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As more creator economy startups find buyers, I’ve been hearing talk about the possibility of rollups: one firm buying several similar businesses and combining them, saving on back-office costs while expanding their markets. So far, there’s more talk than action. The private equity firms who typically back such deals have made limited inroads into the creator economy. Generally, that’s due to the lack of profitable companies in the sector and their limited scale. But one area that’s already piqued PE intere
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leak of the underlying instructions for its Claude Code AI agent. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions ... that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub." From the report: Programmers combing through the... Read more ›
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I grew up hearing my dad say we don't have tomorrow. Now I prioritize family, travel, and living fully. Read more ›
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Walmart-owned Sam's Club told members that it is raising the price of its annual membership from $50 to $60 starting in May. Read more ›
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Tech group’s traded shares have zero votes, leaving shareholders without a voice Read more ›
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Honor has just made the Play 80 Pro official in China. The phone comes with a 6.8-inch LCD screen with 720x1610 resolution, 850-nit peak brightness, and seemingly a 60Hz refresh rate (since a higher one isn't mentioned anywhere on the official website). It's powered by the 5G-capable Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 SoC, and it's being offered in three RAM/storage configurations: 6/256GB, 8/256GB, and 12/256GB. The entry-level option is priced at... Read more ›
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Vibe coding may be easier than taking a class, but it has some unseen downsides that might eventually build up into major problems in the coding world. Read more ›
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In the EU, residents have been urged to work from home, while in the UK, motorists are being advised to drive less. Read more ›
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The moment you retire or reach "that certain age," even your own family starts looking through you instead of at you — not because they've stopped loving you, but because our culture has trained them to equate your worth with your job title and social media presence. Read more ›
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Here's a feature that would've been a lot more useful before this week. Amid recent hours-long airport lines, United is adding security wait times to its app. However, the feature arrives a few days after security lines began returning to normal. Hey, at least it'll be there for the next shutdown.At launch, the feature is only available for United's hub airports. That includes Chicago O'Hare, Denver, Houston, LAX, Newark, San... Read more ›
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There are rumors of alternative word suggestions for the iOS keyboard, but nothing is certain yet. Read more ›
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These Sony Xperia 1 VIII renders suggest the phone won't be the Xperia you remember. Read more ›
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And here I thought that half the point of over-the-air channels these days is so you don't need the internet… Read more ›
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Did you know that Google sells refurbished Pixel phones? Well, they do, and this week they have added the Pixel 8a to its offering. Pixel 8a joins the existing lineup of refurbished devices, which includes the Pixel 7a, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 7, and Pixel 7 Pro. Originally priced at $499, you can... Read the original post: Google Now Selling Refurbished Pixel 8a Read more ›
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Framework’s founder says Apple’s MacBook Neo isn’t repairable enough and is made with a different philosophy in mind. Read more ›
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New research suggests people are increasingly requesting blood donations from people not vaccinated against covid-19, despite no evidence supporting the practice. Read more ›
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Ikea's $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speaker is fun and colorful and sounds better than its price suggests. It's not mind-blowing (it is a $10 speaker, after all), and there are no features to speak of, other than the ability to connect up to 100 of them together, but at that price, I don't really care. They're […] Read more ›
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Amazon said customers can return items they bought on the commerce giant’s site at over 1,500 FedEx Office locations nationwide. Shoppers will be able to drop off unboxed items and won’t pay fees on the return. Encouraging customers to bring returns to drop-off points instead of having them ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube harmed a user’s mental health through negligence, defective product design and a failure to warn of the dangers of their products, a jury found on Wednesday. The decision was a landmark that is likely to affect the outcome in thousands of other cases alleging ... Read more ›
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SpaceX is likely to list the investment banks that are advising it on its mega initial public offering in alphabetical order on the prospectus, according to three people familiar with the process. That’s a departure from the norm, where the most senior bank is listed first on the filing in what ... Read more ›
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Blackstone is close to a deal to buy Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a major U.S. data center developer that builds campuses for large cloud providers, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The terms of the deal couldn’t be learned, but the company would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, people familiar with its financials said. The talks are ongoing, and the acquisition... Read more ›
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Sierra, an AI startup led by ex-Salesforce CEO Bret Taylor, unveiled a new product called Ghostwriter that builds AI agents for tasks such as customer service based on natural language prompts. While other software providers offer similar tools, the self-service aspect of ... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft ruled Wednesday that Musk’s damages expert, an economist at economic consulting firm Berkeley Research Group, is allowed to present his testimony at trial. The economist, C. Paul Wazzan, found that ... Read more ›
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Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock grants for senior executives that fully pay out only if the company’s market capitalization rises above $9.4 trillion by 2031, from $1.5 trillion now. Hours later, on Wednesday, we scooped the news that Meta was laying off hundreds of people. And hours after that, a jury in Los Angeles found Meta and Google’s... Read more ›
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A tidal wave of fast-growing AI startups has given venture capitalists many more shots to score winning investments. But competition to invest has never been more intense. That has made the partners who can secure stakes in sought-after startups all the more valuable. The Information asked over two dozen founders and investors about the individuals best positioned to become general partners—the top dealmakers who usually get the biggest share of... Read more ›
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Investments in AI startups such as Mercor and Skild AI helped advance three of 16 finalists in last year’s list of Next General Partners to higher positions, including to the role of general partner in their firms. These promotions reflect how AI continues to dominate venture capital investing. Last year’s finalists can’t credit just AI, however. Increased valuations for defense tech startup Anduril and expense software company Ramp also cast... Read more ›
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Anthropic has been on a tear in adding features to its Claude AI agents for coding and other white-collar work. The Claude agents now offer many of the features that turned OpenClaw, an open-source tool for developing personal AI agents, into a sensation.Claude’s new features include the ability to take over a person’s computer to perform complex tasks using any application, which Anthropic launched with great fanfare Monday night; take... Read more ›
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