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Live Nation and Ticketmaster got hit with a U.S. antitrust lawsuit. The Department of Justice has been probing monopoly allegations against the ticket sellers since a Taylor Swift ticket uproar in late 2022.
Tesla released new data on its Autopilot technology. The electric vehicle maker claimed that Autopilot-enabled cars were 11 times safer than other cars not equipped with the software ā but the data comparison to get to that figure isnāt apples to apples.
Oreo maker MondelÄz is paying the European Union a hefty fine over the chocolate trade. The company will have to pay $366 million for limiting cross-border sales of its chocolate, biscuit, and coffee products.
Big Tech just committed to removing as much carbon as the state of California. But itās just a fraction of the carbon removal that would be required for the world to reach net-zero emissions.
The number of 401(k) millionaires has hit a record. New data from Fidelity found that record-high contributions and a healthy stock market are driving up gains.
Googleās largest-ever deal is all about the cloud
Google parent Alphabet is reportedly making headway in its bid to acquire the $30 billion marketing software company HubSpot. That deal, which would be Googleās largest-ever acquisition, is part of the companyās strategy to compete with Microsoft in the cloud applications market.
Google could use the boost. While itās currently the worldās third-largest cloud services provider, it holds less than half of the market share of Microsoft. Donāt even mind Amazon ā it controls a third of the whole market.
Googleās dreams may be up in the clouds, but itās on a much more even playing field with Microsoft in the AI space.
Quotable: New Boeing planes arenāt in the clouds
āWe canāt rush. We canāt push the factory too hard or the system too hard because the payoff, if we do this right, is going to be big beyond 2025, and thatās what weāre aiming at.ā ā Boeing CFO Brian West speaking at the Wolfe Research Global Transportation & Industrials Conference on Thursday in New York City
The companyās 737 Max cash burn just keeps burning, and Boeing expects to send more money than planes out the door in 2024.
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