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This week, Major League Baseball (MLB) became the first of the four major U.S. sports leagues to sign a CBD sponsor. The league is teaming up with Colorado CBD company Charlotte’s Web for a multi-year deal that includes a line of MLB-branded products. According to MLB, the deal will provide “increased CBD visibility to their professional athletes, millions of fans and communities.” Charlotte’s Web CEO Jacques Tortoroli joined finance to discuss the partnership, misconception about… Source link

Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company. The tech giant confirmed, in an email to EdSurge, that it’s picked up BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition does not appear to have been publicly announced. And Google declined to provide any details, including when the sale had taken place. But an email about the deal sent by Google to a school district in early May, obtained by EdSurge, cites May 17th as the expected date of the transaction. The… Source link

Twitter’s lawyers fired back at Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a court filing Thursday, accusing the company’s recalcitrant buyer of engaging in “mischief and delay” with his renewed bid for the company. Twitter said Musk’s latest proposal to buy the company for $44 billion can’t be trusted. The claim came in a court document opposing Musk’s earlier request on Thursday for a Delaware judge to halt the court proceedings against him in the parties’ merger deal gone sour. The case was set for… Source link

Donald Trump is fighting to get his media company off the ground and into public markets, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk keeps getting in his way with his effort to buy Twitter (TWTR). Shares of Digital World Acquisition Company (DWAC) — the blank-check company aiming to merge with Trump’s Truth Social — dropped over 4% on Tuesday on the news that Musk was reversing course and planned to purchase Twitter for $44 billion after initially trying to back out of the deal in July. Tuesday’s decline… Source link

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he wants to make the company 20% more efficient and that could include headcount cuts as it reckons with a slew of economic challenges as well as years of rapid hiring. Speaking at Code Conference in Los Angeles, Pichai gave more details about how he’s thinking of making the company… Source link

Signal officially has a new president. For the newly created position, the company behind the encrypted messaging app has hired Meredith Whittaker, a former Google manager and co-founder of the AI Now Institute. Whittaker made the announcement herself in a post on the Signal blog, where she outlined the strategic nature of the role in guiding the organization towards long-term sustainability. “As President I will dedicate myself to helping Signal build a long taproot so it can grow and… Source link

A group of Google employees are yet again speaking out against Google’s defense contracts, this time asking the company to shelve its $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract for the Israeli government and military. Google partnered with Amazon to bid for the project. Under employee pressure, Google has previously dropped one US government defence contract (Project Maven), and shied away from another (JEDI). In a video posted on Youtube, a group of Google employees including… Source link

A group of employees at Google is calling on the company to end its artificial intelligence contract with the Israeli government. Driving the news: Employee Ariel Koren resigned this week after she said Google tried to retaliate against her for opposing Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion artificial intelligence and computing services agreement between Google, Amazon Web Services, and the Israeli government and military, the New York Times reports. At an Alphabet Workers Union-led press conference… Source link

Twitter cofounder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has rarely lacked candor in describing the company he once led. In his latest assessment of the state of the social media platform, Dorsey said he regrets letting the app become a company at all. “The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it became a company,” Dorsey wrote in a recent tweet, replying to a question as to whether Twitter turned out the way he had originally wanted it to. Dorsey elaborated further on what his original vision… Source link

New York CNN Business  —  Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers. In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai,… Source link