Activist investor Jana built stake in BlackLine Systems in second quarter

Activist investor Jana Partners built a new stake in U.S. enterprise software company BlackLine Systems during the second quarter, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Justice is considering options that include breaking up Alphabet’s Google, a week after a judge ruled the tech giant illegally monopolized the online search market, according to Bloomberg News.

The Hollywood actors’ union SAG-AFTRA announced on Wednesday a deal with online talent marketplace Narrativ that enables actors to sell advertisers rights to replicate their voices with artificial intelligence.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Foxconn Chairman Young Liu to discuss the latter’s investment plans on Wednesday, weeks after New Delhi started investigating possible discriminatory hiring practices at a Foxconn plant following a Reuters report.

Meta Platforms’ Instagram failed to remove abusive comments aimed at female politicians who are potential candidates for the 2024 U.S. elections, according to a report by the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate on Wednesday.

Mindbody ClassPass is aiming to go public in the next 12-18 months and has retained Goldman Sachs as its lead banker, the CEO of the fitness and wellness marketplace told Reuters in an interview.

Hackers linked to Russian intelligence are targeting the Kremlin’s critics around the globe with phishing emails, according to new research published on Wednesday by digital rights groups Citizen Lab and Access Now.

Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday unveiled a lineup of new Pixel smartphones with deeper integrations of itsartificial intelligence technology as it races to incorporate AI into its hardware.

Sahara AI, a startup integrating the blockchain and artificial intelligence, said on Wednesday it raised $43 million in a funding round led by venture capital investors Pantera Capital, Binance Labs and Polychain Capital.

India’s top e-scooter maker Ola Electric reported a bigger quarterly loss on Wednesday, hurt by subsidy cuts and a surge in depreciation costs, but said it was inching closer to breaking even in a key profit metric.

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