Pins matching date:2025-11-18

Hershey closed its acquisition of organic popcorn and puffs maker LesserEvil, paying $769 million in cash up front with up to $200 million more if earnings targets are met. The brand joins SkinnyPop and Dot's Pretzels and lifted Hershey's salty snacks sales by about 22% in the second quarter of 2026.

Google releases Gemini 3 Pro in preview, which tops the LMArena leaderboard at 1501 Elo, scores 37.5% on Humanity's Last Exam, and launches with the Google Antigravity coding platform.

On 18 November 2025 US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the FTC had failed to prove Meta holds a monopoly in social networking, so Meta keeps Instagram and WhatsApp; the FTC has since said it will appeal.

Nia provides 90 affordable homes in the Sunnydale redevelopment. Most homes replace public housing; 22 were offered through a general affordable-housing lottery. Grand-opening report published November 18, 2025.

Arsenal Cider House & Wine Cellar took the Thumper Award for Best in Show and Grand National Champion at the U.S. Open Cider Championship for Alfred's Pear, Son!, a crisp estate pear perry.

Oracle Health's new EHR earned ONC Health IT certification and met the DEA's e-prescribing rules for controlled substances, clearing US ambulatory clinics to adopt it.

Salesforce closed its purchase of Informatica, funding the $25-a-share cash deal partly with $6 billion of bank borrowings and folding Informatica's data management into Data 360, MuleSoft and Agentforce 360.

On 18 November 2025 the Department of Energy closed a US$1 billion loan to Constellation to help finance the restart of the 835 MW Crane Clean Energy Center, formerly Three Mile Island Unit 1, in Pennsylvania.

Amani has 80 studio through four-bedroom apartments in the Sunnydale HOPE SF community. Most homes replace existing residents’ housing; the operator identifies 19 general-public lottery apartments. Mercy Housing announced the Amani and Nia grand opening on November 18, 2025.

Xiaomi's innovative businesses, which are 97.6% EV revenue, earned 700 million yuan in the third quarter of 2025 on a record 29 billion yuan of revenue, the first quarterly profit in the unit's history.

Google launches Antigravity, an agent-first development platform with an editor, an Agent Manager and a browser-controlling agent, free in public preview alongside Gemini 3.

Lululemon's third Games as Team Canada's official outfitter: a kit with topographic-map prints, deep red to iceberg-green colours and new adaptive pieces for Paralympians, revealed alongside Sidney Crosby as a new ambassador.