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- Brian might have discovered the right MacE-book: Brian offers us the ins and outs of the brand new Apple MacE-book Pro 14-inch M2 Max, through which he writes, “It’s a reaffirmation of the ‘Pro’ in MacBook Pro: chunky, heavy, blazingly fast, full of ports and packed with the best the company has to offer.” This could be the 2023 model of “Mikey likes it!” Meanwhile, Matt critiques the 2023 Mac Mini, what he calls “a critical contender with the M2 Pro.
- Sounds like extra layoffs: Another tech firm reveals that its eyes have been greater than its abdomen in relation to hiring. This time, Spotify is the one slicing jobs, Romain experiences. The music streaming firm will lay off about 600 folks, or 6% of its workforce.
- Give ’em one thing to ChatGPT about: After a lot hypothesis, Microsoft confirmed that it’s going to make investments an undisclosed variety of billions in OpenAI, thus extending the businesses’ partnership. Kyle has extra.
Startups and VC
TechCrunch Live is coming into its third season, and Matt is, frankly, ludicrously psyched to be main the occasions once more this 12 months. The first occasion is on February 1, 2023, and can function a well timed dialogue on what to do if your organization can’t increase a Series A. Cambly’s Sameer Shariff and Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel are talking on the first one — keep tuned for what’s coming down the pike!
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Failures are worthwhile IP: Protect your startup’s destructive commerce secrets and techniques
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Patent functions and GitHub codespaces are apparent items of mental property, however so are the embarrassing errors and lifeless ends that each firm encounters.
Rivals can be taught rather a lot from rivals’ failed A/B assessments, unsuccessful electronic mail campaigns and wasted engineering cycles, writes Eugene Y. Mar and Thomas J. Pardini, attorneys with Farella Braun + Martel LLP in San Francisco.
In this put up, they provide recommendation for safeguarding your “negative know-how,” together with normal suggestions for outlining and managing commerce secrets and techniques.
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Big Tech Inc.
Just when Salesforce thought it was secure to return within the water, the corporate now has an activist investor coming in and taking a multibillion-dollar stake. Ron writes that whereas Elliott Management is trying ahead to working with Salesforce, there may very well be one thing else behind it: “Elliott typically takes a stake in a company to make changes in the way the company operates with the goal of cutting costs and increasing shareholder value. In some cases, it tries to push CEO changes or even sell the company, although that seems less likely in this case.” You be the decide.
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