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Private equity firms are struggling to sell the software companies they acquired in a buying frenzy in 2021 and 2022, even though they enjoyed a rebound in sales for such companies last year. The lack of deals could force more PE firms to sell their holdings at a lower price, or even at a discount to the original deal price.
Sales did pick up last year but not enough to make a dent in the holdings they accumulated in the boom years. Last year PE exits, either public listings or sales, rose 76% measured by.
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Left Field cofounders Kate Sieler and Samantha Martin made it to Shark Tank's stage. Here's how they left with $200,000. Read more ›
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The European Commission has started proceedings to ensure Google complies with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in certain ways. Specifically, the European Union’s executive arm has told Google to grant third-party AI services the same level of access to Android that Gemini has. "The aim is to ensure that third-party providers have an equal opportunity to innovate and compete in the rapidly evolving AI landscape on smart mobile devices," the... Read more ›
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Melania Trump has made the first lady role her own by straying from presidential protocol and long-held White House traditions. Read more ›
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The shift could set troops up to better mix in new weapons like specialized Abrams tanks, drones, and artificial intelligence in command and control. Read more ›
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An HR expert explains the most common mistakes women make when returning to work after a career break and how to avoid them. Read more ›
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FLORA streamlines creative workflows by integrating AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini for teams at brands such as Lionsgate and Levi's. Read more ›
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Samsung's much-anticipated Galaxy Z Trifold goes on sale on this Friday, January 26th, and the price is every bit as steep as we'd feared: $2,899, which gets you 512GB of storage and a phone that kind of wants to be a tablet all the time. The Trifold first premiered in Korea late last year, so […] Read more ›
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A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both. Despite the burning in his eyes, the young man keeps trying to get the woman upright — until a pack of masked, camouflaged officers wrestle him to the street. They beat […] Read more ›
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More than 275 employees signed a letter to Target leadership that outlined four steps they say the company should take in response to ICE. Read more ›
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While living abroad, I improved my relationship with food and the grocery shopping habits I'd curated in the US to live a better, healthier life. Read more ›
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As more tech executives weigh in on the weekend’s fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff this week that he believes “ICE is going too far,” according to a copy of the internal memo published by the New York Times’ DealBook. “There is a big ... Read more ›
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We quit our full-time jobs and opened an inn before turning 40. We were a little nervous about becoming young innkeepers, but it's been an advantage. Read more ›
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Jon Stewart has responded to the shooting of nurse Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis. Read more ›
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As promised, Samsung is bringing its Galaxy Z Trifold smartphone to shoppers in the US. The unique foldable goes on sale on January 30. The phone was announced along with its select markets' sale dates at the close of 2025. We didn't have price information for Samsung's domestic market at that time, and even though we were anticipating the Galaxy Z Trifold to cost a bundle, the actual cost is... Read more ›
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The Federal Reserve will likely hold rates steady at its January meeting, even as Jerome Powell faces mounting pressure from Trump amid the DOJ probe. Read more ›
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Apple has just updated some ancient handsets, ensuring they stay functional for longer. Read more ›
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Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers. Read more ›
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AI startups talk a lot these days about how their products will be revolutionary by automating white collar work. But it’s rarer to hear messy stories about the hiccups AI startups face when trying to build such products for businesses, or the awkward situations that can arise when they roll out their own technology internally. That makes a recent podcast with an xAI engineer—who left the company shortly after it... Read more ›
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TikTok’s U.S. business may be about to take off. The scheduled completion this week of TikTok’s sale of its U.S. data security arm to a joint venture ends years of uncertainty about its future in the U.S. And the video app maker is now redoubling its efforts to build a much bigger e-commerce business in the U.S., in a new challenge to Amazon. Read more ›
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Fintech startup Checkbook began with the promise to help banks eliminate paper checks and transformed itself into an international payments company that leveraged a relationship with JPMorgan Chase to give all manner of customers access to the U.S. financial system. JPMorgan recently told Checkbook it was winding down its relationship with the firm rather than face the regulatory risks associated with handling some of those customers, which included Venezuelan crypto... Read more ›
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China is letting AI and semiconductor startups go public at a furious pace. Since December, two developers of large language models and four designers of graphics processing units have listed on stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai, raising a total of over $4 billion. At least two more are in the pipeline. Kunlunxin, the chip arm of Baidu, is seeking to raise up to $2 billion in Hong Kong,... Read more ›
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In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a glitzy night out in Washington: a White House state dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Brockmans were among a broad contingent of tech elite in attendance at the fete, hosted by President Donald Trump. Soon after the event, the Brockmans posted pictures of themselves posing with Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and his... Read more ›
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Tammy Savage, a former Microsoft general manager; Gerry Campbell, a longtime search executive who has worked at AOL and Alta Vista; and John Abowd, a professor emeritus of economics, statistics and data science at Cornell University were named in a filing from the Department of Justice on ... Read more ›
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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company’s push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, will transition out of leading product and engineering for OpenAI’s business of selling to other enterprises but... Read more ›
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Last fall, Apple’s software chief, Craig Federighi, delivered a warm message to a meeting of the company’s combined software and AI groups. Federighi said he was excited about deeper collaboration between his software team and Apple’s AI group. But then came Federighi’s criticism. He added that he liked moving fast and feeling the “wind at his back,” but in recent years he had felt Apple hadn’t been moving as quickly... Read more ›
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OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the people said. OpenAI is asking that small pool of advertisers for less than $1 million in spending commitments... Read more ›
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Brex’s $5.15 billion agreement to sell to Capital One isn’t the kind of exit employees or investors would have dreamed of four years ago, when it was valued privately at $12.3 billion. But it appears to be a good enough ending to the corporate credit card startup’s run as a private company. For one, the half-cash, half-stock deal gives Brex shareholders the kind of instant payday another private round or... Read more ›
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