Mon. 07/15 – Google To Make Its Biggest Acquisition Ever?

The biggest tech exit in years might be in the offing as Alphabet eyes scooping up Wiz. The weird story of that huge AT&T hack. A new ARM-powered CoPilot+ PC is maybe the most powerful yet. And is India the reason Apple’s stock has been on the rise lately?

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Links:

• Google Near $23 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz (WSJ)
• Zero to Billions: The Startup on the Verge of the Biggest Tech Exit in Years (WSJ)
• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach (TechCrunch)
• AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records (Wired)
• HP's new OmniBook Ultra beats every single Copilot+ PC on the market in TOPS, and it runs on an AMD Ryzen AI 300 processor (Windows Central)
• Apple’s India Sales Surge 33% to Record in Shift From China (Bloomberg)
• India clings to cheap feature phones as brands struggle to tap new smartphone buyers (TechCrunch)