Jack Ma’s Ant Unlikely to IPO Before 2022
Jack Ma's online financial services and digital payment platform is scrambling to come up with ways to comply with new rules in China.
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Airbnb, DoorDash IPO Valuations Expected to Pass $30 Billion, $25 Billion
Both companies are getting credit for generating positive free cash flows.
Zappos Founder Tony Hsieh Dies
Tony Hsieh, the co-founder of shoe retailer Zappos, died on Friday at the age of 46.
Snowflake Shares Jump 10% Ahead of First Earnings
As Snowflake heads into its first quarterly earnings as a public company, it has a new and potentially lucrative new service to talk about.
Stripe, SpaceX, Chime Had Largest Valuation Gains This Year
Record venture capital funding led to major valuation increases for these U.S. startups.
Black Tech Workers Blast Bias at Coinbase
More than a dozen Black Coinbase employees left the cryptocurrency startup in recent years, most due to racist or discriminatory treatment.
Facebook’s Libra Nears Launch But in More Scaled Back Format
The latest revision to Libra's plans is at least the second time the Facebook-led group has scaled back its ambitions.
UK Targets Facebook And Google With New Tech Regulator
It’s also the first major regulatory move from the UK government against the US-tech giants since the UK decided to leave the European Union, which is planning its own rewrite of the laws around online markets.
Alibaba and Tencent Held Talks to Buy Chinese Video Streaming App
The deal talks have stalled due to disagreements over price and concerns about Beijing's increasing antitrust scrutiny in the tech sector.
Apple to Move Some MacBook, iPad Production to Vietnam
Although Apple is moving some production to Vietnam, the country still lacks China’s labor pool, delivery infrastructure and supply chain of component makers.
Europe’s Web Summit To Return As In-Person Event In 2021
Web Summit's decision signals how the expected Covid vaccines may return life to normal next year.
Disney to Lay Off 32,000 Workers
Hard hit by Covid-19, Disney said it will lay off thousands, mostly from its theme parks, and more than it had previously announced.
AWS Cloud Outage Affects Adobe, Twilio, Roku
AWS rarely experiences major outages that affect customers for several hours, but today is one of those days.
Vettery Acquires Hired
The sale follows growing challenges for Hired, including the sudden resignation of the CEO announced on a Zoom call with employees.
New Extension Gives TikTok Parent More Time to Arrange Sale
The Trump administration extended its review of TikTok’s Chinese parent company, giving the video-sharing app more time to shape its pending sale.
Comcast Raising TV Prices Again
The price hikes are likely to fuel cord-cutting but that's not new for Comcast, which sees its primary business now as broadband.
SoftBank-Backed Compass Taps Bankers for IPO
Compass has raised more than $1.5 billion in equity capital since its 2012 founding, most recently at a $6.4 billion valuation.
Discord Valuation May Double to $7 Billion
Chat app Discord is in discussions with investors about a new round of capital.
Slack’s Stock Soars on Report of Salesforce Deal Talks
Shares of Slack jumped 21% on Wednesday after a report said that Salesforce had held talks to acquire the business messaging company.
ViacomCBS Sells Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann
Losing bidder News Corp complained that Bertelsmann was buying "market dominance" with a high priced offer.
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