Wall Street Journal: Sources: Oracle is in talks to acquire electronic medical records company Cerner, in a deal that could be worth ~$30B — An agreement, which could potentially be worth $30 billion, would rank as biggest ever for software giant — Oracle Corp. is in talks to buy electronic-medical-records …
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Enlarge (credit: Konami / Nickelodeon / Digital Eclipse) In any other year, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection would be a no-brainer recommendation for ’90s gaming nostalgia. Who could turn down an invite to an arcade stocked with 13 of the series’ earliest hit games, all set up for free play with welcome modern tweaks? But this far into 2022, another arcade filled with Turtles fun has already opened on the same block. Shredder’s Revenge, a new title featuring the series’ old-school arcade action, earned a spot in our year-end best-of list barely two months ago—and its brilliant, beautiful, six-player fun costs $15…
Kif Leswing / CNBC: Meta delays a full return to the office until March 28 and will require COVID-19 booster shots for returning staff — – Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Monday that it will require Covid-19 booster shots for employees. — It is also delaying employees’ return to U.S. offices until March 28 from Jan. 31.
Dan Seifert / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 and S8 Plus review: excellent displays and useful integrations with other Samsung devices but Android tablet app ecosystem is still rough — The tablet for Samsung phone owners — If you’ve been looking for a tablet to complement your Android phone, for many years, your choices have been few and far between.
Financial Times: IT services group Atos sues the UK over its £854M meteorology supercomputer contract, awarded to Microsoft in 2021; a High Court trial expected in June 2022 — Atos claims it was wrongfully excluded from bids for advanced system for predicting weather and climate change
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Barcelona-based SaaS startup Amenitiz, which offers admin tools for independent hotels and B&Bs, raises a $30M Series A led by Eight Roads — Barcelona-based Amenitiz, which sells software-as-a-service for streamlining the administration of independent hotels and B&Bs which it shorthands …
Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Next-day package delivery startup Veho raises a $170M Series B led by Tiger Global at a $1.5B valuation, two months after raising a $125M Series A — Two months after taking on a monster $125 million Series A that propelled the company into unicorn territory, package delivery company Veho …
FinSMEs: NY-based Grata, a B2B search engine used by PE firms and others to find private companies, raises a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $35M — Grata, a New York-based private company intelligence engine provider, raised $25M in Series A funding. — The round, which brings total funding …
Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: Biden signs the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, denying FCC licenses to national security threats, effectively banning Huawei and ZTE network equipment in the US — The Secure Equipment Act of 2021 received bipartisan support prior to it being signed by Biden.
Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: Riyadh-based Retailo, which aims to digitize mom-and-pop stores in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE, raises a $36M Series A led by Graphene Ventures — The e-commerce platform Retailo has raised $36 million to help fund its effort to digitize mom-and-pop stores in Pakistan, U.A.E. and its home country of Saudi Arabia.