By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) -Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people’s cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving the way for a possible August...
By Pritam Biswas and Lananh Nguyen(Reuters) -Jefferies Financial’s profit more than tripled in the fourth quarter as the investment bank earned higher fees from advising on deals and underwriting activity remained strong, it reported on Wednesday. Ebullient...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Point72 Asset Management has hired Todd Hirsch, a former senior managing director at Blackstone, to head a new strategy focused on the fast-growing private credit business, according to an internal statement seen by Reuters.Steve Cohen, the...
(Reuters) -AI startup Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion in a deal valuing the OpenAI rival at $60 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.Venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading...
(Reuters) – Paramount Global has renewed its distribution deal with Comcast, the companies said on Tuesday, ensuring the cable systems and services provider continues to offer the media giant’s channels like CBS and Nickelodeon.The deal, terms of which...
By Karen Freifeld(Reuters) – A technology industry group on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden’s administration to refrain from issuing a last-minute rule that would control global access to AI chips, warning the restrictions would jeopardize U.S....