Airbus started moving its 130,000 employees from Microsoft Office to Google Workspace over seven years ago. Today, more than a third of its 150,000-person workforce still relies on Microsoft tools due to technical and compliance hurdles.
Investment giant Carlyle Group has sold off its troubled $191 million loan to iRobot. The debt was bought by a major Chinese supplier, PICEA Robotics, as iRobot scrambles to avoid a potential bankruptcy filing.
Apple has made a major change to its AI leadership. The company hired Amar Subramanya, a former Google and Microsoft AI executive, as its new VP of AI. Longtime AI chief John Giannandrea will retire next year.
Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, is departing the company. His exit follows internal struggles to adapt Siri for Apple Intelligence, with leadership now shifting to Craig Federighi and new hire Amar Subramanya.
Omnicom is now the world’s largest ad holding company after closing its $9 billion acquisition of Interpublic Group. CEO John Wren says the new scale and its AI platform will create “unmatchable” commercial terms for clients, even as the deal brings over $750 million in cost savings and 4,000 job cu
Canada’s manufacturing sector contracted further in November, with the key PMI index dropping to 48.4. The report highlights accelerated declines in output and new orders, driven by persistent market uncertainty and tariffs.
For nearly six years, CDTO Jaime Montemayor has been rebuilding General Mills’ tech foundation. Now, with clean data and global engineering teams, the company is automating supply chains and reinventing marketing with AI.
The market is buzzing with the “mini-Broadcom” narrative for Astera Labs, positioning it as the critical “wires” for AI data centers. But Forbes urges caution, noting the leadership team is cashing out and valuations are sky-high. It’s a classic story of a vital tech company facing immense investor
Michael Burry, the investor famous from *The Big Short*, is taking aim at Tesla. He calls the company “ridiculously overvalued” and criticizes its shifting narrative from EVs to robots.
A new Fortune profile shows how DoorDash CEO Tony Xu turned a startup with less than $30k left into a $13 billion delivery titan. The key? Zigging where rivals zagged, obsessing over customers, and striking when competitors were weak.
