Intel has agreed to buy Classiq, an Israeli startup that makes software for programming quantum computers. The chipmaker announced the deal on Monday without giving a price, but it is worth about $2.3bn, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with …
Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s original eight team members, has written a first-hand account of Slack’s first two years inside Salesforce. It quotes Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s co-founder and former chief executive, throughout. Rodgers spent 11 years …
Skydance, the company formed by Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering some employees voluntary buyouts as it looks to cut costs. Co-chief executives David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz announced the programme in a memo to staff on…
Bending Spoons now owns Miro, the online whiteboard used by more than 250,000 organisations. The Milan group closed the all-cash Miro deal on Monday, it said in a statement on Business Wire. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Miro in September at an enterpri…
Only five of 60 analysts tracked by Bloomberg rate Tesla a sell, the lowest share since early 2015. Barclays upgraded the stock to overweight on Monday, calling a SpaceX merger “a key part of the Tesla bull case“, after BNP Paribas and CLSA dropped the…
Instacart is exploring a sale and has held at least preliminary talks with DoorDash and Uber. Valida Pau, Jessica E. Lessin and Cory Weinberg reported this for The Information on 23 October, citing people familiar with the matter. The grocery delivery …
Bose bought Skullcandy on Wednesday, the company said in a statement. The seller was a fund managed by Mill Road Capital Management, a private investment firm in Connecticut. Skullcandy joins McIntosh and Sonus faber in Bose’s group of audio brands. Sk…
Rivian has bought Third Dimension AI, a startup that turns real-world camera footage into 3D scenes. The carmaker will use them to train and test its driver assistance and self-driving software. Rivian announced the deal on Thursday and did not disclos…
Agility Robotics will use Nvidia’s IGX Thor modules as the only onboard computer in Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot. The company announced the deal on Thursday. Nvidia will be the exclusive supplier of onboard compute for the version th…
Some of the people working on a possible SpaceX-Tesla merger worry that Elon Musk’s public comments could draw shareholder scrutiny and delay the process by several weeks, Reuters reported on Thursday. Milana Vinn of Reuters heard this from a person wi…