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Bobby Kotick, chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard, attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2019, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Microsoft first reached out to game publisher Activision Blizzard about a possible tie-up the same week a media report landed asserting that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
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Eric Schmidt , former chairman and CEO at Google. John Lamparski | Getty Images Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is planning to invest $125 million into artificial intelligence research through his philanthropic Schmidt Futures venture. The funding, set to be administered through an initiative dubbed AI2050, will aim to support academics working on
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Server chip Yitian 710, developed by Alibaba’s in-house semiconductor unit T-Head, on display during the Apsara Conference 2021 on Oct. 19, 2021 in Hangzhou, China. Xu Kangping | Visual China Group | Getty Images Global semiconductor sales topped half a trillion dollars for the first time, as companies ramped up production to meet demand amid
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Warren Buffett Gerald Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased about $1 billion worth of shares in Activision Blizzard in the fourth quarter, according to a regulatory filing, jumping in before Microsoft agreed to buy the video-game publisher for $68.7 billion. Berkshire owns 14.66 million shares valued at $975 million as of the end
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Citizens try out a virtual reality experience at the opening of Cheonan Qianshu Shopping mall, Shanghai, China, On December 22, 2021. Virtual reality is a key part of the concept of the metaverse. Xing Yun | Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Imagine this: the metaverse with Chinese characteristics. That’s how the virtual world
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A chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC Semiconductor stocks got whacked on Friday as investors digested hotter-than-expected inflation and increased tensions between Ukraine and Russia. Chipmakers had been boosted by increased demand during the pandemic and have generally reported strong earnings and outlooks in the past month. But investors are looking for less-risky
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In this article AMZN Photographer: Thorsten Wagner/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A former Amazon employee was sentenced Friday to federal prison for his involvement in an international bribery scheme. Rohit Kadimisetty, who worked as a seller support employee out of Amazon’s Hyderabad, India, office until 2015, was ordered to spend
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In this article TSLA A worker wearing a face covering exits a Tesla Inc. vehicle at the company’s assembly plant in Fremont, California, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A California civil rights agency sued Tesla this week, alleging racist harassment
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