2025-05-20
WaPo - New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ business/2025/05/19/live-facial- recognition-police-new-orleans/
Washington Post
Investigation: for two years, New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets using 200+ facial recognition cameras, seemingly violating a 2022 city ordinance
www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... Important investigative work by @douglasmac.bsky.social & @aaronschaffer.com: Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk : “every minute of every hour of...
2025-05-17
Charter to buy Cox for $21.9 billion, which would combine two of America's biggest broadband/cable operators. https://corporate.charter.com/ newsroom/charter-communications-and-cox - communications-announce-definitive- agreement-to-combine-companies
Reuters
Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21.9B, valuing Cox at $34.5B including debt and uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband operators
Our anti-trust laws have been severely underused. [embedded post] Spencer M Ross / @srossmktg.com : If we had a functional (read: not corrupt) Federal Trade Commission, this deal ...
2025-05-16
Charter to buy Cox for $21.9 billion, which would combine two of America's biggest broadband/cable operators. https://corporate.charter.com/ newsroom/charter-communications-and-cox - communications-announce-definitive- agreement-to-combine-companies
Reuters
Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21.9B, valuing Cox at $34.5B including debt and uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband operators
Charter Communications (CHTR.O) said on Friday it would merge with Cox Communications in a deal that would value its privately held rival …
2025-01-07
Shutterstock and Getty Images merging to become a $3.7 billion “visual content company.” https://newsroom.gettyimages.com/en/ getty-images/getty-images-and- shutterstock-to-merge-creating-a- premier-visual-content-company
Axios
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business
- Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash ($1.03 billion based on Shutterstock's outstanding shares) …