PayPal is exploring Pinterest acquisition
San Jose, California-based PayPal has recently approached Pinterest about a potential deal, the people said, asking not to be identified because the talks are private
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Posts from 2021
All articles published in 2021.
Facebook fined $69.6 million in the UK for Giphy takeover
After Facebook acquired the popular GIF repository Giphy (reportedly for $400 million), the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched an investigation to determine if the merger would lessen competition
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WHO hired company to copy Moderna
The World Health Organization has hired the company, called Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, as part of a $100 million plan to figure out how to make an mRNA vaccine against COVID that is as close as possible to the version produced by Moderna.As to why WHO has chosen to try to copy Moderna rather than the other mRNA COVID vaccine, which is made by Pfizer BioNTech, Friede says the choice was practical."Moderna has reiterated on several occasions that they will not enforce their intellectual property during the pandemic," says Friede
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DoorDash v San Francisco
Last Friday, the city rejected allegations that its cap of fifteen percent on the commissions that third-party food delivery service platforms charge independent restaurants contravenes state and federal law
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DoorDash and Uber Eats is gaining on Grubhub
Note that this is a share-price chart and not representing the sales of the various companies
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Netflix is reopening a movie theater in SoCal
Netflix will reopen the Bay Theatre at Palisades Village in Southern California beginning October 22nd, becoming the third physical theater with which the streamer has announced a partnership.The company previously reopened the Paris Theater in New York in 2019, and it's working to restore the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood for a reopening in 2022
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This week's earnings call
On Monday (Oct 18) there's: AlbertsonsPhilipsSteel DynamicsState Street On Tuesday (Oct 19): HalliburtonProcter & GambleJohnson & JohnsonPhilip Morris InternationalWD-40Netflix On Wednesday (Oct 20): Abbott LaboratoriesBiogenNextEra EnergyVerizon CommunicationsTeslaIBMAnthem On Thursday (Oct 21): Southwest AirlinesValero EnergyQuest DiagnosticsAT&TSL Green RealtyIntelSnap On Friday (Oct 22): WhirlpoolHoneywellSeagate Technology HoldingsAmerican Express I'll definitely watch out for Tesla, Netflix and Intel
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And there's a new MacBook Pro
There's an option of M1 Pro and M1 Max, which does up to 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU
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