March 22, 2024 This new pay transparency tool lets tech workers check their salaries against their colleagues FairComp wants to help workers evaluate job offers and make sure they’re being paid fairly, by giving them access to the type of compensation data used by employers. BY Pavithra Mohan In his former life as a chief people … Continue reading This new pay transparency tool lets tech workers check their salaries against their colleagues
A Threads beta lets you share to Mastodon and other fediverse services If you opt in, users on Mastodon can see and like your posts. Will Shanklin Updated Thu, Mar 21, 2024 Meta Fediverse support in Meta Threads is up and running in beta. Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Thursday that adult Threads users in … Continue reading A Threads beta lets you share to Mastodon and other fediverse services
Bluesky changed its logo and now lets everyone view posts, even without an account Cloudy blue sky is out, butterfly is in. Cheyenne MacDonald Sat, Dec 23, 2023 Bluesky Bluesky, the invite-only decentralized social network, is taking baby steps towards opening up to the public. CEO Jay Graber announced this week that Bluesky posts … Continue reading Bluesky changed its logo and now lets everyone view posts, even without an account
By Casey Fiesler—The Conversation July 11, 2023 Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a series of decisions that has spurred millions of users to sign up with alternative microblogging platforms since Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year. In addition to a surge … Continue reading POV: Meta’s Threads is surging, but let’s not call it a Twitter-killer yet
By Laya Neelakandan April 13, 2023 Spotify announced on Thursday that it is releasing new technology to turn broadcasts into podcasts for any publisher with a Megaphone account, Spotify’s podcasting platform. The new technology, coined as “broadcast-to-podcast” (B2P), will automatically create podcast episodes from broadcast content once set up in Megaphone, according to … Continue reading Spotify now lets publishers automatically transform radio broadcasts into podcasts
By Harry McCracken January 25, 2023 This story is from Fast Company’s new Plugged In newsletter, a weekly roundup of tech insights, news, and trends from global technology editor Harry McCracken, delivered to your inbox every Wednesday morning. Sign up for it—and all of our newsletters—here. “I guess the idea is that eventually you … Continue reading Big Tech’s layoff binge stinks. Let’s hope it leads to a little discipline
By Michael Grothaus December 17, 2022 Last week I partook in my semi-annual digital cleanup. This is where I go through all my online accounts to see if I need them anymore and to check that my details are up to date and my passwords are not too old. And if I find an online … Continue reading This simple trick lets you delete your online accounts without any hassle
By Joel Embiid Basketball players can do this job for only 20 years. So I don’t have a lot of time to accomplish what I want. Every game is a big game for me. I’m always going to find ways to make myself better, but I think it’s because I feel like I haven’t … Continue reading How Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid lets it all out on the court, and on Twitter
Amazon’s Helping Hand: New Program Lets Merchants Send More Targeted Emails by Ray Schultz , Columnist, September 15, 2022 Amazon has announced a free program to help sellers increase their email marketing reach. The new offering, Tailored Audiences, allows merchants to expand beyond brand followers to target repeat, recent customers and high-spending customers. Sellers can … Continue reading Amazon’s Helping Hand: New Program Lets Merchants Send More Targeted Emails
By Jennifer Alsever August 27, 2022 The wealth gap isn’t isolated to just the United States. There’s the rich and then the uber-rich, who despite their stratospheric wealth, are largely invisible to the rest of the world. In her new book, Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets, Kimberly Kay Hoang examines … Continue reading What is spiderweb capitalism? Inside the intricate system that lets the super-rich hide their cash
