🤝 A black belt in M&A: Heavy equipment manufacturer CNH Industrial has long indulged in M&A to expand and add capabilities, but it had little exposure to startups. So it turned to one of its veterans, Michele Lombardi, who put together a strategy that resulted in a pipeline of successful deals. How did he do it? He started by talking and making connections. Read More
☎️ India's Bharti picks up a stake in BT: The U.K.'s former incumbent telecoms carrier is selling a 24.5% stake that's currently owned by Altice to Bharti, the operator of Indian telco Airtel. BT's current market cap of around $16 billion values that stake at about $4 billion. Read More
💶 The 10 largest GDPR fines on Big Tech: Europe began applying GDPR regulation in May 2018, but Big Tech firms have consistently tried to sidestep compliance. And they've been doing it so often that we decided to rank the biggest fines issued to date: Meta accounts for both the biggest fine so far (around $1.31 billion) and for the majority of the penalties (six or more!). Others on the list include Amazon, ByteDance and Alphabet. Read More
🖥️ Tesla's Dojo, a timeline: A couple weeks ago, I published a long-form piece on Tesla Dojo to explain what this supercomputer promises to be, and why it's important to the automaker's mission. This weekend, I've put together a neat timeline of the supercomputer to keep track of the promises made by Tesla and Elon Musk. Read More
🪦 RIP Susan Wojcicki: Wojcicki was a longtime Googler who spent a decade as the CEO of YouTube. She passed away on Friday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. The Silicon Valley veteran was the one who famously rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin as they started up Google. The tech world mourns her loss. Read More
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