Google plans to buy cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion. Here’s why the startup is so valuable.

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  Alphabet to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion

  Google owner Alphabet has agreed to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion
  
  ABC News - 4h

• Google to acquire cloud security startup Wiz for $32 billion after deal fell apart last year

  Google signed a "definitive agreement" to acquire Wiz for $32 billion in an all-cash deal
  
  CNBC - 2h
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  Alphabet Spends $32 Billion to Buy Cybersecurity Startup Wiz

  If the deal for Alphabet to buy Wiz closes, it will become the company’s most expensive acquisition ever.
  
  Inc. - 3h

• Google parent Alphabet to buy Wiz cybersecurity firm for $32 billion

  The agreement comes after the cybersecurity startup rejected Google owner's original $23 billion proposal last July.
  
  CBS News - 4h
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  Google Seals $32 Billion Deal for Cyber Start-Up Wiz

  The acquisition could make the Silicon Valley giant a bigger force in cybersecurity, and arrives months after an earlier round of talks collapsed.
  
  The New York Times - 45m
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  Google’s parent to buy cybersecurity group Wiz in its biggest ever deal

  Alphabet’s acquisition of Israeli startup for $32bn follows rejection of takeover bid last summer. Business live – latest updates Google’s owner, Alphabet, has agreed to buy the cybersecurity ...
  
  The Guardian - 5h
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  Alphabet agrees to buy cyber security group Wiz for $32bn

  Previous round of negotiations to purchase group fell through last year
  
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