Microsoft’s proposed multibillion-dollar purchase of Activision Blizzard took a step closer to fruition on Friday as UK regulators said an amended version of the...
Month: September 2023
Another top Silicon Valley investor is splitting off its China business as pressure mounts
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GGV Capital, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has become the latest big investor to break up its US and China operations into...
Britain’s antitrust regulator said the companies had addressed its main concerns about the $69 billion deal, though final approval is yet to come.Read More
The Man Who Trapped Us in Databases
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Hank Asher was a drug smuggler with a head for numbers — until he figured out how to turn Americans’ private information into a...
A new mergers and acquisitions advisory firm launched last year by former Centerview Partners dealmakers has scored a big win by advising Cisco Systems...
YouTube on Thursday unveiled a slew of new artificial intelligence-powered tools to help creators produce videos and reach a wider audience on the platform,...
Black creators built TikTok. But Black employees say they experienced ‘toxicity and racism’
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Nnete Matima said she was attracted to work at TikTok because of how the social media platform was “really built upon Black culture” and...
CEO of DuckDuckGo Testifies in Google Case
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Gabriel Weinberg of the search engine DuckDuckGo was the first competitor to testify in the Justice Department’s antitrust trial against Google.Read More
The move leaves his son Lachlan as the sole executive in charge of the global media empire.Read More
Mr. Bankman-Fried and his allies have blasted Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York law firm managing FTX’s bankruptcy, for its tangled relationship with the...