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After Adobe collapse, Figma deal allows employees to sell shares at $12.5 billion valuation
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, speaks at the startup’s Config conference in San Francisco on May 10, 2022. Figma Figma, a cloud-based design tool company, said Thursday it will allow investors, including current and former employees, to sell their shares in a tender offer that values the company at $12.5 billion. That’s up […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Wall Street hits record, ‘Thee rate cuts’
The Charging Bull is seen on an empty Wall Street on April 20, 2020 in New York City. Eduardo MunozAlvarez | View Press | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter […]
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David Tepper’s Appaloosa is betting big on Chinese tech stocks
Billionaire investor David Tepper’s hedge fund increased its bets on Chinese tech stocks during the first three months of 2024, while dialing back exposure to some key domestic names. Appaloosa Management’s quarterly report on Wednesday showed that Alibaba is now its top holding after buying several hundred million dollars worth of shares. Similarly, the fund […]
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Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base
Nikesh Arora CEO & Chairman Palo Alto Networks, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Palo Alto Networks is buying cloud security software assets from IBM as part of a broader partnership that will give the cybersecurity company access to more […]
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Dell surges 9% on optimism it has secured big AI server orders
Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, is speaking at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 27, 2024. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Dell shares rose more than 9% on Wednesday to an all-time high after Morgan Stanley raised its price target and predicted that the company would […]
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Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Amazon-backed Anthropic
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger will join artificial intelligence firm Anthropic as chief product officer, the company announced Wednesday. Krieger, the former chief technology officer of Meta-owned Instagram, grew the platform to 1 billion users and increased its engineering team to more than 450 people during his time there, […]
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Amazon’s visual appearance at Upfronts highlights thrust outside of digital adverts and into regular media
Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Photographs Amazon has come to be a expanding menace to electronic ad incumbents Meta and Google, attracting billions of pounds a quarter from brand names that are making an attempt to attain the masses of shoppers who swarm to the website on a daily foundation. But it is no […]
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YouTube suggests it will block videos of Hong Kong protest anthem subsequent court docket order
Hundreds of Hong Kongers sang the protest anthem and chanted slogans across the town on June 12, 2020 as they marked the a single yr anniversary of main clashes between law enforcement and professional-democracy demonstrators. Sopa Illustrations or photos | Lightrocket | Getty Visuals Alphabet’s YouTube on Tuesday mentioned it would comply with a court […]
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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever suggests he will go away the startup
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he is leaving the Microsoft-backed startup. “I am excited for what will come up coming — a project that is really personally meaningful to me about which I will share facts in due time,” Sutskever wrote in an X publish on Tuesday. The departure arrives months right after […]
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Google CEO Pichai claims enterprise will ‘sort it out’ if OpenAI misused YouTube for AI teaching
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Stanford’s 2024 Company, Authorities and Modern society forum in Stanford, Calif., on April 3, 2024. Loren Elliott | Bloomberg | Getty Pictures Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned Google will “form it out” if it establishes Microsoft-backed OpenAI relied on YouTube material to prepare an artificial intelligence design that can […]
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