Marvell to buy laser maker Lumentum, betting AI links move from copper to light
A chipmaker decides it needs to own the light
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iPhone up 17%, Mac up 24% in latest Apple quarterly report amid ongoing memory squeeze
Apple is selling more iPhones and Macs, but paying more for memory - somehow it all evens out.
DepEd’s MacBook Neo deal: near Apple’s educ price, with 5-year warranty
Roughly a teacher's price, plus 4 more years of warranty.
DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for $17B (about Php 1.1 trillion)
Two delivery memberships become one, in a year or two
DeepSeek raises $15B (Php 950B~) from CATL, Tencent and others
Doing more with less, now with a lot more.
Spotify Memberships let podcasters sell perks to fans and keep 90%
The tip jar now lives next to the play button
GCash goes public as GCASH on PSE after an IPO you could buy through its own mobile app
An app that sold a slice of itself to its own users
Samsung and SK hynix sink most since 2008 as China’s CXMT rides the RAM crunch
The overall memory sector continues to boom, yet Korea's memory giants faced their worst week in 18 years.
TSMC’s 2nm now makes 8% of its wafer revenue, up from 3% in Q2
TSMC went from 3nm to 2nm. Now the newest node grew up fast, and it's dragging margins with it.
Chinese firms shipped 97% of humanoid robots, and lead in robot hands too: SAG
Same playbook as EVs and drones, now with fingers.
Netflix lays off about 1,000 employees, mostly in product and tech teams
The cuts land hardest on the people who build the app.
Apple closes above $5 trillion for the first time, joining NVIDIA
Seven tries, and this time the number held.