Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Monday, November 10th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

Rumble, a U.S. video sharing platform and cloud services provider, said it will acquire

German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in a deal valued at up to $970 million,

bringing together two companies backed by stablecoin

issuer Tether. Rumble said it would gain access to Northern Data's large portfolio of

graphics processing unit products and a data center business through the deal, supporting Rumble's

global expansion strategy. The deal values Northern Data at around $767 million based on Rumble's global expansion strategy. The deal values Northern data at around $767 million

based on Rumble's closing price Friday. Rumble expects the deal to close in the second

quarter of next year. NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware, says a group of

investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simons has acquired a controlling stake in the firm,

which has named David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and one-time bankruptcy lawyer for

President Trump, as its new executive chairman. Friedman says he wants to use his ties to the Trump

administration to rebuild the company's spyware business in the U.S.

The company, which has faced lawsuits and U.S. government sanctions since discoveries that its technology was used to spy on political dissidents, human rights advocates, journalists,

and American officials declined to disclose the purchase price.

And finally, we are exclusively reporting Coinbase Global is launching a new platform to allow

individual investors to purchase digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, marking the

first time since 2018 that U.S. retail traders will be able to participate in public token sales,

then known as initial coin offerings or ICOs. The move also marks a major

stride toward Coinbase's ambition to become a one-stop shop for a number of financial services

underpinned by blockchain technology. That's your T&B Tech Minute. Join us again this afternoon

for more.

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