Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - Jan 30

iRobot

30/01/2024 06:21

Jan 30 (Reuters) - Following are the top stories in the
Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    - Amazon.com  AMZN.O  and robotic vacuum maker iRobot
 IRBT.O  agreed to terminate their $1.7 billion deal amid
regulatory pushback, as competition authorities worldwide look
more closely at tech company transactions.
    
    - Elon Musk said that the first human received a Neuralink
brain implant, a potential milestone in the development of
"brain-computer interface" technology that could one day help
those suffering from debilitating conditions such as paralysis
to interact with their surroundings.
    
    - Netflix  NFLX.O  co-founder Reed Hastings donated $1.1
billion worth of his stake in the streaming company to a
California-based charity Silicon Valley Community Foundation,
that is popular with technology founders because it gives them
tax breaks and privacy.
    
    - Boeing  BA.N  and other industry officials increasingly
believe the plane maker's employees failed to put back the bolts
when they reinstalled a 737 MAX 9 plug door after opening or
removing it during production.
        
  
        - Social-media company X ended the ban on searches for
Taylor Swift Monday evening after blocking queries of the
singer's name for several days following the spread of explicit,
digitally altered pictures of her on the platform.
        
  
        - JetBlue  JBLU.O  named Warren Christie as its next
chief operating officer effective Feb. 12.

 (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
 ((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))