Adobe's Figma Acquisition and the Ethereum Merge
Bloomberg Tech
Bloomberg
4.4 • 70 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Bloomberg's Emily Chang breaks down Adobe's $20 billion deal to acquire software design startup Figma - in the biggest takeover of a private software company ever. Plus, what came out of the Ethereum Merge, now finally complete.
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| 0:00.0 | Join global business leaders and investors at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit, returning to Singapore on July 31st. |
| 0:09.0 | Take part in solutions driven discussions on how to drive business value and unlock opportunity |
| 0:14.8 | while remaining nimble in times of change and greater ESG accountability. |
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| 0:28.0 | From the heart of where innovation, money, and power collide, |
| 0:35.0 | in Silicon Valley and beyond, this is Bloomberg Technology with Emily J. I'm Emily Chengen, San Francisco and this is Bloomberg Technology coming up in the next hour. |
| 1:00.0 | It is the biggest ever takeover of a private software company. |
| 1:03.7 | Adobe has agreed to buy the software design startup, |
| 1:06.4 | Big Ma in a deal valued at $20 billion. |
| 1:10.1 | We're going to hear from executives at both companies in an exclusive interview. |
| 1:14.0 | Plus the merge is here. Success. |
| 1:16.8 | We're going to hear from an Ethereum core developer about whether it's all going to plan |
| 1:21.0 | and what is next. |
| 1:22.0 | And Climate Tech Invester in on... going to plan and what is next. |
| 1:23.4 | And climate tech investor and entrepreneur David Friedman is with us. |
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| 1:30.0 | We'll ask about his new SPAC, today's big tech M&A, and Elon Musk. |
| 1:35.1 | A number of social platforms will announce new actions to combat hate crimes and racially |
| 1:40.5 | motivated violence at a summit hosted by President Biden at the White House, |
| 1:44.6 | representatives from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft. |
| 1:48.9 | All planning to attend. |
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