Technology

Talks to renew a licensing deal between TikTok and Universal Music Group fell through Tuesday.

Serial entrepreneur Katy Barfield secured the seed round of funding from Asia Pacific early-stage VC Investible. Her company Yume has redistributed 8 million kilograms of food from customers including Kelloggs, Mars Food and Unilever.

Tesla shares dropped around 2% in after-hours trading following the ruling.

Japan’s “Moon Sniper” rover on Monday regained power and has woken up on the Moon, a surprise turnaround for the country’s historic space mission after its successful “pinpoint” landing on the lunar surface more than a week was marred by technical challenges and forced into hibernation.

Musk’s net worth rose by $5.5 billion on Monday, as Tesla’s share price rallied 4.2% after a major slump last week.

Last January, PayPal laid off some 2,000 people.

Since 2016, Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink has been working on developing a brain chip that will allow users to control devices using only their thoughts. For the first time, it’s been implanted into a human being.

Amazon’s proposed acquisition of Roomba maker, iRobot, has been scrapped over EU antitrust regulatory concerns.

An estimated 4 billion people in more than 70 countries will head to the polls this year, with pivotal elections taking place all around the globe.

Microsoft joined Apple in the highly exclusive $3 trillion club Wednesday.