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MERGE AND ACQUISITION
Salesforce to buy Rune in its most significant national security deal
Resilience Media reports Salesforce is paying $375m in cash and shares for Rune. The US Army and Marine Corps already use its software, and the Army awarded it a $99m contract in June.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Baseten set to more than double its value to $30bn, Bloomberg reports
Sands Capital is set to lead, with the round split between $26bn and $30bn prices. Baseten’s valuation stood at $13bn in June, after a $1.5bn round.
BUSINESS APPS
Slack’s founder got one hour with Benioff before the $27.7bn sale
Butterfield left after Salesforce put him on a Davos panel with will.i.am. Slack co-founder Cal Henderson says Salesforce’s sales team didn’t use or understand Slack.
SPACE
NASA asks industry to rescue Hubble before it falls from orbit
NASA wants a mission by 2032, before Hubble is likely to re-enter in 2033 or 2034. Its smaller Swift observatory, which a startup failed to rescue, is about to burn up.
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