The Download: waiting at the US border, and seaweed’s carbon capture shortcomings

June 16, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The new US border wall is an app Keisy Plaza, 39, left her home in Colombia seven months ago. She walked a 62-mile stretch of dense mountainous rainforest and swampland with her two…

1 Healthcare REIT to Keep an Eye on, 2 to Avoid

June 16, 2023
Healthcare REITs are poised to benefit from the growing healthcare industry. However, the sector is exposed to leverage and interest rate risks, among other risks. Amid this, investors could add…

Feds catch another LockBit hacker, Justice Department announces

June 16, 2023

The Justice Department has arrested and charged a Russian national for his alleged role in multiple LockBit ransomware attacks against victims in the U.S. and around the world. According to a criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday, 20-year-old Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov is accused of carrying out five cyberattacks between August 2020 and March 2023, four of […]

Feds catch another LockBit hacker, Justice Department announces by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition greenlighted by UK antitrust regulator

June 16, 2023

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has given the go-ahead to Amazon’s proposed billion-dollar iRobot acquisition, concluding that the deal “would not lead to competition concerns in the U.K.” Amazon first revealed plans to buy robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion last August, though the megabucks deal was always likely to draw scrutiny from regulators. The […]

Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition greenlighted by UK antitrust regulator by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch