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1. 💻 Apple is Hiking its Product Prices
If you’re in the market for a Mac, you might wanna try Prime Day sales before they’re over. Apple just raised the prices of most of its product lineup today, in some cases adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of a new MacBook (which makes the Prime Day deals all that much better). The reason? The soaring price of memory. (ArsTechnica)
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3. 🦾 Agility Robotics is Going Public in a $2.5Bn SPAC Deal
Through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp. XI, Agility Robotics is planning to go public at a valuation of about $2.5 billion. The deal also expects gross proceeds of about $600 million. Agility’s main offering is a robot named Digit which is used by major players like Amazon and Toyota to automate warehouse and factory tasks. (Agility)
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5. ✉️ Notion is Shutting Down its Email Product
AI is coming for legacy products, too. Productivity company Notion is shutting down its email product, Notion Mail, on September 22. The company is discontinuing the email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering after it noticed users increasingly handing over their email to the agents and not opening the inbox at all. (TechCrunch)
6. ☁️ Rippling Launched its Own Data Cloud
Rippling’s CEO believes that data analytics belong inside human capital management systems, like its own HR software. To compete directly with dedicated business intelligence tools, the software company just launched Rippling Data Cloud, an all-in-one system that has a built-in understanding of your org, its reporting structure, and everything impacted when metrics move up or down. (TechCrunch)
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7. 🤠 Dell is Moving its Legal HQ to Texas
Is Texas the new Miami? Dell Technologies shareholders voted with 97% approval to move the tech enterprise’s legal headquarters to Texas from Delaware. The company, which was founded in Texas, has long maintained its global HQ outside of Austin. The move will set new restrictions on smaller shareholders in favor of Texas’ new management-friendly business regulations. (Bloomberg)
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