May 6, 2020
Wed. 05/06 – Disney+ Is Saving Mickey’s Bacon At The Moment
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New Surface Gos, New Surface Books, New Surface Headphones and the Surface Buds finally arrive. The rumored layoffs come to Uber and Airbnb. Disney+ is saving Disney’s bacon at the moment. And why Peloton is one of those companies having a positive Corona moment.
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Links:
- Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor (The Verge)
- Microsoft's Surface Book 3 has 10th-gen Intel CPUs and new NVIDIA GPUs (Engadget)
- Uber to lay off 3,700 employees, about 14% of workforce (CNBC)
- The layoffs at Airbnb cast a dark shadow over Silicon Valley (Recode)
- Magic Leap is turning to a major health care company to save its future, potentially raising as much as $100 million (Business Insider)
- Disney says it now has 54.5 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC)
- People Are Panic-Buying Meat, Toilet Paper … and Pelotons? (NYTimes)
- Bitcoin Is Staging a Comeback Reminiscent of 2017 Bubble Frenzy (Bloomberg)
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