December 22, 20210CommentsOnline training service Skillsoft acquires edtech company Codecademy for $525M in cash and stock; Codecademy raised $40M in February (Ben Dummett/Wall Street Journal)
December 22, 20210CommentsQ&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on meeting pandemic demand, relationships with Apple and Amazon, killing the Harmony remote line, USB-C, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
December 22, 20210CommentsSurvey of 1,058 US internet users: 72% distrust Facebook, 63% TikTok, 60% Instagram, 53% WhatsApp, and 53% YouTube; 53% trust Amazon, 48% Google, and 44% Apple (Washington Post)
December 22, 20210CommentsUS NHTSA opens an investigation into Tesla’s “Passenger Play” in-car gaming feature covering 580,000 vehicles from 2017 to 2022 (Tom Krisher/Associated Press)
December 22, 20210CommentsMongoDB has hired eight senior AWS executives in the past two years, making them CTO, VP of developer relations, head of partner marketing, and more (Joe Williams/Bloomberg)
December 22, 20210CommentsThe UK’s National Centre for Gaming Disorders, opened in 2019 in London, says ~70% of those treated were aged 18 or under and ~90% were male (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
December 22, 20210CommentsCanadian legal software maker Dye & Durham will acquire Australian data and back office services provider Link Group for about $2.5B (Harry Brumpton/Bloomberg)
December 22, 20210CommentsThe UK’s ad regulator bans two ads by Arsenal FC promoting its Socios-based Fan Tokens, saying the soccer club “failed to illustrate the risk of the investment” (Chris Vallance/BBC)
December 22, 20210CommentsIndia says it expects domestic chip production to start in the next 2-3 years; its $10B semiconductor incentive scheme begins taking applications on January 1 (Shruti Srivastava/Bloomberg)
