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Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint is buying cybersecurity firm Varonis for $49.75 a share, a $6.3 billion all-cash deal that consolidates who guards corporate data.

Canada's Fairfax Financial won the auction for a 60% stake in one of India's largest state-owned banks, betting on a rising middle class.

Netflix is laying off 6% of its workforce as YouTube and TikTok eat into its audience and analysts warn its subscription model may be hitting a ceiling.

The US Treasury fined Bank of America $1.2bn for letting over $5bn in suspicious transactions slip through, including deals tied to Chinese laundering networks and the southern border.

Hock Tan's blunt warning about AI hype sent chip stocks sliding across Asia, with Samsung down 7.4% and SK Hynix falling 10%.

A small Permian Basin driller's first horizontal wells are hitting commercial oil. The numbers are early, but the stakes are real.

BBC Panorama found the world's biggest accounting firm helped falsify documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and dodge taxes across two decades.

A White House committee will investigate Lisa Cook for mortgage fraud, reviving a removal effort the Supreme Court already blocked once.