Every year between Christmas and New Year, Figma gives all employees two weeks of vacation to enjoy the holidays. This year’s companywide PTO looked even brighter as many of the software company’s employees hoped regulators would approve creative giant Adobe’s $20 billion acquisition. But on Monday, Slack and email alerts alerted U.S. employees that the … [Read more…]
If Adobe had merged with Figma, software newcomer Dylan Field’s 10 percent stake would have been worth $2 billion. David Paul Morris-Bloomberg/Getty Images Every year between Christmas and New Year, Figma gives all employees two weeks of vacation to enjoy the holidays. This year’s companywide PTO looked even brighter as many of the software company’s … [Read more…]
Among the many deals that have fallen through recently, Adobe’s $20 billion acquisition of Figma, an up-and-coming design software maker, is among the most telling. The companies had promised that it was a way to “launch a new era of collaborative creativity,” but regulators in three jurisdictions saw it as an unacceptable attempt by a … [Read more…]
Photo credit: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Hey guys, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that rounds up the top tech and technology-related stories from the last few days. With the holidays just around the corner, this reporter expected a quieter week. But the opposite happened – there was no shortage of stories … [Read more…]