Bill Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square USA, recently withdrew its plans for an initial public offering due to what appeared to be a lack of investor demand. This decision came shortly after the fund announced its intention to raise $2 billion, a significant decrease from the previously speculated $25 billion. Despite the setback, Ackman expressed
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As of Tuesday, the recall of Boar’s Head products has escalated to encompass a staggering 7 million additional pounds of deli and poultry items in a fatal multistate epidemic of listeria. This outbreak has afflicted 34 individuals in 13 states, resulting in 33 hospitalizations and two deaths in Illinois and New Jersey. The deli meat
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has decided to postpone the highly anticipated listing of Pershing Square’s U.S. closed-end fund. This decision was communicated through a notice on the New York Stock Exchange’s website. The initial public offering of Pershing Square USA Ltd., with the ticker PSUS, has been delayed with no specific date announced for the
The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike experienced a significant decline in shares following a major outage that affected businesses globally. The outage was a result of a defect found in a content update for Windows hosts, causing a multitude of different websites to go down, grounding planes and disrupting TV broadcasts. Shares of CrowdStrike plummeted 15% in
EU antitrust regulators have recently accepted commitments from Apple to grant access to its tap and go payments technology to competitors, following a four-year investigation. This decision marks a significant milestone in the efforts to promote competition and innovation in the mobile payments industry. The European Commission launched an inquiry into Apple Pay in 2020,
Etsy, the online marketplace that was once a haven for artisans and craft makers, has been experiencing a shift towards mass-produced, generic items in recent years. This influx of resellers has prompted Etsy’s CEO, Josh Silverman, to take action in an effort to return the platform to its roots. A major overhaul of the site’s
In recent years, the number of employment scams has increased significantly. Criminals are now leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence to trick unsuspecting job seekers into providing personal information and money. According to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center, consumer reports of job scams surged by 118% in 2023 compared to the previous
Target, a retail giant based in Minneapolis, has announced a new collaboration with Shopify in an effort to bring fresh and trendy brands to its website. This partnership will allow companies working with Shopify to apply to join Target Plus, a third-party marketplace launched by the discounter. In an interview with CNBC, Target’s Chief Guest
The competition in the field of artificial intelligence has been heating up recently with the announcement of Anthropic’s latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. As one of the many chatbots that have gained popularity in the past year, Claude is now being touted as the most powerful AI model released by Anthropic so far. With heavyweights
British newspaper groups have reacted strongly to Apple’s plans to introduce a “web eraser” tool that would block advertisements in the Safari browser. They have highlighted the potential threat this tool poses to the financial sustainability of journalism. The removal of ads or unwanted website content could significantly impact digital revenues in the industry, which
A recent legal battle between Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and Israel’s Bright Data involving data scraping has come to an end with a federal judge in California dismissing the lawsuit. X alleged that Bright Data was scraping data from X and selling it, using measures to avoid anti-scraping technology. The lawsuit also claimed violations
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