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Elon Musk Lands Deal to Take Twitter Private for $44 Billion

Elon Musk Lands Deal to Take Twitter Private for $44 Billion

(Bloomberg) — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion, using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take private a 16-year-old social networking platform that has become a hub of public discourse and a flashpoint in the debate over online free speech. Most Read from Bloomberg Investors will receive $54.20 for each Twitter share they own, the company said in a statement Monday. The price is 38% more than the stock’s close on April 1, the… Source link

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Google internet cable lands in Africa, promising fast connection

The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in this picture illustration taken September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register DAKAR, March 18 (Reuters) – A subsea cable owned by Google (GOOGL.O) that promises to double internet speeds for millions in Africa arrived in Togo on Friday, the company said, the latest step in a multi-year project to provide cheaper access to users across the continent. The Equiano cable, the first of… Source link

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‘Legendary’ consumer resilience in the face of inflation: Lands’ End CEO

With inflation setting a new 40-year high for the month of February, the Federal Reserve looks to pump the brakes on surging prices with the first rate increases since 2018. In light of these inflationary pressures, Lands’ End (LE) CEO Jerome Griffith believes that the outlook for American consumers is optimistic. “I think people are generally concerned about inflation out there. But at the same time, you know, people are still out spending,” he told Yahoo Finance Live. “The resiliency… Source link

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Sunisa Lee lands never-before-seen Nabieva

Sunisa Lee remains good at gymnastics, be it the Olympics or the collegiate level. The Tokyo Games gold medallist put on a show in a meet against Kentucky, highlighted with her performance of the nabieva on the uneven bars, a maneuver that had never been seen before in college gymnastics. The nabieva consists laying out vertically over the high bar, swinging around, then passing over the bar backwards before grabbing it again. It’s an exceptionally difficult skill, rated as a “G,” the hardest… Source link

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AI navigation startup Phiar lands ex-Google manager, funding from Telenav

Sept 27 (Reuters) – Phiar, a startup aiming to enhance in-car navigation systems by overlaying directions on real-time video, announced on Monday that Google’s head of Android automotive platforms joined as chief executive and State Farm Ventures led a $12 million funding round. Incoming CEO Gene Karshenboym said other new investors include mapping company Telenav, which was taken private by its co-founder in February, and SoftBank Vision Fund-backed driving analytics app developer Cambridge… Source link

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IBM lands hybrid cloud deal with telcos

IBM has inked hybrid cloud deals with global telecommunication giants Verizon (VZ) and Spain’s Telefonica (TEF), as the company that created the personal computer aims to build out 5G and edge networks. The deal builds on existing partnerships IBM (IBM) has with the two telecom operators. No financial terms were disclosed. In an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Howard Boville, IBM’s Senior Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Platform, said this is an “existential moment for telco… Source link

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Google Cloud lands its largest Latin America deal, with media powerhouse Grupo Globo

Over the past year, Google Cloud has focused its strategy in great part on pursuing media customers undergoing a digital transformation. On Wednesday, Alphabet’s GOOGL, +0.88% GOOG, +0.70% Google Cloud division said it landed its biggest deal yet in Latin America, a seven-year strategic partnership with Brazil’s largest media company, Grupo Globo, a privately-held, multibillion-dollar giant that is in the midst of a… Source link

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Amazon Music lands on Google TV and Android TV devices

is now available on Google TV and devices. Users in the US, UK, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, India, Japan and Australia will be able to stream music from the service through TVs, set-top boxes, game consoles and speakers that run on Android TV. If you’re an Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber, you can listen to more than 70 million songs through those devices, as well as thousands of stations and playlists. Amazon Prime members can check out around two million tracks… Source link

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