PE firm Advent agrees to buy Maxar, which operates a constellation of satellites that collects images used by Google Maps and others, for $6.4B, including debt (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)

Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
State Farm will invest $1.2B in ADT for a ~15% stake, and $300M more for product innovation; Google invests $150M toward new products, pledges $150M more  —  Insurer to buy 15% of ADT and make product investment of up to $300 million  —  ADT Inc. ADT 16.37%▲ has secured investments …

Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
SpaceX gets FCC approval to deploy up to 7,500 next-generation Starlink internet satellites in low Earth orbit; SpaceX had applied for nearly 30K satellites  —  – The FCC issued a key authorization to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, granting approval to launch up to 7,500 of its next-generation Starlink internet satellites.

Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Amazon plans to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype internet satellites in early 2023 on the new Vulcan rocket developed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin  —  Two prototypes would launch early next year as Amazon seeks to build a constellation that would eventually grow to 3,236 satellites …

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Dell agrees to pay $1B to settle a shareholder lawsuit over a $23.9B stock conversion in 2018; investors alleged the transaction was billions below market value  —  Dell Technologies Inc. agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a shareholder lawsuit relating to a controversial 2018 stock conversion transaction.

Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk:
ConsenSys says it collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask, following a similar announcement by decentralized exchange Uniswap  —  The firm said when using Infura as an RPC on MetaMask, a user’s IP address and wallet address information would also be collected.

Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: seeking to increase profits, Coinbase hired Wall Street traders and explored using its own cash to trade crypto in 2021, including a $100M transaction  —  The company completed a $100 million transaction before ending the effort.  It says that it hasn’t engaged in proprietary trading.