By Michael Grothaus November 28, 2023 Update Tuesday, November 28: November has shaped up to be a particularly rough month for tech companies, as layoffs have continued through its final few days. On Monday, it was reported that TikTok parent company ByteDance will lay off hundreds of employees as it winds down its failed … Continue reading Tech and media layoffs November update: Job cuts keep coming at ByteDance, Vice, Amazon, Faire
By Yasmin Gagne October 22, 2023 Raad Mobrem found a mentor the old-fashioned way: A chance encounter with Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea on the street led to a conversation about entrepreneurship and, ultimately, a long-lasting relationship that extended through Mobrem’s founding the inventory-management app, Lettuce, and eventually selling it to the financial software giant … Continue reading Hustle culture is coming for the consultant class
By Mark Sullivan October 11, 2023 Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly LinkedIn newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. If a friend or colleague shared this newsletter with you, you can sign up to receive it every week here. The generative AI bill is coming due, and it’s … Continue reading The generative AI bill is coming due, and it’s not cheap
By Pavithra Mohan Even with summer upon us, there are few signs that companies have stemmed the flow of layoffs that have rocked the corporate world for the past year. In fact, the tech industry seems to be setting new records: This year, employers have cut 200,000 jobs and counting, according to Layoffs.fyi, far … Continue reading Tech layoffs keep coming. Here’s how hiring managers should respond
By Michael Grothaus March 22, 2023 Many of us got our first exposure to Magnolia Bakery when Carrie Bradshaw bit into one of its cupcakes on the iconic show Sex and the City. Since then, the bakery—first opened in 1996—has become an icon in itself, and an institution in New York City’s West Village. … Continue reading Magnolia Bakery is entering grocery stores for the first time. And it’s coming to Amazon, too
Resources and Tools for Remote Workers Coming Out of Retirement John Boitnott / 15 Mar 2023 The COVID pandemic pushed millions of baby boomers into retirement. However, in an ironic twist, the pandemic also accelerated the rise of remote technology that’s now drawing baby boomers out of retirement to fill gaps in the American … Continue reading Resources and Tools for Remote Workers Coming Out of Retirement
Apple’s App Store will display more ads starting next week Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic The next time you want to download an app on your iPhone, prepare to see more ads. Starting on October 25th, Apple will begin rolling out two additional ad categories to the App Store, according to an email seen by MacRumors. … Continue reading Apple’s latest hire could mean more ads are coming to TV+
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Azure OpenAI Services, ChatGPT Coming Soon by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 17, 2023 Microsoft has announced it will add OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service, building on an existing relationship between the two companies. Azure OpenAI has only been available to a limited set of … Continue reading Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Azure OpenAI Services, ChatGPT Coming Soon
Publisher Settings For Google AdSense Data-Protection Law Coming In Jan. 2023 by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 29, 2022 California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah will take on new data-protection laws in 2023. The laws apply to the collection and processing of personal information. Whether this is based on the Internet Protocol (IP) address … Continue reading Publisher Settings For Google AdSense Data-Protection Law Coming In Jan. 2023
Twitter will soon let organizations verify related accounts The announcement comes after the recent Twitter Blue disaster. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Dado Ruvic / reuters Less than two days after Twitter’s first attempt to charge for account verification ended in disaster, Elon Musk announced the company is working on a new way to authenticate users. … Continue reading Elon Musk says Twitter Blue verification is coming back November 29th
