By Nate Berg Let’s sit down and sign a contract. It will last for 10 years, and it will cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions. What you’ll get out of the deal will be an office. Yes, an office: the physical real estate that was deemed unsafe by the pandemic, … Continue reading Why now might actually be the best time to sign a long-term office lease
By Nicole Gull McElroy Daniel Zimmer’s job at legacy tech company SAP is to improve the experience of the developers and engineers working there. When the pandemic hit, Zimmer was in the middle of reimagining SAP’s Bay Area footprint, which included leases in San Francisco, San Ramon, and Palo Alto. The 50-year-old tech company … Continue reading The office-as-playground is dead. You might prefer what comes next
By Adele Peters June 16, 2023 When UX designer Bianca Pasternack applied for a design job this spring at a company working on climate change, she got a rejection email saying that they’d had 3,000 applicants. At the same time, she kept hearing about the massive shortage of electricians who are necessary to help … Continue reading You might want to ditch your desk job to become an electrician
EU Might Want Google To Break Up Its Ad Business – Take A Number by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 14, 2023 Europe’s antitrust regulator reportedly might seek to break up Google’s advertising-technology business, charging the company with abusing its dominance in online advertising technology. The move joins the U.S. in accusing Google of abusing its … Continue reading EU Might Want Google To Break Up Its Ad Business – Take A Number
By Laya Neelakandan May 25, 2023 American adults’ top-trusted brand for 2023 might be an unlikely one, but it’s managed to stick around: Band-Aid. Morning Consult’s latest Most Trusted Brands report shows the adhesive bandage company securing the number one spot, followed by UPS, Amazon, Lysol, and Kleenex. Conducted between March and April, the … Continue reading You might be wearing America’s most trusted brand right now
By Michael Grothaus March 30, 2023 If you used Robinhood’s platform in 2020 and were affected by specific outages that the trading app experienced, you may be eligible for compensation. Robinhood has reached a proposed class action settlement for specific outages and will pay $9.9 million to settle claims surrounding trading losses. Here’s what … Continue reading Robinhood might owe you money after it suffered outages in 2020. Here’s how to check
By Chris Stokel-Walker February 09, 2023 Elon Musk’s travails over whether or not to allow free, unfettered access to Twitter’s APIs has, as would be expected, taken plenty of twists and turns. On February 2, Musk gave notice that free access to APIs would be removed within a week. Then he decided accounts could … Continue reading Elon Musk’s plans to limit API access might be good for Twitter’s business, but it’s bad for the open internet
The IAB sees encouraging signs that DCRs might sustain addressable advertising outside the walled gardens and without the help of cookies. Kim Davis on February 2, 2023 Are data clean rooms the solution to what IAB CEO David Cohen has called the “slow-motion train wreck” of addressability? Voices at the IAB will tell you that … Continue reading How data clean rooms might help keep the internet open
Jon Fingas|@jonfingas Microsoft just made one of the largest-ever bids for a game studio. The company has announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for $95 per share, valuing the all-cash deal at an enormous $68.7 billion. The deal would make the combined entity the “third-largest” game company by revenue, according to Microsoft, and would … Continue reading The FTC might file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s Activision purchase
By Jared Lindzon November 21, 2022 The last few weeks of the year tend to see a dramatic drop in hiring activity, but this year might be different. Despite inflation, rising interest rates, and mass layoffs at large tech firms some experts believe hiring activity will actually remain relatively strong through the holiday … Continue reading This holiday season might be an unusually good time to apply for a job
