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Raytheon fears Biden will cancel $500 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia, report says

Summary List PlacementThe Biden administration will cancel a $500 million sale of bombs to a US ally — believed to be Saudi Arabia — the CEO of a major defense contractor predicted on Tuesday. As reported by Defense One, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes told investors that his company is already planning to lose its sale…

Right to Work on a Hot Planet

By 1961, Charles Koch had stacked up three engineering degrees and was back home in Wichita, Kansas, to join the family business of oil refining, pipelines, and manufacturing. His father, Fred, was at the time attempting to tackle a different sort of engineering challenge: how to get unions, Communists, and big government off his back.…

$14 billion Elastic made a big stand against Amazon’s cloud and reignited a fierce open source software debate (ESTC, AMZN)

Summary List PlacementEarlier this month, $15 billion Elastic made a change to the licensing terms of its free search engine software for businesses, in a move intended to make a stand against what it saw as exploitation by Amazon Web Services.  In doing so, it reignited a debate that's been simmering in software developer circles…

Biden predicts anyone who wants a coronavirus vaccine will be able to get one by ‘this spring’

Summary List PlacementPresident Joe Biden made his first prediction for when coronavirus vaccines will be available to the bulk of the American public — not just the elderly and essential workers — during a news conference on Monday. "I think it'll be this spring, "Biden said. I think we'll be able to do that this…