U.S. semiconductor maker Analog Devices said on Monday it offered to buy Maxim Integrated Products, an industry peer, for $20.91 billion in an all-stock deal.
Yelp in April laid off 1,000 employees and furloughed roughly 1,100 more, as the coronavirus pandemic dramatically decreased consumer interest in going out due to social distancing mandates.
Described as a "sex party company," Killing Kittens is set to raise £340,000 from a crowdfunding campaign, with half of the cash coming from the U.K. government.
A massive cost-cutting drive helped the company shore up its finances while the coronavirus pandemic led to a robust demand in WeWork's flexible office space, chairman Marcelo Claure told the FT in an interview.
Content, distribution, technology -- it's all blurring together. The path that companies like Comcast, Netflix, Roku, Amazon, Apple and Disney choose will dictate how much they spend on content, their M&A strategies, and ultimately, their stock prices.
In light of protests for racial justice, facial recognition has come under scrutiny for how it's used by police, leading to IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft pulling back on this tech.
The move comes as TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, is drawing scrutiny over its ties to China and the potential for the Chinese government to access user data.
The moves this year are in character for Apple, which has prioritized privacy engineering on a product level and privacy more generally as a key selling point for its products.
Andy Hinton left Google in late March and is becoming an advisor to a start-up called #NotMe, which allows employees to make anonymous complaints about workplace issues, including the types of complaints Google has faced in recent years.
Marc Benioff once considered Oracle's Larry Ellison his mentor at Oracle. Then Benioff started his own company. Now Salesforce is worth more than Oracle.
It's a test version of the full software that will roll out to all iPhones this fall, and it includes a lot of fun new features. There are widgets on the home screen, for example, so you can see little windows that show the weather, photos, music controls and more.
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