station Ownership, Why Disney’s Next Big Consumer
Capital Flows & Deals this week: Menlo Ventures has raised $3 billion across two new funds, its largest capital raise in 50 years, with a mandate to; and The FCC voted 2-1 to eliminate the national cap on TV station ownership, which…
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Big Deals August 3, 2026: Exclusive Co-Founded By Former Whoop, Soccer World Cup Boycott Backed, build ultra-fast voice AI that, and more
Capital Flows & Deals this week: Throne Science, co-founded by former Whoop CTO John Capodilupo, has raised $10 million in a Series A led by Will; and All 55 UEFA member associations have unanimously voted to boycott FIFA…
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Big Deals July 27, 2026: Domo to Retain More Than $900M in Tax Benefits After Sale
Capital Flows & Deals this week: Domo has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets and certain liabilities to Progress Software for $400; and Mexico-based startups raised $944 million in Q2 2026, up 131% year over year, extending…
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Big Deals July 20, 2026: Judge Pauses Ruling, Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds, Billion-Dollar Seed Isn’t, and more
Capital Flows & Deals this week: A federal judge has delayed a decision on California’s request to freeze Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of; and This week’s largest U.S. startup funding rounds totaled over $3.3 billion, led by a $1.
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Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up
Capital Flows & Deals this week: European venture funding hit $24 billion in Q2 2026, the region’s strongest quarter in four years, driven by large; and North American startup funding hit a record $392 billion in the first half of 2026…
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AI Regulation, Clean Energy Prices, White House accelerates plans AI model standards, and more.
AI Regulation, Clean Energy Prices, and Data Center Conflicts this week: Imminent federal AI standards signal regulatory capture risk for foundational model developers; and Signals continued executive resistance to centralized AI…