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In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-18 Google

Leaked email: the US CFPB plans a 50% reduction in supervisory activities and a shift in focus from fintech companies back to traditional banks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-18 Fintech

Global Payments acquires the 45% stake in Worldpay that Fidelity still owned and buys the 55% held by PE firm GTCR, in a deal valuing Worldpay at $24.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17

The US FDA cleared Neuralink rival Precision Neuroscience in late March 2025 to offer a less invasive brain implant; the device contains 1,024 metal electrodes (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17

TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says “TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture”, after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 Intel

Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery service Yodel, boosting its UK market share from 2% to ~8% and delivering 300M+ UK parcels annually (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 Poland

TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17

Sources: Perplexity is in discussions to integrate its AI assistant on Samsung's devices and has reached an agreement to preload Perplexity on Motorola's phones (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 Samsung AI

FTC challenges ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg over past emails; she called Google+ a “real” competitor in 2011 and discussed blocking its ads on Facebook in 2012 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 Google Facebook

Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in a 2024 funding deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 AI

Medicare broker Chapter, which was co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and uses AI to aggregate comprehensive plan data, raised $75M at a $1.5B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 AI Medicare

Infinite Reality, which recently bought Napster, acquires AI customer support startup Touchcast for $500M in cash and stock, valuing Infinite Reality at $15.5B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Startup AI

US credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales rose 29% YoY in March and 38% YoY in April's first 11 days, while Temu rose 46% and 60%, ahead of US tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16

FOI documents: Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to YouTube that it would be exempt from a teen social media ban (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Australia YouTube Ban

Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator HF0, whose alumni include OpenSea's founders; HF0's latest fund is $100M, up from its previous $16M fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Startup San Francisco

Analysis: stablecoins' market value rose ~4.5% from the end of February to a new high of ~$234B in April, as crypto traders sat out the market volatility (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16

A 2018 email from Mark Zuckerberg explored spinning off Instagram; he testified his thinking at the time took into account where politics seemed to be going (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Instagram Zuckerberg

The valuation of Kavak, a Mexico City-based online used car dealer and LATAM's most valuable startup, was cut by $6.5B to $2.2B in a $127M equity round in March (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Mexico Startup Equity

In a rare move for the country, China names three alleged NSA staffers who, they claim, were part of cyberattacks against the Asian Winter Games and Huawei (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 China

Source: Anthropic could launch a “voice mode” feature for Claude as soon as this month, which will initially roll out on a limited basis (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16

FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg testified about his acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, including a 2012 email exchange rationalizing the apps' acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16 Instagram WhatsApp Zuckerberg

Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a position worth $1.5B+ in HPE, making it one of the company's top five shareholders; HPE is down ~30% in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-16

Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15 IOS AI Apple

US satellite startup Astranis and Taiwanese telco Chunghwa plan to launch a dedicated MicroGEO satellite by the end of 2025, with full bandwidth as soon as 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15 Taiwan Startup

An interview with eFishery CEO Gibran Huzaifah and 20+ sources detail how Gibran's “fake-it-till-you-make-it” deceptions spiraled, losing investors $300M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15 Interview

Japan's FTC orders Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers, ahead of high-stakes US trade negotiations this week (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15 Japan Google

India plans to add 200M-300M UPI users, including via delegated accounts for kids, and pitch UPI abroad; PwC: India makes up ~46% of global digital transactions (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15 India

Science Corp., which was started by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak to develop a retina and brain implant system, raised over $100M led by Khosla Ventures (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15

Sources: banks are providing Silver Lake $2B in debt for its 51% acquisition of Altera; Intel will receive ~$3.4B in cash from Silver Lake as part of the deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15 Intel Silver

Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in beta versions of iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-15 IOS AI Apple

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