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The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’

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According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 offer, antitrust review on both sides of the Atlantic, and an […]

Theresa Loconsolo

Will there actually be any such thing as a Project Helix "native" game? | Opinion

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Microsoft's decision to go ahead with its GDC keynote this week, at which it began the dance-of-the-seven-veils process of lifting the wraps on its next-generation console hardware, was somewhat surprising. When the leadership of the Xbox division was reshuffled a few weeks ago, there was an implication that this would signal strategic changes as well, especially around the positioning and role of the Xbox console in the wider gaming strategy – changes which are unlikely to have even been finalised yet, much less reflected in the GDC presentation.

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Rob Fahey