- Paramount's "A Quiet Place Part II" opened with ~$59M at the box office, the biggest opening for a film since the start of the pandemic (6/1)
- A cyberattack targeting JBS, the world’s largest meat supplier (6/2)
- The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from J&J seeking to overturn a verdict in favor of women who say they developed ovarian cancer from J&J talc products (6/2)
- Twitter launched a local weather news service called “Tomorrow” (6/2)
- Warner Bros. Discovery will be the name of the combined entity in the merger between AT&T’s WarnerMedia division and Discovery (6/2)
- AMC, Blackberry, and other “meme stocks” surged this week (6/3)
- Etsy announced the acquisition of Depop, a UK-based thrifting app (6/3)
- Fortune released its annual list of the 500 largest US companies (6/3)
- The EU and UK launched formal antitrust investigations into Facebook (6/4)
- Twitter launched its first paid subscription offering called “Twitter Blue” (6/4)
- United Airlines agreed to purchase 15 supersonic jets from Boom (6/4)
June 4, 2021
