Apple Inc.

Spotify Technology S.A.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Danaher Corporation

Masimo Corporation

Medical company Danaher is preparing a $10 billion deal to buy Masimo, strengthening its position in the fast-growing medical monitoring market. Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are participating in the Pentagon's competition to create voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms, bringing them into a new, more sensitive field of AI weapons. On these and other topics - in our roundup of key developments for the morning of February 17.

Main by morning: Apple competes with YouTube and Spotify, Alibaba has a new AI model

Alphabet Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.


This is the second investigation into Google launched by Brussels in less than a month

EU to probe Google for 'abuse of dominance' over AI training

In October, Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, a global YouTube star with 450 million subscribers, launched <a href="https://www.vyro.com/">Vyro</a>, a new platform for clipping, i.e. producing short videos. The videos "masquerade" as user-generated fan content, but in reality they are elaborate advertising campaigns paid for by sponsors.

Short clips for stars began to bring in millions. Mr. Beast

Shares of Vimeo, a video platform, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VMEO/">soared</a>&nbsp;nearly 61% to $7.74 per share yesterday, September 10, after the company <a href="https://investors.vimeo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vimeo-enters-definitive-agreement-be-acquired-bending-spoons-138">announced</a>&nbsp;it would go private and be acquired by Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons, which owns Evernote and WeTransfer. As a public company, Vimeo faced increasing pressure to balance growth initiatives with short-term financial expectations, Noble Capital Markets <a href="https://www.channelchek.com/news-channel/vimeo-to-go-private-in-1-38-billion-deal-with-bending-spoons">argues</a>.&nbsp;

Video platform Vimeo to be acquired at 63% premium, shares jump 61% in a day

Netflix, Inc.

The Walt Disney Company

Streaming service Netflix plans to open two theme parks - in Philadelphia and Texas - by the end of the year, and another in Las Vegas in 2027. The company is investing heavily in gaming and sports streaming and calls the TV show market "an obvious growth point." The all-around expansion in entertainment is making the online movie theater more and more like Disney. Journalist Roman Mighty broke down for Onivest whether this strategy can bring the company growth to its planned trillion-dollar capitalization.