The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft ~tech amazon apple facebook microsoft Article 618 words 15 votes
An Update from Essential: "we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential" ~tech Article 289 words 9 votes
The Sprint/T-Mobile merger: A jump-the-shark moment for antitrust? ~finance business Article 1919 words 7 votes
Finland's biggest game maker Supercell reported its full-year 2019 sales rose 2% to 1.39 billion euros ~games Article 269 words 5 votes
Brandless shuts down operations, becoming SoftBank Vision Fund's first failure ~finance business Article 827 words 8 votes
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars and its owner Chinese automaker Geely Holding are considering a merger deal ~transport Article 304 words 4 votes
US FTC files suit to block $1.37 billion acquisition of shaving company Harry’s by Edgewell (owner of Schick) ~finance business Article 490 words 7 votes
Norwegian company sues state over risky spy recruitment in Russia – intelligence agencies' clumsy approach to recruiting informants had caused the company financial loss ~finance business Link 6 votes
Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion ~tech internet Article 867 words 15 votes
MoviePass and its parent company have both filed for bankruptcy and will liquidate their assets ~movies Article 6 votes
Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs has been acquired by Garena for $150 million ~games Article 915 words 3 votes
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD ~tech google social media Article 1550 words 26 votes
Competition between video game streaming platforms is heating up as Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming lure away high-profile Twitch streamers with multi-million-dollar offers ~games Article 11 votes
Uber tests feature allowing some California drivers to set fares ~transport Article 92 words, published Jan 21 2020 5 votes
How stock buybacks made US CEOs and shareholders really rich ~finance business Video 10:08, published Oct 11 2019 10 votes
How IoT betrays us: Today, Sonos speakers. Tomorrow, Alexa and electric cars? ~tech Article 1444 words 19 votes
For years, Microsoft has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law. ~finance business Article 7164 words 21 votes
Boeing is in talks to borrow $10 billion or more as 737 Max crisis wears on in the US ~transport Article 142 words 9 votes
Luanda Leaks: How Africa’s richest woman exploited family ties, shell companies and inside deals to build an empire ~finance business Article 8591 words 8 votes
Finland's financial watchdog probes Nokia's October share crash – CEO Rajeev Suri denies that the company tried to keep its 5G troubles secret ~finance business Article 226 words 4 votes
DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say thirty to fifty affected ~tech Article 651 words 10 votes
Introducing the GamesIndustry.biz Academy, a new section of the site for guides on a variety of topics related to game development and the industry ~games Article 341 words, published Jan 8 2020 5 votes
Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? And what can we do about it? ~life work Article 1162 words, published Jan 9 2020 15 votes
Privatizing public services: Does it work? ~finance business Video 25:04, published Mar 3 2019 5 votes
Mozilla lays off seventy as it waits for new products to generate revenue ~tech Article 1043 words 27 votes
Epic Games Store has generated $680 million in revenue so far, largely from exclusives. Weekly free games will continue through 2020 ~games Article 1004 words 12 votes
Enron: The biggest fraud in all of history ~finance business Video 19:05, published Aug 30 2019 4 votes
Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner ~tech Article 1366 words, published Jan 9 2020 7 votes
GM will resurrect the Hummer name on an all-electric pickup truck to be sold under the GMC brand ~transport Article 80 words 4 votes
Billionaire’s company in talks to buy electric grid on Lanai ~finance business Article 297 words 7 votes
Fantasy Flight Games appears to have laid off at least ten staff, and is shutting down Fantasy Flight Interactive ~games.tabletop Article 560 words 6 votes
New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla's vehicles – but the company will face a more competitive market in 2020 ~transport Article 618 words, published Jan 3 2020 9 votes
Two of the top US dairy producers have filed for bankruptcy in two months ~finance business Link 10 votes
Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries ~tech privacy facebook social media Article 751 words 14 votes