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Nasuni acquired DryvIQ on August 27, 2026, taking ownership of the classification and migration engine 1,100 enterprises use across 40+ repositories. The announcement funds integration with Nasuni's own platform and commits to nothing about the connectors that move data elsewhere.
August 28, 2026 · 10 min read
AWS is not acquiring DuckDB — the MIT license and the IP stay with the independent DuckDB Foundation. But it is hiring the two people who hold two of that Foundation's three board seats, and the deed of incorporation lets the board appoint its own successors.
August 28, 2026 · 13 min read
DoiT bought Attribute, the eBPF-based AI cost-attribution startup, for an estimated $65M. DoiT also resells the cloud it now meters — and the kernel sensor you approved has a new owner nobody re-reviewed.
August 18, 2026 · 12 min read
Visa is paying $2.4 billion in cash for BioCatch, the behavioral-biometrics layer running inside more than 350 banks. Neither announcement commits to network neutrality, standalone pricing or data limits — and the roughly eight months before close is the only window in which a bank client can get those in writing.
August 7, 2026 · 14 min read