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Businesses operating in California are required to be in compliance with a sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, starting in January.

Technology giants are increasingly designing their own semiconductors to optimize everything from artificial intelligence tasks to server performance and mobile battery life, but they lack the factories to build them.

CloudSimple will join Google Cloud, a priority business for the Alphabet Inc. unit

Google buys Fitbit. Harvest Partners backs Yellowstone landscape. Olympus acquires Soliant Health.

Google buys smartwatch maker Fitbit. Lender Pathlight raises first funds. Silicon Valley Bank and others are lending to PE-backed deals increasingly. More deal news from One Rock, Tyler Technologies and ButcherJoseph.

The acquisition is Google’s second major purchase in 2019, after it agreed to pay $2.6 billion for cloud software provider Looker.

IBM is playing catch up to Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft in offering computing and other software and services over the internet.

Google was more active in dealmaking than any other tech company in the last decade. TheMaven acquires Jim Cramer co-founded TheStreet. Dassault purchases Medidata.

Google acquires Looker. Genstar backs Advarra. Infineon buys Cypress.