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☆ Elon Musk is paying for a few of his favorite celebrities to stay on Twitter Blue, even after they dissed the new blue checks
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk said he's personally paying for several top celebrities' Twitter Blue subscriptions. Billionaire Elon Musk says he's personally paying for several well-known figures to stay on Twitter Blue after they refused to fork up $8 for a monthly subscription. "My Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue. James received an email from Twitter offering free verification "on behalf of Elon Musk," the outlet reported. Musk on Wednesday responded to the online discussion of celebrities receiving free verification, saying he is "paying for a few personally" to keep their Twitter Blue subscriptions.
☆ A top TikTok lawyer reportedly laughed when an employee asked about a potential ban in US
  + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A top TikTok lawyer was reportedly asked what the company would do if the app was banned in the US. Several countries banned TikTok on government devices, and India has an outright ban on the app. Australia recently moved to ban TikTok on government devices, a move that the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom previously made. India has had an outright ban on TikTok in place since 2020. Still, experts have said a full TikTok ban in the US is the last possible option for the US.
☆ Meta is slashing up to $500 off the price of its VR headsets after 'underwhelming' sales and mixed reviews
  + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Meta is cutting the price of its VR headsets, which are a big part of its metaverse ambitions. The high-end Meta Quest Pro will be reduced from $1,500 to $1,000. The headset has had mixed reviews and suffered "underwhelming sales," The Verge reported. The price of the 256GB Meta Quest 2 will drop from $500 to $430, while the higher-end Meta Quest Pro will get a $500 haircut to $1,000. They've been matched by "underwhelming sales," Alex Heath of The Verge reported in his Command Line newsletter on Friday.
☆ Meta's expensive flop: An executive reportedly told employees the company won't make a follow-up to its $1,500 'Pro' VR gadget
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Meta's chief technology officer reportedly told employees it's not making a second Quest Pro headset. The $1,499 Quest Pro headset has received poor reviews and sales, and was costly for Meta to make. The company's Reality Labs division saw a $13.7 billion loss in 2022, according to its fourth-quarter financial results. However, Meta's Quest 2, which is more affordable than the Quest Pro, has done "quite well," according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The Quest Pro is getting a $500 chop, while the 256 GB Quest 2, which is originally $499.99, is being cut to $429.99.
☆ Meta VP tells staff to make the metaverse 'so obviously successful' that his dad stops calling every week to ask about it
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A Meta VP told staff to "buckle down" and "build great products" for the metaverse, per The Verge. Only one in 10 users reportedly come back to its Horizon metaverse platform after a month. The VP reportedly said he wants the metaverse and VR to be "so obviously successful that my dad stops calling me every week to ask" about it. "And please, let's make the metaverse and VR so obviously successful that my dad stops calling me every week to ask me about it," he reportedly added. But only time will tell if Meta's products will keep users active in the metaverse.
☆ One of Elon Musk's most loyal employees was fired at Twitter. Here's how she went from surviving layoffs to the chopping block in the span of a few months.
  + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Crawford spent over two years at Twitter, according to her LinkedIn, working on projects like Twitter Blue and Spaces. Insider's Kali Hays first reported in January that 50 people on Twitter's product team were set to be let go. Following the first round of layoffs in November, The Verge reported Crawford told employees at Twitter that mass firings were "required" for Twitter to survive, which distanced herself from her colleagues. Unnamed employees at Twitter acknowledged this prominence in the FT report, saying she and Musk began working closely following the takeover. "She has become a bit of an interpreter between Elon and the product team," one senior staffer told FT.
☆ Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said he doesn't like seeing 'managers managing managers,' fueling speculation of more layoffs
  + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said managers should not be rewarded for creating larger teams. Zuckerberg reportedly said he doesn't think a structure of "just managers managing managers" is ideal. Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox has discussed the need to "flatten" the management structure, Command Line said. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyManagers managing managers managing managers managing managers…There's a corporate tongue-twister if there ever was one. "I don't think you want a management structure that's just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work," Zuckerberg reportedly said during an internal Q&A session in late January, according to Command Line.
☆ Twitter reportedly scraps holiday pay for contractors as part of new rules that will begin during Thanksgiving
  + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Twitter has cut holiday pay for contractors from Thanksgiving onwards, per a Platformer reporter. The measure will start during Thanksgiving, according to Schiffer. The Verge's Alex Heath said on Thursday that some Twitter engineers received an email on Wednesday evening, saying they were fired because their "code is not satisfactory." Twitter didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside of normal US operating hours about the company reportedly cutting contractors' holiday pay and firing some engineers. Twitter said on Monday in a company email viewed by Insider's Kali Hays that it was facing "a challenging economic climate where greater attention to cost management is essential."
☆ Meta is mad about Apple's latest policy change, accusing the company of trying to 'grow their own business while undercutting others'
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Apple's updated App Store rules give it 30% of in-app purchases for social media post "boosts." A Meta spokesperson told Insider that Apple's move undercuts other businesses and helps itself. "Apple continues to evolve its policies to grow their own business while undercutting others in the digital economy," a Meta spokesperson told Insider in a statement. In Meta's earning call on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged some of Apple's recent changes, including its latest App Store policy language around boosted posts, saying they are "obviously big risks" that Meta "see as issues." Meta experienced a 4% revenue decline in the third quarter of this year, continuing a string of disappointing quarterly earnings.
☆ Adidas is on the hot seat to cut ties with Kanye West
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Jon Sarlin | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
Balenciaga and Vogue publicly cut ties last week, and on Monday talent agency CAA dropped West as a client, and production company MRC said that it’s shelving a documentary on West. Celebrities including Kat Dennings, Josh Gad and Meg Stalter condemned Adidas for sticking by West. We are waiting @adidas,” read Shannon Watts’ tweet in response to the incident that received more than 100,000 likes. Earlier this month after West wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt in public, Adidas said that it was reviewing its lucrative partnership with his Yeezy brand. With pressure mounting and West’s hate campaign against Jewish people continuing, it seems the question is when, not if, Adidas will cut ties.
☆ Mark Zuckerberg says he enjoys 'being doubted'
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he enjoys "being doubted" in an interview with The Verge. "I enjoy being doubted," Zuckerberg said, talking about building something over time. When Heath asked Zuckerberg how he still enjoys being doubted and why, Zuckerberg said he thinks "it gets a little comfortable" if "too many people get or think what you're doing is obviously going to happen." "If you tune out everyone who thinks that you're not doing something right, then you're going to miss a lot of really valuable signals to do stuff better than you're doing it today," Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg told Heath getting more people onboard with his vision for the metaverse will "start slow" then "get faster and faster and faster."
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