A stealthy startup co-founded by a former senior designer from Apple and one of its ex-senior software engineers has picked up a significant round funding to build out its business. Humane, which has ambitions to build a new class of consumer devices and technologies that stem from “a genuine collaboration of design and engineering” that […]
Amazon CEO Unveils 55,000 Tech Jobs in His First Hiring Push
Amazon.com is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters. From the report: That’s equal to more than a third of Google’s headcount as of June 30, and close to…
Intuit In Talks To Buy Mailchimp For More Than $10 Billion
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks software, is in talks to buy email marketing firm Mailchimp for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. No final decision has …
WD、キオクシアと合併交渉との報道。実現性は疑問視
米ウエスタンデジタルとキオクシアホールディングス（旧東芝メモリホールディングス）との間で合併交渉が行われているとする報道が出ている。米WSJの報道によるもので、この報道では買収額は200億ドル、早ければ9月中旬にも合意に達するという内容。一方で日経新聞によると「上場準備の基本路線は変わっていない」として、キオクシア側はこの報道を否定するニュアンスであるようだ（WSJ、日経新聞、M＆A Online）。
Bloombergなどの記事によれば、この合併を成立させるためには日本政府およびキオクシアに出…
Shop prices rise amid driver shortages and Brexit red tape
Retail data shows 0.4% month-on-month increase in August, with 0.6% rise in non-foodUK shop prices rose last month, according to the latest data from the British Retail Consortium, in a sign that driver shortages and the costs of Brexit-induced red tap…
Shell aims to install 50,000 on-street EV charge points by 2025
Oil firm sets out plans to provide a third of Britain’s network needed to hit climate targetsShell has announced its aim to install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK over the next four years, in an attempt to provide a th…
We can’t build our way out of the environmental crisis | George Monbiot
New infrastructure projects are all the rage, post-pandemic. But who benefits from a rising tide of concrete?Dig for victory: this, repurposed from the second world war, could be the slogan of our times. All over the world, governments are using the pa…
石油会社との関係に終止符？ 米国の広告代理店が迫られる「苦渋の決断」
米国で石油会社やガス会社を相手取った訴訟が相次いでいる。化石燃料の使用が気候変動に与えた影響について国民を欺いたという理由だが、その影響が化石燃料企業をクライアントにもつ広告代理店へも広がり始めた。訴訟の当事者になるリスクも生じるなか、クリエイティヴ業界を中心に化石燃料企業との関係を断つ動きがあるのだ。
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Olsam raises $165M to buy up and scale consumer and B2B Amazon Marketplace sellers
On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to do the same is announcing some significant funding of its own. Olsam, a roll-up play that is buying up both consumer and B2B merchants selling […]
「No.5」が作れなくなる？ シャネル、フランス南東部でジャスミン畑を買い増し
ちなみに、シャネルNo.5を1瓶作るのに1000本のジャスミンの花が必要だといいます。