Bloomberg Google agreed to acquire smartwatch technology and personnel from Fossil Group Inc in a bid to boost the search giant’s nascent efforts in the category. The Alphabet Inc unit will pay $40 million for Fossil intellectual property, according to a statement from the companies. Additionally, an unspecified number of Fossil’s research and development employees will join Google. Fossil said ...

Bloomberg Two electric scooter startups, fresh off raising hundreds of millions of dollars last year, are now raising hundreds of millions more, according to multiple people familiar with the details. But the latest hard-fought deal terms for Lime and Bird Rides Inc. both peg the companies’ worth at far less than the lofty valuations the startups once sought. New funding ...

Bloomberg Salesforce.com Inc is planning to add as many as 1,500 jobs in Ireland over five years, in one of the largest such expansions in the history of the state. The San Francisco-based software maker, which now employs more than 1,000 people in Ireland, laid out its Irish expansion plans in Dublin. Bloomberg News first reported the figure. The company, ...