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Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks during a panel discussion at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Every year during the second week of January nearly 200,000 people gather in Las Vegas for the tech industry’s most-maligned, yet well-attended event: the consumer electronics show. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg 775459550

December 1, 2020 at 1:12 pm

Salesforce buying work-chat service Slack for $27.7 billion

Business software pioneer Salesforce.com is buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion in a deal aimed at giving the two companies a better shot at... Updated 11:40 am

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November 30, 2020 at 1:59 pm

Zoom reports big 3Q gains, but slowing growth sinks stock

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Zoom’s videoconferencing service remains a fixture in pandemic life, but its breakneck growth is showing signs of tapering off as... Updated 10:24 am

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November 18, 2020 at 12:44 pm

Northern California utility finds latest CEO in Michigan

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Embattled Northern California utility PG&E Corp. has lured away the top executive at Michigan's largest power provider to steer its...

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FILE — Chief executive Tim Cook speaks at Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., June 4, 2018. Apple is increasingly on the defensive over its tight control of the App Store ahead of its annual developers’ conference in June 2019. (Jason Henry/The New York Times) XNYT262 XNYT262

November 18, 2020 at 9:57 am

Apple to cut app store fees as legal scrutiny intensifies

Apple will cut its app store commissions in half for most developers beginning next year amid an intensifying debate about whether the iPhone maker has...

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November 10, 2020 at 12:28 pm

Apple unveils first Macs built to run more like iPhones

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple is rolling out new Mac computers powered by the same kind of chips that run iPhones and iPads, a...

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November 4, 2020 at 11:54 am

Ride-hailing, delivery giants win fight against labor law

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — App-based companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash have dodged a potentially devastating blow to their industry by carving out an exemption...

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October 30, 2020 at 10:31 am

Netflix raising US streaming prices amid booming growth

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Netflix is raising most of its U.S. prices by 8% to 13% as its video streaming service rides a wave...

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October 20, 2020 at 9:27 pm

U.S. antitrust case against Google mirrors Microsoft battle

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's legal assault on Google actually feels like a blast from the past. The U.S. Justice Department filed an equally...

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October 20, 2020 at 9:01 pm

From Detroit to Oakland, pandemic threatens urban renewal

DETROIT (AP) — Downtown Detroit was returning to its roots as a vibrant city center, motoring away from its past as the model of urban...

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October 20, 2020 at 2:04 pm

Netflix reports a summer slump in subscriber growth

Netflix’s subscriber growth slowed dramatically during the summer months after surging in the spring fueled by pandemic lockdowns that corralled millions of people in their...

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