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The dating-app decade's marquee name closes out as a sub-scale private sale

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Bumble agrees to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3 billion, a premium over the roughly $1 billion figure reported in talks two days earlier, with founder Whitney Wolfe Herd recusing from the board's vote and Ithaca's Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman set to become co-CEOs.

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