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Microsoft almost overtakes Apple’s to become world’s most valuable company
On Wednesday, Microsoft witnessed dramatic surge in its stock price with its stock price surging almost 4.2% to end up at $323.7. This stellar performance helped the tech giant to propel its valuation to nearly $2.426 trillion, just shy of Apple’s $2.461 trillion valuation. Investors are rallying behind Microsoft on the back of their good numbers during the third quarter. Much of these good numbers were due to Microsoft’s booming cloud business
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Spotify claims that it has become America’s no 1 Podcast platform
Music streaming giant Spotify has claimed that it has overtaken Apple Podcast to become America’s most used podcast platform. The company during its third quarter’s earning calling cited Edison Research to make this claim. However, Spotify refused to shed light on approximate number of podcast listeners it currently commands in the U.S. market (Click here).
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Intel Launches new PC chips, claims new chip will double up super computer’s speed
Intel has unveiled 12th generation Alder Lake Chips to supposedly usher a new era for the chip maker. The company claims that the 12th generation Alder Lake Chips, which runs on flagship core i9-12900K CPU, is the world’s best gaming processor. However, probably the only downside is that this all-powerful new chipset requires a new motherboard (Click here)
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Facebook request all its employees to preserve the internal documents
According to media reports, Facebook has requested all its employees to preserve all the important internal documents as the social media giant faces intense legal scrutiny. America’s lawmakers are up in arms against the social media giant after one of its former employees turned up as a whistleblower and opened up about Facebook’s complicity in its inability to deal with hate content (Click here)
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LinkedIn forays into freelance marketplace, to compete with Fiverr and Upwork
LinkedIn has forayed into freelance marketplace and will now allow its users to hire for short term projects. Until now, the Microsoft owned platform was known for sourcing full-time jobs. With this announcement, LinkedIn will compete with established players like Fiverr and Upwork (Click here)