This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, April 14th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know,

give you the important context on all that stuff and help each other understand. Yeah, in fact,

Bodie Grimm's going to help us understand why B-I-D is charging so much for their cheap,

fast-charging EV in Europe.

And Amazon just bought Global Star and its 24 satellites to boost Amazon's Leo satellite

business.

Leo, I'm Jason Howell.

I am Tom Merritt.

Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

Yes, indeed.

Well, you said it right there at the top.

Amazon agreed to buy Global Star for $11.57 billion in cash.

I think it was like a stock deal to fold the satellite operator into Amazon's Leo business, Leo satellite business.

Global Star actually powers Apple's iPhone emergency SOS feature today, and this deal is going to give

Amazon Global Star's satellites. It's a ground infrastructure., its mobile satellite spectrum, so it gets a lot

in the deal, and it's going to use that to add direct-to-device services to its Leo network,

its broadband network. That's, of course, still in the early phases. That's all developing. This is

going to be helpful for that. Now, Amazon has planned,

or had planned, rather, to launch more than 3,200 satellites for Leo. Delays have actually seen Amazon put about 200 in orbit. They had asked the FCC recently for more time to meet a

requirement that roughly 1,600 satellites be flying

by July 2026. They don't think they're going to hit that, so they had to ask for an extension

on that. So I guess this gets them a little closer, but we'll talk about that. Along with the deal,

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