… Microsoft is less generous with the deals on its own laptops and tablets, but you can even get a discount on a Surface Laptop as part of the offer. A discounted laptop is great, but where the value of the Microsoft College Offer gets harder to define is with the services the company is packing in. …
… Gracenote has recently inked deals to back AI ventures from other companies, including Samsung and Google .
… Last week, Gamestop offered $125 a share to purchase eBay, despite having a market value less than a quarter of eBay $11 billion compared to $45 billion . …
… The deals are another example of Anthropic's ability to burn through money — the company only just raised $30 billion in its most recent round of funding. They could also serve as an example of the AI industry's love of circular deals. …
Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity is dead By Karissa Bell May 6, 2026 5:04 pm EST Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity to put the AI search engine directly in Snapchat is dead. …
Waymo's monthly membership seems like a bad deal You'll pay way mo' for a lot less compared to the competition. …
… Sony bought Bungie back in 2022 , in a deal reportedly worth $3.6 billion. The company has since lowered the value of the company to around $2.8 billion , making for a loss of over $700 million.
… SpaceX's IPO, filed confidentially earlier this week , is expected to raise over $50 billion and value the company at over $1 trillion. With banks set to rake in over $500 million from their work on the deal, perhaps paying for Grok, despite its myriad issues , seemed a small price to pay. …
… A24's revenue has more than doubled in the past two years and the company was recently valued at $3.5 billion .
… This deal indicated the two gambling platforms would feed prediction data into Google's finance platform, but didn't say anything about News. …