The iPhone 16 went on sale Friday, the latest generation of Apple (AAPL) devices already flying over shelves and into consumer hands this morning.BofA Securities Senior IT Hardware Analyst Wamsi Mohan joins the Morning Brief to talk about Apple’s lead times as it hopes to push a product upgrade cycle with the new iPhone, despite…
One of India’s largest startups, budget hotel company Oyo, has reached a deal to acquire G6 Hospitality, which operates Motel 6. Oyo says it will pay Blackstone Real Estate $525 million in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition also includes the Studio 6 extended stay brand and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is calling for a full return to office at the start of 2025. For the last 15 months, employees have been expected to work in the office three days per week. Now employees will be expected to be in the office five days a week…
Flow, Adam Neumann’s co-living startup, opened a compound with 238 apartments in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, and Forbes has some details. The opening included an Aztec-themed hot chocolate ceremony and tote bags with the words “holy s— I’m alive” on them. The rent for the furnished units starts at $3,500 a month and includes hotel-style…
Elon Musk, the CEO of X and various other companies with the letter “X” in their names, is in regulators’ crosshairs after skipping testimony this month in an investigation related to Musk’s takeover of Twitter. In a filing today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that it intended to seek sanctions against Musk…
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Black Forest Labs, an image GenAI startup that only came out of stealth two months ago, has closed a a monster new round, sources say. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…
Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is suing Elon Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX, for $15 million after it allegedly dumped construction equipment all over the game company’s private land in Texas. An email, posted on Threads, went out to around 150,000 Cards Against Humanity Saves America donors…





