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$199M revenue 2024; 85K customers; $175M ARR (+25% YoY); $226M funding; $1B valuation; AI Assist/Voice Agent; Salesforce/HubSpot integration; cloud phone leader

$210M Q4 2024 revenue (+27% YoY); Nasdaq BAND; Fortune 25 healthcare customer; IDC MarketScape Leader 2025 4x consecutive; owner-operated network; CPaaS leader

Comcast Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2024 Results Comcast announced its best financial performance in 60-year history with record revenue of $123.73 billion (up 1.78% YoY), record adjusted EBITDA of $38 billion, and strong earnings growth. Q4 2024 revenue reached $31.92 billion with net income rising 47% to $4.78 billion. The company surpassed 7.8 million mobile lines after adding 1.2 million wireless customers in 2024, though it lost 139,000 residential broadband customers in Q4.

Omnicom Completes Acquisition of Interpublic, Forming World's Leading Marketing Company Omnicom Group completed its acquisition of The Interpublic Group of Companies on November 26, 2025, creating the world's leading marketing and sales company with pro forma revenues exceeding $25 billion. Philippe Krakowsky and Daryl Simm serve as Co-Presidents and COOs under Chairman and CEO John Wren. The transaction was completed following regulatory approvals from the FTC, UK CMA, European Commission, and

Electronic Arts Agrees to $55 Billion Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners EA agreed to be acquired by a consortium including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners in a landmark $55 billion deal. Shareholders will receive $210 per share in cash, representing a 25% premium to the company's unaffected share price of $168.32. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of EA's fiscal year 2027, taking the gaming giant private.

$4.7M total ($4.2M seed Dec 2024 Venture Highway/YC); Jared Friedman (YC), Amjad Masad/Michele Catasta (Replit), Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition), Ben Firshman (Replicate) angels; Founded 2023 San Francisco; YC W23; Acquired by Cisco Nov 2025; Two models (voice cloning/emotion + translation); 20 source, 34 target languages; Translation before sentence completion; Tone/intent/speech characteristics; 31 languages real-time; Universal translator app; Phone calls

News Corp Extends CEO Robert Thomson's Contract Through 2030 News Corp announced the extension of CEO Robert Thomson's contract through June 2030, reflecting the board's confidence in his leadership and strategic vision. Under Thomson's tenure since 2013, digital revenue has grown from 20% to 62% of total revenue, and the company has achieved record profitability through focused portfolio management and digital transformation.

Alphabet Unveils Gemini 3, Outperforming GPT-5 in AI Race Alphabet released Gemini 3, which by many measures performed better than OpenAI's GPT-5, solidifying Google's position at the forefront of the AI revolution. The new model demonstrates significant improvements in reasoning, multimodal understanding, and real-time capabilities, benefiting all share classes equally with stock valuations near record highs.

Meta Ends Third-Party Fact-Checking, Adopts Community Notes System Meta announced it will end its use of third-party fact-checkers across its platforms and replace them with a user-run community notes system similar to X (formerly Twitter). The policy shift represents a major change in content moderation strategy and sparked debate about misinformation management on social media platforms.

Alphabet Unveils Gemini 3, Outperforming GPT-5 in AI Race Alphabet released Gemini 3, which by many measures performed better than OpenAI's GPT-5, solidifying Google's position at the forefront of the AI revolution. The new model demonstrates significant improvements in reasoning, multimodal understanding, and real-time capabilities, keeping Alphabet near record high stock valuations.

Omnicom Completes $13.5B IPG Acquisition, Creating World's Largest Ad Holding Company Omnicom successfully closed its $13.5 billion acquisition of Interpublic Group (IPG) on November 26, 2025, uniting two industry rivals in a historic deal that creates the world's largest advertising and marketing services company with combined annual revenue of approximately $26 billion.

Paramount Skydance Targets $3 Billion in Cost Savings with Additional Layoffs Paramount Skydance announced plans to achieve at least $3 billion in run-rate efficiencies, up from the initial $2 billion target. The company has laid off approximately 1,600 employees tied to divestitures in Argentina and Chile, with another 1,000 employees laid off in late October 2025.

Zillow Co-Founder Spencer Rascoff Appointed Match Group CEO Match Group appointed Spencer Rascoff, co-founder of Zillow, as its new Chief Executive Officer effective immediately, with Bernard Kim stepping down. The leadership change comes as the company navigates subscriber declines and seeks to reinvigorate growth through AI integration and product innovation.

$500K pre-seed (YC/Pioneer Fund/Waterloo Endowment); 1.25M+ hours/month streamed; 10K concurrent participants capacity; Evolved from Tutturu.tv 150K MAU; Remote learning/virtual conferencing/gaming/VR/social; $3K/month example client; Founded University Waterloo (ex-Facebook/Yahoo/Lyft); Every continent; Multi-user control; Watch parties/casinos/productivity

News Corp Extends CEO Robert Thomson's Contract Through June 2030 News Corporation announced it has extended CEO Robert Thomson's contract through June 2030, reflecting the board's confidence in his leadership that has delivered record profitability and successful transformation to digital-first revenue streams across the company's diverse portfolio.

$65M total ($16M Series A Aug 2024 Scale/YC/Levchin/Lawson, $40M Series B Jan 2025 Emergence/YC/Scale); Founded 2023 Washington University; YC S23; Cleveland Cavaliers/Better.com customers; Millions simultaneous calls; Multiple languages; In-house infrastructure; Low-latency; Secure; Customizable; AI phone agents; Enterprise operations

Fox One Streaming Service Officially Launches Fox Corporation launched Fox One, its new streaming service targeting cord-cutters and cord-nevers. The service includes the Fox broadcast network and the company's cable channels, offering comprehensive access to Fox's premium live programming in a streaming format.

Fox One Streaming Service Officially Launches Fox Corporation launched Fox One, its new streaming service targeting cord-cutters and cord-nevers. The service includes the Fox broadcast network and the company's cable channels, offering comprehensive access to Fox's premium live programming in a streaming format.

$3.75M total ($3.25M seed Feb 2024 Gradient/Accel/Liquid 2); Founded 2023 by Hooshmand/Raj; YC W23; Open-source voice AI; Voice-based LLM apps; Real-time speech recognition; Natural language understanding; Speech synthesis; Conversational voice interfaces; Realistic dialogue; Developer tools

$21M total ($3M seed Jul 2023, $18M Series A Dec 2024 Bessemer/YC/Basecase); Founded 2023 San Francisco by Kinoshita/Rocha; YC W23; 23 employees; Developer-first email platform; React-based API; Easy integration; Email infrastructure for developers

Live Nation Reports Record 2024 Results Live Nation reported $23.16B revenue (up 1.89%), $2.15B adjusted operating income (up 14%), serving 151M fans at 55,000 events with strong 2025 pipeline.

$5.18M total funding; $3.65M round June 2023 led by FinTech Collective, Ventures Platform; 400M messages annually; 30x ARR growth; 10K+ businesses

2017: Merged with LogMeIn (acquired Citrix GoTo business for $1.8B in 2016); serves 2M+ enterprises; ranked #5 video conferencing platform

2024 revenue $360M (up from $288M in 2023); valuation declined to ~$500M (down from $1.4B unicorn); total funding $544M

Feb 2024: Rebranded from MessageBird to Bird; slashed SMS prices 90% to compete with Twilio; 15,000+ customers