Thursday, December 28, 2023

Affirm stock grew 430% in 2023, outperforming all US tech companies worth $5B+ and rebounding from 2022's 90% fall, thanks to partnerships with Amazon, others (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Affirm stock grew 430% in 2023, outperforming all US tech companies worth $5B+ and rebounding from 2022's 90% fall, thanks to partnerships with Amazon, others  —  - Affirm shares have skyrocketed more than 400% this year, outperforming all U.S. tech companies worth $5 billion or more.



Filing shows Apple supplier Luxshare plans to buy a 62.5% stake in Pegatron's Kunshan unit in eastern China for about $300M, as it seeks to compete with Foxconn (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Filing shows Apple supplier Luxshare plans to buy a 62.5% stake in Pegatron's Kunshan unit in eastern China for about $300M, as it seeks to compete with Foxconn  —  - Pegatron to sell majority stake of Kunshan campus to Luxshare  — Apple's fostering Chinese suppliers to boost ties with Beijing



Transgender people say games help them explore their identities; character creation in RPGs like Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 makes fewer gendered assumptions (Zachary Small/New York Times)

Zachary Small / New York Times:
Transgender people say games help them explore their identities; character creation in RPGs like Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 makes fewer gendered assumptions  —  Transgender people have turned to games, some with robust character creators, as places where they can safely express themselves.



The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...