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☆ The era of Big Tech moonshots is over. Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are pulling back on ambitious, risky long-term projects after many of them failed.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Hugh Langley | Eugene Kim | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have scaled back their ambitious "moonshot" projects. Moonshots like Google X and Amazon Grand Challenge allowed tech firms to build innovative projects. Before Amazon, Parviz led a similar team at Google called Google X. Page and Brin championed X projects they loved, helping them gain funding and headcount within the unit. Parviz, who created the once-hyped-up Google Glass, left Google X in 2014 to start Amazon's Grand Challenge.

☆ Mom whose body was found in Georgia woods seemed "not afraid" in security video,
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Among the items found with Collier’s body were a red tote bag and a partly burned blue tarp. Investigators obtained the security video after they got a tip that Collier's daughter was seen at the shop that Saturday, the sheriff's office said. A review of the video showed that Collier herself was there — not her daughter, the sheriff's office said. The state crime lab was still conducting an autopsy, the sheriff's office said last week. Collier's body was discovered after a late model van that she'd been driving was found unlocked and unoccupied at a road pullout, authorities said.

☆ The ad industry is bracing for a recession. Here are 3 ways it could play out for Roku, Google, and Meta.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Lauren Johnson | Elizabeth Pham Janowski | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Analysts from William Blair predicted in a new report how a recession would impact three of the biggest digital ad sellers: Google, Meta, and Roku. Without a recession, William Blair estimated that Roku's 2023 ad business would grow 22% year-over-year. Without a recession, William Blair estimates Meta's 2023 ad revenue will grow 11% year-over-year. In the report's worst-case scenario, Google's 2023 ad business would decline 8% year-over-year while a bullish outlook sees its ad revenue increasing by 5%. Without a recession, William Blair estimates that Google's 2023 ad revenue will grow by 10% year-over-year.

☆ 20-year-old who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says Facebook took down his page because it violates their policy
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jack Sweeney said Facebook shut down his page that tracks Elon Musk's jets. "Really @Facebook," Sweeney tweeted. The billionaire told Sweeney he was concerned for his safety and didn't "love the idea of being shot by a nutcase." Sweeney previously told Insider that he countered Musk's offer, asking for $50,000 instead, but Musk declined. Earlier this year, he told Insider he stopped tracking Mark Cuban's jets on Twitter after the billionaire investor reached out and offered him business advice in exchange.

☆ How political candidates are targeting you on social media based on your music tastes, shopping habits and favorite TV shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Casey Tolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

(CNN) Marco Rubio hopes to sway voters interested in Chick-fil-A, Ram trucks, and Duck Dynasty. "Political campaigns are using that to their advantage." Rogan, a controversial figure who's popular on the right, attracted more attention from campaigns targeting Facebook ads than any other interest topic in the period analyzed by CNN. The targeting data shows a wide variety of approaches. But most people likely have no idea that they're seeing certain political ads because of their interests in a band or TV show, Woolley noted.

☆ No evidence slain mom who texted ‘They won’t let me go’ was kidnapped, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Investigators have also found no evidence linking the death of Deborrah Collier, 59, to suicide, the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Neither the sheriff’s office nor Collier’s daughter immediately responded to requests for comment. Deputies found the van a short time later on the side of a state road in Clarkesville, the report says. The sheriff's office said an autopsy was being conducted by a state crime lab. The news release said that the investigation continues and that authorities executed search warrants at locations directly tied to Collier.

☆ Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen launches nonprofit to make social media healthier
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen on Thursday announced a new nonprofit with the goal of making social media healthier. Haugen has become a well-known figure since leaking tens of thousands of pages of internal documents and later revealing her identity on "60 Minutes" last year. Facebook has previously said the documents were cherry-picked and their framing skewed away from potentially positive interpretations of the data. Haugen has more recently advocated for specific laws in the U.S. and abroad that aim to make social media safer for kids. Haugen voiced her support for the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which was recently signed into law by Gov.

☆ Alex Jones' billion-dollar judgement: The conspiracy theorist has turned career-ending setbacks into profit windfalls, but this could be too much to overcome
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Ashley Collman | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

Robbie Parker was later falsely called a crisis actor, and the Parkers are among those who sued Alex Jones for defamation. Longtime informal adviser to Donald Trump, Roger Stone (right), and and Alex Jones (left) speak to reporters in December 2018. Picture showing a computer screen displaying the Twitter account of Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones taken on August 15, 2018 in Washington DC. "Alex Jones is likely to continue being Alex Jones, which means he's likely to try all kinds of shenanigans to avoid accountability," said Holt. "The money awarded in damages does not repair what Alex Jones has done to those parents' lives, but it could be a step towards dismantling the toxic empire that Alex Jones has built around his brand."

☆ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting baby No. 3
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting their third child. "Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year!" Zuckerberg and Chan are college sweethearts and have been married since 2012. The Meta CEO announced Wednesday that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting their third child, a girl. "Lots of love," Zuckerberg wrote in an Instagram post, accompanied by a selfie of Chan and him.

☆ Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are spending more time on TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Mikaela Cohen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

ReutersThe explosion of TikTok's popularity has pushed the app into the biggest technology companies' focus. Google, Apple and Microsoft all have TikTok accounts, with over 8.5 million likes between the three. While Apple has more than 1.3 million fans on the platform, Google and Microsoft have 403,000 and 143,000, respectively. Big tech companies are finding success on TikTok by not only creating personable content, but by creating content that follows trends already on TikTok — often related to corporate humor and professional advice. While more users are flocking to TikTok, Easter said big tech firms could miss out if they don't invest in content creation.

☆ Exclusive: International money-transfer startup Higlobe gets $14 million from Battery Ventures
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Higlobe targets international freelancers who do multiple money transfers in a year. International payments-transfer startup Higlobe has raised $14 million in a Series A round that Battery Ventures led. Higlobe, founded in 2020, uses asset-backed stablecoins to facilitate money transfers between countries, but end users never touch the stablecoins. Other investors in Higlobe include TTV Capital, FJ Labs, Reciprocal Ventures, Paxos, Digital Currency Group, Gokul Rajaram, and Raptor Group. A large portion of Higlobe's customers are freelancers, especially in international markets like Mexico where freelancing is on the rise.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg has lost $70 billion in net worth, bumping him down to 20th richest person in the world
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's net worth has plummeted by $70 billion so far this year, a fall of 55%. Zuckerberg is now just the 20th richest person on the planet, way behind Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. But since then, it's tanked down to $55.3 billion, a fall of just over 55%, according to the data. Forbes puts his net worth at $53.4 billion. Meta's net income fell 36%, or more than $3 billion, in the second quarter from the same period in 2021.

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationCompanies Meta Platforms Inc FollowWASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A big group of U.S. states, led by New York, argued to an appeals court Monday that it should reinstate an antitrust lawsuit against Meta's (META.O) Facebook because of ongoing harm from the company's actions and because the states had not waited too long to file their complaint. She said the states' action was more akin to law enforcement so "laches," which forbids an unreasonable delay in filing, would not apply. The states are asking the three-judge panel on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reinstate a lawsuit filed in 2020, the same time that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued the company. Arguing for Facebook, which had succeeded in getting the state lawsuit thrown out, Aaron Panner argued that the two acquisitions were well-publicized at the same, as was the company's policies regarding third-party apps. Facebook has been accused of punishing apps on its platform that, for example, connect with other social networks.

☆ FedEx inflamed recession fears. These are our least economically sensitive stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

FedEx hasn't exactly been a perfect company in recent years, and Subramaniam acknowledged to Jim that FedEx needs to get its own house in order. However, the traditional recession playbook involves selling energy stocks due to fears of demand collapsing. Mixed bag The stocks discussed here have a mixture of economically resilient and sensitive characteristics to them, such as Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL). (See here for a full list of the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ Adobe, Figma Deal Signals New Era in Collaboration, Productivity
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Steven Rosenbush | Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

The purchase of Figma, whose tools are used by designers and developers, is Adobe’s largest-ever acquisition and extends its reach into new areas. The rising popularity of social networks helped fuel interest in an earlier wave of collaboration technology companies, including Jive Software and workplace chat company Yammer, later acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2012 for $1.2 billion. Startups that employ concepts of collaboration, including digital work-space company Notion, document company Coda and app platform Airtable, took off among software, design and product teams. Adobe is best-known by consumers for software programs—including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat—used for graphic design, video editing and more. The fact that Adobe was willing to pay so much for Figma reflects that belief that its software was fundamentally different, according to Mr. Saper.

☆ Google, Meta, Are Losing People to Walmart, Amazon in the Advertising Talent Wars
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Lucia Moses | Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon, Walmart, and others are in a war for talent as they build advertising arms. Amazon recently listed more than 2,800 advertising jobs on its site while Walmart's advertising arm, Walmart Connect, had nearly 1,000 openings. The biggest hirers were Walmart, Amazon, where advertising headcount has grown roughly fourfold in the past two years, and Instacart, per Revelio Labs' data. Walmart started building an ads business, Walmart Connect, in earnest in 2019 and has turned it into a $2 billion-plus revenue stream. Movement of advertising hires to Instacart, Walmart, Amazon, Jan. 2021-present.

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☆ My husband and I made $200,000 in revenue last year on Poshmark. Here's how I went from working at Bath & Body Works to reselling full time.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-13 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I resell shoes on Poshmark full time under the closet name "RNZY," which is my husband, Ryan's, and my name combined. From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a Bath & Body Works store manager in Burlington, Vermont. We sold shoes and clothing, but we quickly niched down to exclusively shoes. We both realized that we enjoyed the entire process of selling shoes — sourcing, cleaning, photographing, listing, and shipping. (We search for the pair of shoes on Poshmark and select "sold items."

☆ Social Commerce 2022: Social media and ecommerce convergence trends bring growth opportunity for brands
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-27 | by ( Insider Intelligence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

US retail social commerce sales will reach $36.62 billion in 2021, but that’s still about one-tenth the size of China’s social commerce market. Social commerce trendsThanks to the example set by China, brands remain optimistic about the future of social commerce. Examples of social commerce companiesSocial media companies have comparative strengths that determine its approach to social commerce. TwitterProbably the least popular social platform when it comes to social commerce is Twitter—especially after dropping its buy button feature in 2017. Social commerce market stats & outlookInsider Intelligence forecasts that US retail social commerce sales will rise by 24.9% to $45.74 billion in 2022.

☆ I've been on more than 15 cruises and even got married on one. Here's how to have the best possible experience while traveling at sea.
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-14 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

One of the biggest things I would recommend for people who haven't cruised before is finding a travel agent or advisor who specializes in cruisesEven with me being in the industry for as long as I have, having a travel agent is helpful. I decided to use a travel agent because I didn't want all the guests calling me, but this travel agent was with a bigger agency and the experience was awful. Travel agents don't cost money — they make their commissions from the ships and travel insurance agencies or tour companies. Travel insurance is also great because it covers anything from medical issues to trip interruption or even theftI'd never had travel insurance until my travel agent educated me on it, but it's been helpful already. I had my phone stolen in Paris last year and my travel insurance covered it.

☆ Facebook объявил, что его сотрудники смогут продолжать работать из дома
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Facebook расширила политику работы из дома на большинство своих работников. Facebook посоветовала сотрудникам не забывать ради тимбилдинга встречаться с коллегами лично, например, при посещении офиса. Facebook разрешила сотрудникам переезжать в другие страны. Например, работники из США могут уехать жить в Канаду, а сотрудники из Европы - переехать в Великобританию. Ранее Twitter разрешила всем сотрудникам работать из дома сколько нужно, даже после того, как пандемия закончится.

Persons: Марк Цукерберг, Марк Цукербер Organizations: Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Сбер Locations: США, Канада, Европа, Великобритания, Россия

Cel mai popular grup de pe Facebook printre șoferi a fost șters. Facebook l-a blocat”, a scris creatorul grupului Mihail Bagas. Grupul a fost creat în anul 2013 pe fonul protestelor șoferilor de maxi-taxi, iar în scurt timp a devenit unul dintre cele mai populare, scrie sinteza.org. „Viața a fost înainte și după Facebook și GBM. GBM nu a fost doar un grup Facebook, a fost o comunitate de oameni care au vrut să schimbe ceva.

Persons: Mihail, Mihail Bagas, Mihai Bagas, GBM Organizations: Facebook, Moldovei, GBM Locations: Republica Moldova

☆ We spoke with 21 of Matt Gaetz's high-school classmates. Some say they could have predicted the congressman's sex scandal.
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-14 | by ( Robin Bravender | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

His high-school classmates are gossiping about him on their Facebook alumni group. Insider interviewed 21 of Gaetz's former classmates this month, including alumni from his Niceville High School graduating class of 2000 and members of Gaetz's high-school debate team. Gaetz's high-school classmates have been gossiping about him in a Facebook alumni group. Defining 'archipelago'Some of Gaetz's high-school classmates also knew him from his days in middle school. In high school, Gaetz "thought he was smarter than the teacher," Donahoo said.

☆ В каком возрасте вы встретите свою большую любовь, согласно науке
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-05 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +7 min

Любовь и математика. Facebook выявил закономерность, что человек начинает чаще применять такие слова, как «счастливый», «милый» и «любовь» примерно за 100 дней до установки статуса «в отношениях». Но все становится немного проще, если у людей есть возможность встретиться вживую, а у исследователя — проанализировать, как они реагируют друг на друга. Математика утверждает, что первые 37% кандидатов для брака рассматривать не стоит — их вы просто оцениваете, выделяя самого классного согласно по вашим критериям. Это те пары, где партнеры все замечают и позволяют себе друг на друга жаловаться.

Persons: OkCupid, Ханне Фрай, Ханна, Фрай, Ханна Фрай, Вопервых, Джон Готтман Organizations: SAS, Facebook, Skype, АСТ Locations: Амстердам, США

Aplicaţia Facebook le va oferi, în curând, utilizatorilor două fluxuri noi, pe lângă cel algoritmic: unul ordonat cronologic, altul compus din persoanele şi paginile favorite. Pentru Favorites, utilizatorul poate alege până la 30 de persoane şi pagini. Recents, care va afişa postările de la cele mai noi la cele mai vechi, nu este neapărat o noutate în cadrul Facebook. Ce este nou, este faptul că Recents va fi mult mai uşor de accesat. Atât Recents, cât şi Favorites vor apărea în aplicaţia Facebook ca două tab-uri noi, lângă newsfeed.

Organizations: Facebook Locations: newsfeed

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