Ad Service Startups Will Emerge From Thousands Of Tech Layoffs by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, February 20, 2023 Nearly two months into the new year, more than 93,000 workers across U.S. tech companies have been laid off in mass job cuts. The numbers from Crunchbase News include Twilio’s 1,500-person cut, DocuSign’s 680-worker cut, and Wix’s 370-person layoff announcements last … Continue reading Ad Service Startups Will Emerge From Thousands Of Tech Layoffs
By Michael Grothaus February 10, 2023 On Thursday evening, Axios reported that Yahoo is set to lay off more than 1,600 of its employees. Yahoo’s job cuts equate to over 20% of its workforce and Axios reports that the cuts will hit Yahoo’s ad-tech division hard—with 50% of ad-tech employees set to be let … Continue reading Nearly 20,000 jobs lost in another week of brutal mass layoffs for tech and media
Making the Tech Workplace Work Better in 2023 Martha Delehanty / 08 Feb 2023 The hand-wringing over the employer-employee dynamic has been non-stop ever since the pandemic sent people scurrying for home-office cover nearly three years ago. The cycle has played out almost like the stages of grief. The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting … Continue reading Making the Tech Workplace Work Better in 2023
The data clean room standards include DCR Guidance & Recommended Practices and will be open for public comment for 60 days. Chris Wood on February 16, 2023 IAB Tech Lab today announced the launch of its Data Clean Room (DCR) Standards portfolio, which includes the release of DCR Guidance & Recommended Practices, and also Open … Continue reading IAB Tech Lab launches first clean room standards
Google Talks Back: Tech Giant Asks Court To Drop Suit Over Alleged Spam Bias by Ray Schultz , February 8, 2023 Google has asked a federal court to toss a lawsuit filed against it by the Republican National Committee (RNC) over alleged bias in spam-filter placement. The RNC sued last year after an academic report … Continue reading Google Talks Back: Tech Giant Asks Court To Drop Suit Over Alleged Spam Bias
By Grace Carroll February 03, 2023 The Black tech wage gap is projected to jump 37% in the next decade, resulting in $51.3 billion in lost wages for Black workers each year, according to a report released Friday from the McKinsey Institute on Economic Black Mobility. The report predicts serious challenges to racial equity … Continue reading As tech layoffs weaken DEI efforts, the Black talent gap could widen dramatically by 2032
Company Culture: The Key to Attracting Today’s Tech Talent Mike Monroe / 01 Feb 2023 Generally speaking, your company culture reflects how your employees feel at work. It encompasses workers’ thoughts on your organization, their career goals, the practices they follow, and more. And as the job market becomes more competitive, more candidates will examine … Continue reading Company Culture: The Key to Attracting Today’s Tech Talent
Meta fined $414 million in EU for requiring personalized ads Jon Fingas @jonfingas Meta is facing yet another European Union fine. As hinted last month, EU authorities are fining Meta €390 million (about $414 million) after determining that the company illegally required that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users accept personalized ads. The social media … Continue reading EU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violations
By Nicole Gull McElroy January 30, 2023 “Make no mistake, this layoff isn’t about low performers.” Judy Wert leans over her laptop, her head in her hands, cataloging the emails, text messages, and phone calls she’s received in the past week from friends, clients, and colleagues. This is her new normal in the wake … Continue reading What do the Big Tech layoffs mean for designers?
AI-Based Enterprise Search Integrates Tech From OpenAI, Google, Others by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 31, 2023 C3 AI, an artificial intelligence software company founded by entrepreneur Thomas Siebel, released the first product in a suite it calls C3 Generative AI Product Suite. The first product, C3 Generative AI for Enterprise Search, uses a … Continue reading AI-Based Enterprise Search Integrates Tech From OpenAI, Google, Others
