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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: EU Approves Google’s Purchase of Cybersecurity Startup Wiz

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Paramount sweetens its hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. And wealth management stocks fall after AI tool announcement. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute, for Tuesday, February 10th.

0:35.5

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.2

The European Union has approved Google's $32 billion all-cash deal for cybersecurity startup WIS. The acquisition is the

0:46.7

alphabet unit's largest ever. The EU's executive arm said today the agreement is unlikely to affect

0:52.7

competition in the block, saying customers

0:55.0

could switch services to credible competitors if Google started bundling with its security

0:59.6

platform with its own existing products. The block's competition enforcers said in a statement

1:04.2

that Google stands behind Amazon and Microsoft in terms of market shares in cloud infrastructure.

1:10.6

Paramount has sweetened its hostile bid for all of Warner Brothers' discovery by agreeing to cover

1:16.1

the $2.8 billion termination fee Warner would owe Netflix. Paramount also added a ticking fee

1:22.4

of 25 cents per share per quarter, or about $650 million quarterly starting next year if regulatory

1:30.3

approval isn't secured by the end of this year. Netflix has agreed to pay $72 billion cash for

1:37.0

Warner's studios and HBO Mac streaming service. Meanwhile, Paramount's hostel bid is valued at just under

1:44.0

$78 billion.

1:46.1

In a statement, Warner said its board will review Paramount's new offer.

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