Amazon and Apple Just Got Hit With a $218 Million Fine. Here’s Why Brad Anderson / Jul 18, 2023 Apple and Amazon were fined a combined $ 218 million by Spain’s antitrust watchdog for anti-competitive practices. The penalty for Apple was $ 161 million, while Amazon’s was $ 56.7 million. The two tech giants … Continue reading Amazon and Apple Just Got Hit With a $218 Million Fine. Here’s Why
By Michael Grothaus July 06, 2023 While it’s too early to call Threads—Meta’s new microblogging platform—a bona fide “Twitter killer,” Mark Zuckerberg’s answer to Elon Musk’s flailing social network is off to a good start. Zuckerberg took to the new platform to announce that within the first four hours of its launch, five million … Continue reading 10 million users joined Meta’s Threads in just 7 hours. It took Twitter 780 days to do that
By Kim Kelly June 15, 2023 Last week, an upstart digital publication called Business Outsider nabbed its first big White House scoop. Reporter Bryan Metzger didn’t have to lurk around the Rose Garden or muscle his way into a briefing room to get the story, though, because he and his coworkers—and a Biden administration … Continue reading 2023’s summer of strikes is scoring wins for workers—and its just getting started
By Christopher Zara June 14, 2023 Apple might want to think about developing some super cool time-travel apps if it expects people over 35 to adopt its futuristic headsets en masse. According to a new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company, most Americans would prefer to live in a simpler era before everyone … Continue reading Gen Xers and older millennials really just want to go back in time to before the internet existed
By Shalene Gupta May 17, 2023 The job market is rough, the pandemic has burned everyone out, and the overall mood about work is sour. Now, according to the 2023 State of Workplace Empathy Report from HR benefits technology company Businessolver, employees’ perceptions of workplace empathy has dropped. The study surveyed 1,000 employees, HR … Continue reading The empathy gap between workers and companies is bigger than ever—but CEOs just don’t get it
Middle-Class Just Got Clobbered by Biden’s New Budget and Wage Class Warfare, How To Prepare Due / 26 Apr 2023 Biden has always pretended to pay attention to rebuilding the lop-sided economy of the United States. He has always stuck to the idea of redesigning economic practices to make them worthy for ordinary Americans. … Continue reading Middle-Class Just Got Clobbered by Biden’s New Budget and Wage Class Warfare, How To Prepare
By Jeff Beer March 25, 2023 During Thursday’s four-hour-long grilling of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, lawmakers covered a lot of ground in terms of national security and dangerous content concerns around the wildly popular social app. But one question was not explored. Where are the brands … Continue reading Why aren’t brands that advertise on TikTok using their power rather than just waiting for a ban?
By Joey Cappelletti—Associated Press March 24, 2023 Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled legislature. The state’s “right-to-work” law had allowed those in unionized workplaces to opt out … Continue reading Michigan just became the first state in 58 years to repeal a ‘right to work’ law—a win for unions
The US government is trying to force ByteDance to sell TikTok Karissa Bell @karissabe The Biden Administration is significantly increasing pressure on ByteDance just days before TikTok’s CEO is set to testify in front of Congress. The United States government is now “demanding” that ByteDance sell TikTok, according to a new report in The … Continue reading A TikTok ban is a lot more complicated than just shutting down the app
By Max Ufberg March 10, 2023 It’s been four months since OpenAI debuted its chatbot, ChatGPT, and so far the hype train shows no sign of slowing down. These days everyone from teachers to journalists to HR departments are experimenting with generative AI. But there’s also been a wave of criticism over the … Continue reading OpenAI president: ‘Our mistake was definitely just being slow to respond’
