Famed Apple designer Jony Ive is leaving to start his own firm Ive’s new firm LoveFrom will launch in 2020 with Apple as its first client. R. Lawler @Rjcc BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL via Getty Images In an interview with the Financial Times, Jony Ive announced that after more than two decades of making Apple products … Continue reading Apple’s head of hardware design is leaving the company after three years
By Kristin Toussaint September 22, 2022 The efforts to unionize companies like Amazon and Starbucks have clearly been popular among workers, who have voted to unionize and helped organize locations across the country. But the CEOs of those companies have been less welcoming of the labor movement. When asked if he could … Continue reading Sara Nelson to CEOs: You’re going to run a better company when you have unions
By Kaitlyn McInnis September 18, 2022 Whether we like it or not, there are a very small handful of tech companies that dominate the tech industry as a whole. The FAANG companies, also known as MAMAA, Big Tech, or the Big Five, originally started as a stock market term to describe the newest and hottest … Continue reading What is a FAANG company?
Neuralink’s brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong Without a joystick. R. Lawler @Rjcc Neuralink Elon Musk’s last update on Neuralink — his company that is working on technology that will connect the human brain directly to a computer — featured a pig with one of its chips implanted in its brain. Now … Continue reading Elon Musk is reportedly considering investment in Neuralink’s rival brain chip company
By Stephanie Vozza August 07, 2022 On paper, a four-day workweek sounds great. Who wouldn’t want to work fewer hours for the same amount of money? Research from Henley Business School in the United Kingdom found that a four-day week could provide benefits to employers and employees alike, including improved work quality, … Continue reading Why this company ditched its 4-day workweek
By Michael Grothaus August 05, 2022 Hot on the heels of announcing its Q2 2022 results (August 17, 2022), movie theater chain and meme stock AMC announced it will issue a new type of preferred stock as a dividend to existing AMC shareholders. The announcement of the new preferred stock, ticker symbol APE, has … Continue reading AMC stock price: Shares crash as company announces new preferred APE stock
By Clint Rainey July 26, 2022 The value of the U.S. dollar is the strongest it’s been in a generation, which means Americans planning vacations to Europe or wiring cash to family in Latin America are not upset. However, if you happen to be a U.S. company that earns a decent percentage … Continue reading The strongest dollar in 20 years is wiping billions off U.S. company earnings. Here’s why
By Elissaveta M. Brandon July 18, 2022 I’ll start with an apology. I’m about to tell you a story about pigeons and buildings—particularly New York City buildings—and once you’re done, you may not see those buildings in the same light ever again. This won’t be news to anyone, but New York City has … Continue reading How one company has pigeon-proofed all of New York City
Meta reportedly tells managers to identify people for layoffs Mark Zuckerberg previously said that Meta is experiencing “one of the worst downturns” in recent history. M. Moon @mariella_moon Justin Sullivan via Getty Images Some Meta employees could lose their jobs as the company prepares for leaner times ahead. According to The Information, Maher Saba, Meta’s … Continue reading Google slows hiring and says the company needs to be ‘more entrepreneurial’
By Connie Lin June 30, 2022 The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s infrastructure startup, is charging full speed ahead in Las Vegas. On Thursday, it debuted the first passenger station within its network of subterranean roads, 40 feet below the heart of Sin City. First opened in the spring of 2021, Boring’s Las Vegas loop runs … Continue reading The Boring Company takes Las Vegas: Elon Musk’s underground tunnels expand beneath Sin City
