Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what?

January 29, 2024

A year and a half after announcing its intention to acquire iRobot, Amazon’s deal is officially dead. All parties involved anticipated some level of regulatory scrutiny, but after a few decades of tech company consolidation, few expected this  much friction. The deal had already passed through select international regulatory bodies, including the U.K. Ultimately, however […]

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iRobot and Amazon call it quits, terminate acquisition agreement

January 29, 2024

Amazon has ended its bid to acquire iRobot, the maker of robotic vacuums, after running up against stiff headwinds with European regulators. In a press release, the companies said that they saw “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union,” preventing them from moving forward. Amazon and iRobot mutually agreed to terminate their previously-announced […]

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Compa grabs more capital amid customer quest for real-time compensation data

January 29, 2024

Let’s face it — the job market is tough. Between all of the layoffs in the tech industry and new job positions being created to leverage the artificial intelligence boom, company compensation teams need the best data to get out in front of industry changes, competition and costs. TechCrunch profiled compensation market data provider Compa […]

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Linktree launches features to schedule and archive links

January 29, 2024

Link-in-bio company Linktree announced new features today including link scheduling, archiving, and the ability to automatically fetch your latest video from YouTube and TikTok. Linktree now lets users schedule a link to go live on the page at a certain date and time. They can also choose from multiple time zones to align their drop […]

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The Download: AI job panic, and concussion-preventing mouthguards

January 29, 2024
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. People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. It was 1938, and the pain of the Great Depression was still very real. Unemployment in the US was around…