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...Mubadala has invested in or alongside a number of big Silicon Valley firms, including private equity group Silver Lake and Sequoia Capital....
...Big Tech groups such as Google and Facebook then accessed that information to help build multibillion-dollar online advertising businesses....
...The shift makes Citadel Securities the latest financial services company to increase its reliance on Big Tech cloud services and is a win for Google as Silicon Valley companies host more business traditionally...
...This problem helps explain why Pichai has been cautious in adopting big changes to its search engine, analysts and challengers say....
...The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed site about European start-ups A brassy new venture capital investor, going by the ugly acronym Mang, has been making a lot of noise in Silicon Valley....
...of a big correction”....
...This is only the opening shot in the EU’s sweeping attempt to prise open the big tech platforms....
...Generative AI — systems that spew out text, code, and video in seconds — has opened up a new front in the battle for big tech dominance across Silicon Valley....
...The case also comes as tensions have increased over Silicon Valley’s links to China....
...It was one of several lenders that came under pressure following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March last year....
...Generative AI has opened up a new front in the battle for big tech dominance across Silicon Valley....
...The legal test comes just as another big tech company appears set to face a complaint over its core business....
...And that was a big motivation to leave.”...
...Mobileye’s Shashua argues that such scepticism is one of the big flaws of the robotaxi strategy....
...Once-high flying institutions such as Credit Suisse, First Republic and Silicon Valley Bank crumbled and a drought of deals has caused mass investment banking lay-offs....
...There is no obvious division of Google’s business that would deal with the issues raised by the trial, said Donald Polden, a law professor at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley....
...The deal was finalised as markets unravelled during the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and as other potential bidders bowed out....
...In today’s newsletter: DD chats with Silver Lake’s Egon Durban Private credit pounces on loan deals Silver Lake prepares for big ‘all-in’ bets US private equity group Silver Lake is up to big things....
...Empire of dirt A deal with a Colombian drug cartel gave a Calabrian mafia family the chance to advance from petty thugs to the rulers of an international crime syndicate....
...Brussels has charged Google with abusing its dominant position in the advertising tech sector, warning that the alleged offences can only be resolved by forcing the Silicon Valley giant to sell off part...
...By Tuesday, Silver Lake, Blackstone and Apollo Global had announced big acquisitions, signalling confidence that the financial sector had avoided a freefall scenario after the failures of Silicon Valley...
...BDT & MSD Partners’ investment, which is expected to be announced on Monday, is a sign of its dealmaking ambitions and the latest big-money transaction to take place in an otherwise slow market....
...Training tech bosses like Olympians could be a worthwhile endeavour, considering the gauntlet ahead now that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the broader pullback in tech funding over the past 12...
...The overnight implosions of Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic are cautionary tales of hubris and fragility....
...The world’s largest private investment firms are exploring the purchase of loans from the remains of Silicon Valley Bank after the collapse of the tech-focused lender last week....
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