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Nintendo's rumored OLED Switch may arrive in September. Nintendo's next-generation Switch could arrive in September or October in time for the holiday season, according to a report from Bloomberg. It may unveil the upgraded console ahead of the E3 conference starting June 12th and begin manufacturing it in July. (Steve Dent via Engadget)
Study shows people working from home are having sex, dating, taking naps and doing side hustles on company time. Americans are excessively eating, drinking, smoking pot, playing video games and watching porn while quarantined, I wrote back in April 2020. (Jack Kelly via Forbes)
Former WeWork chief's gargantuan exit package gets new sweetener. Nearly two years ago, SoftBank Group Corp. sought to part ways with WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann when it bailed out the shared-office company. It hasn’t been an easy divorce. (Eliot Brown via Wall Street Journal)
Shell Loses Climate Case That May Set Precedent for Big Oil. Royal Dutch Shell Plc was ordered by a Dutch court to slash its emissions harder and faster than planned, a ruling that could have far-reaching consequences for the rest of the global fossil fuel industry. (Diederik Baazil via Bloomberg)
Collab Capital closes $50 million debut fund to back Black founders. A decade before investing outside of San Francisco and New York became trendy, entrepreneurs Jewel Burks, Justin Dawkins and Barry Givens were betting on Atlanta. Each experienced first-hand the biases that disproportionately hurts Black founders… (Natasha Mascarenhas via TechCrunch)
Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion. Amazon has reached a deal to acquire the film and TV company MGM for $8.45 billion, the companies announced today. It’s a significant acquisition for the e-commerce giant, and it means it will own a library of content that’s reported to consist of around 4,000 films and 17,000 hours of TV. (Jon Porter via The Verge)
Snowflake goes remote and relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana. Snowflake, the cloud data analytics vendor that held the biggest U.S. software IPO ever last year, has become the latest tech company to jettison California. (Ari Levy via CNBC)
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