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Cisco closed its US$3.2 billion all-cash purchase of web-conferencing leader WebEx on 25 May 2007, its first deal done through a tender offer, and kept WebEx's subscription model.

Cisco introduced the Nexus 7000 on 28 January 2008, the flagship of a new data-center switch family running the NX-OS operating system, with a 15 Tbps target and pricing from about US$75,000.

On 16 March 2009 Cisco announced its Unified Computing System (UCS), blade servers on Intel Nehalem Xeons tied to a fabric interconnect and UCS Manager software, pushing Cisco into the server market.

Cisco completed its all-cash acquisition of cloud-managed networking company Meraki on 20 December 2012 for about US$1.2 billion; the Meraki team became Cisco's Cloud Networking Group.

Cisco closed its US$2.7 billion purchase of network-security company Sourcefire on 7 October 2013, paying US$76 a share in cash; Sourcefire founder Martin Roesch became chief architect of Cisco's Security Group.

Cisco announced Spark on 17 March 2015 at Enterprise Connect in Orlando, the commercial version of November 2014's Project Squared; it became Webex Teams in 2018.

Cisco completed its acquisition of application-performance monitoring company AppDynamics on 22 March 2017 for about US$3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards.

On 20 June 2017 Cisco launched the Catalyst 9000 switch family and DNA Center as what it called intent-based networking, with software sold by subscription.

Cisco completed its US$2.35 billion cash acquisition of Ann Arbor identity-security company Duo Security on 1 October 2018, adding multi-factor authentication to its security portfolio.

German industrial designer Luigi Colani died on Monday 16 September 2019 in Karlsruhe, aged 91, his partner confirmed. His rounded "biodynamic" forms ran from the Canon T90 and Pegasus piano to streamlined trucks.

On 11 December 2019 Cisco announced Silicon One, a single networking chip architecture, and the Cisco 8000 Series routers running IOS XR7, with Saudi Telecom Company as first customer.

On 3 March 2023 Scout Motors chose Blythewood, South Carolina for its first factory: a $2 billion plant with capacity for 200,000+ vehicles a year and potential for 4,000 or more jobs, with production then targeted for the end of 2026.

Scout Motors held the groundbreaking for its South Carolina Production Center in mid-February 2024, with a 200,000-vehicles-a-year peak (about 40 an hour) and production then slated for the end of 2026.

Cisco unveiled Hypershield on 18 April 2024, a security architecture for data centers and clouds that CEO Chuck Robbins called one of the most significant security innovations in the company's history.

On 24 October 2024 Scout introduced the Traveler SUV and Terra pickup on a hillside in Franklin, Tennessee, as battery-electric and Harvester range-extended trucks, with entry pricing expected under $60,000.

NVIDIA announces Rubin CPX, a GPU for million-token context processing, and the Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX rack: 8 exaflops of AI compute, which NVIDIA says is 7.5x a GB300 NVL72, with 100TB of fast memory and 1.7 PB/s of memory bandwidth. NVIDIA states availability at the end of 2026.

At CES on 5 January 2026 NVIDIA launched the Rubin platform: six new chips, the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack (72 Rubin GPUs, 36 Vera CPUs) and the HGX Rubin NVL8 board. NVIDIA claims up to 10x lower inference cost per token and 4x fewer GPUs to train MoE models than Blackwell, with partner products due in the second half of 2026.

At GTC on 16 March 2026 NVIDIA said seven chips, including the Groq 3 LPU, are in full production and described five Vera Rubin racks: NVL72, a 256-CPU Vera rack, Groq 3 LPX, BlueField-4 STX storage and Spectrum-6 SPX Ethernet. NVIDIA says the NVL72 delivers up to 10x inference throughput per watt at one-tenth the cost per token versus Blackwell.

On 14 October 2026 Scout announced seven South Carolina suppliers will invest more than $82 million and add 200 jobs in Duncan, Piedmont and Spartanburg, led by Spartanburg Steel's $40 million.

President Trump announced on November 6, 2026 that deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, taking over on Monday, November 9, days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterms.

On November 9, 2026 Conagra Brands told employees it will close its Macon, Missouri frozen-food plant at 204 Vine Street, with separations over 14 days from January 15, 2027. A Missouri WARN notice lists 435 affected employees (388 production, maintenance and truck-driving, 47 management and administrative); some outlets report 442.

On November 12, 2026 Kia India's CEO Gwanggu Lee announced at the CII Partnership Summit a US$2 billion investment, with suppliers, in a second plant in Andhra Pradesh, expected to support about 12,000 direct and indirect jobs and lift Kia's Indian capacity to about 630,000 vehicles a year; reports differ on whether a start date was given.

On 12 November 2026 Scout said it started validation builds of the Traveler SUV and Terra pickup at its $2 billion Blythewood plant; builds run into 2027, then pre-production, with customer deliveries planned for 2028.

Nippon KFC takes lottery applications for its 2027 'Kenta Fukubukuro' from 13 to 26 November 2026: ¥3,900 for a ceramic barrel cocotte, ¥5,280 of vouchers, an omikuji coupon and a tote, picked up 1 to 7 January 2027.

The League of Legends World Championship final pits LCK's Gen.G against LPL's Bilibili Gaming at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on November 14, best of five. Kalshi priced Gen.G at 63% on November 11.

IPS Nationwide, the Santa Ana security-staffing company, filed WARN notices to lay off 262 California workers on 17 November 2026: 212 at its Newark site in Alameda County and 50 in Costa Mesa.

Qualcomm told staff on 19 October that a performance-focused global reduction would follow its annual reviews, with notices starting in November. No headcount has been published; an estimate of about 1,000 roles (roughly 2% of about 52,000 staff) is used here, with San Diego and India the likeliest sites.

Reports in October said Xbox plans further layoff waves in November and January 2027 to reach its 3,200-job target for fiscal 2027. About 1,870 cuts are done, so about 1,330 remain; an even split gives roughly 660 for the November wave, most likely at Redmond and the Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda and King studios.

Polymarket's sale-price market for Vincent van Gogh's Châtaigniers en fleurs, which Sotheby's New York offers on November 18, 2026 with a press-quoted estimate near $180 million, put 38% on $200m-$225m and 35% on $225m or more on November 12, on only about $21,000 traded.

Kalshi's next-CEO-of-Nvidia market, listed November 11, 2026, gave Ian Buck about 42% and interim CEO Colette Kress about 20% on November 12, on about $0.5 million traded, hours before Nvidia announced Jensen Huang had resigned. A permanent successor must be named by January 1, 2029 for the market to settle.

Reports in October said Xbox's last layoff wave of the 3,200-job plan would come in January 2027. After the earlier rounds and an expected November wave, about 670 roles would remain; that figure and the sites, mainly Redmond and the Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda and King studios, are estimates.