TAMPA, Fla. — Gogo is acquiring inflight connectivity rival Satcom Direct to counter rising competition from SpaceX’s Starlink in the market for providing Wi-Fi to business jets. Satcom Direct would get $375 million in cash and five million shares from Gogo under a deal announced Sept. 30, subject to regulatory approvals, and up to $225 million
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Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering, with plans to trade under the ticker symbol “CBRS” on the
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Damon Albarn and Kaktus Einarsson have joined forces for the new single ‘Gumbri’, from Einarsson’s upcoming album ‘Lobster Coda’. Check it out below. READ MORE: Director of Blur’s new film To The End: “This is about friendship and brotherhood” The collaboration follows years of the pair working together, beginning in 2007 when a then-15-year-old Einarsson played trumped
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Verizon mobile customers reported widespread outages across the US on Monday. Starting at around 9:30AM ET, hundreds of thousands of people flagged issues with their mobile service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage reports. The volume of reports spiked at almost 105,000 at 11:20AM, but were still reaching almost 59,000 at 12:52PM. Many folks claimed
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A Snowplow Parent Spinning Her Wheels on Summer Vacation Marian Crotty Share article Chincoteague by Marian Crotty Nora hated driving to begin with—especially highway driving, especially with a car full of teenagers—and that day it was raining. Not hard enough to delay the trip, just opaque gray skies and slick roads, a steady thrum of
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No Agenda = No Meeting When you’re invited to a meeting with no agenda, you can almost be sure it will be unstructured and meandering (read: long and unproductive). You can always decline the meeting by saying “Without an agenda, I’m not sure if I’ll have much to contribute at this time. If you can
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John Ashton in ‘Midnight Run’, Photo: Universal Pictures. Preview: Actor John Ashton has died aged 76. He was most famous for portraying Sergeant Taggart in the ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ franchise. Ashton was remembered by his family as “a loving husband, brother, father, and grandfather.” John Ashton, an actor who became a film favorite in the
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Chris Distefano is bringing his comedy to Hulu. His latest hour, which is being executive produced by Jimmy Kimmel, arrives as the streaming service makes an aggressive push into the stand-up arena, elbowing its way into an increasingly frothy market that’s been dominated by Netflix in recent years. It’s Just Unfortunate, as Distefano’s new special
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The Mustang Mach-E on display at the New York International Auto Show on March 28, 2024. Danielle DeVries | CNBC DETROIT — Ford Motor is aiming to boost sales of its electric vehicles by addressing potential customer concerns through a new program that includes free home-charging installation and other benefits. The “Ford Power Promise” program
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Laurene Powell Jobs speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Steve Jennings A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. News that Laurene Powell
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