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Global Payments shares plunge 17% on $24 billion Worldpay deal
The Global Payments Company logo seen displayed on a smartphone.Igor Golovniov | LightRocket | Getty ImagesGlobal Payments shares tumbled 17% on Thursday after the company said it is buying Worldpay for more than $24 billion while…
Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy
3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data.
Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter…
Meet Partiful, the Gen Z party-planning staple that’s taking on Apple
Partiful's CEO, Shreya Murthy, and CTO, Joy TaoCourtesy: PartifulWhen Shreya Murthy and Joy Tao decided to launch a party-planning startup in 2020, they settled on a business goal of "bringing people together in person."The Covid-19…
A new kids’ show will come with a crypto wallet when it debuts this fall
A new animated kids’ series expected to premiere this year won’t be headed for a TV network. Or a streaming service. Instead, the founders of production studio We Ghosted Media plan to launch on a decentralized web platform that uses…
Google hit with second antitrust blow, adding to concerns about ads
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesGoogle's antitrust woes are continuing to mount, just as the…
Nintendo Switch 2 retail preorder to begin April 24 following tariff delays
An attendee wearing a Super Mario costume uses a Nintendo Switch 2 game console while playing a video game during the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience at the ExCeL London international exhibition and convention centre in London, Britain,…
Bluesky may soon add blue check verification
Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at.
The blue checks may have a similar look to the system…
How quantum computing could supercharge Google’s AI ambitions
Inside a secretive set of buildings in Santa Barbara, California, scientists at Alphabet are working on one of the company's most ambitious bets yet. They're attempting to develop the world's most advanced quantum computers."In the…
OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B
When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the mind of anyone following the space was likely: “Why not buy Cursor creator Anysphere instead?”
After all,…
Etsy touts ‘shopping domestically’ as Trump tariffs mean price hikes
An employee walks past a quilt displaying Etsy Inc. signage at the company's headquarters in the Brooklyn.Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEtsy is trying to make it easier for shoppers to purchase products from local merchants…
Discord sued by New Jersey over child safety features
Jason Citron, CEO of Discord in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesThe New Jersey attorney general sued Discord on Thursday, alleging that the company misled consumers about child safety…
AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company
Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming a company called Arena Intelligence Inc., reports Bloomberg.
In a blog post published Thursday, Chatbot Arena…
TSMC denies it’s talking to Intel about chip-making joint venture
A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Daniel Ceng…
xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables the bot to remember details from past…
Former CISA chief Krebs leaves SentinelOne after Trump exec order
Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine claims of voter irregularities in the 2020 election, in the Dirksen…
Bluesky feed builder Graze raises $1M, rolls out ads
Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company’s small…
Spotify restores service after Wednesday outage
The Spotify logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 4, 2023.Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersSpotify was down Wednesday, with about 50,000 reports of an outage on DownDetector.The company posted an…
Chip equipment giant flags tariff uncertainty
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday missed order expectations and said that uncertainty from new U.S. trade restrictions may affect demand for its critical chipmaking machines.ASML…