Massive Layoffs and Corporate Strategies Amid Pandemic Struggles

New Surface Gos, New Surface Books, New Surface Headphones and the Surface Buds finally arrive. The rumored layoffs come to Uber and Airbnb. Disney+ is saving Disney’s bacon at the moment. And why Peloton is one of those companies having a positive Corona moment.

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• Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor (The Verge)
• Microsoft's Surface Book 3 has 10th-gen Intel CPUs and new NVIDIA GPUs (Engadget)
• Uber to lay off 3,700 employees, about 14% of workforce (CNBC)
• The layoffs at Airbnb cast a dark shadow over Silicon Valley (Recode)
• Magic Leap is turning to a major health care company to save its future, potentially raising as much as $100 million (Business Insider)
• Disney says it now has 54.5 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC)
• People Are Panic-Buying Meat, Toilet Paper … and Pelotons? (NYTimes)
• Bitcoin Is Staging a Comeback Reminiscent of 2017 Bubble Frenzy (Bloomberg)

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