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☆ How a college student uses TikTok to scale her photography side hustle with passive income and find clients she's excited about
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cheung booked five figures in revenue last year, some of which came from passive income streams. She explains how she leveraged TikTok to find clients and earns passive income from her side hustle. TikTok changed my business trajectoryThe majority of my clients found me on TikTok. It's also been great for generating customers in other creative fields because many of them use TikTok for work, too. CheungI expanded my services to include passive income streamsEarlier in the pandemic, I also developed my own "presets."

☆ 'Prompt engineering' is one of the hottest jobs in generative AI. Here's how it works.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Knowing how to talk to chatbots may get you hired as a prompt engineer for generative AI. Prompt engineers are experts in asking AI chatbots — which run on large language models — questions that can produce desired responses. Unlike traditional computer engineers who code, prompt engineers write prose to test AI systems for quirks; experts in generative AI told The Washington Post that this is required to develop and improve human-machine interaction models. Prompt engineering may not be 'the job of the future'Some academics question how effective prompt engineers really are in testing AI. Companies in a variety of industries are hiring prompt engineersThat isn't stopping companies across industries from hiring prompt engineers.

☆ Factbox: Tech firms, Wall Street titans lead job cuts in corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File PhotoFeb 8 (Reuters) - Big Tech firms and Wall Street titans are leading a string of layoffs across corporate America as companies look to rein in costs to ride out a global economic downturn. Here are some of the job cuts by major American companies announced in recent weeks. TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOM SECTORIBM Corp (IBM.N):The software and consulting firm said it will lay off 3,900 employees. read moreMicrosoft Corp (MSFT.O):The U.S. tech giant said it would cut 10,000 jobs by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2023. MANUFACTURING SECTOR3M Co (MMM.N):The industrial conglomerate said it would cut 2,500 manufacturing jobs after reporting a lower profit.

☆ Premium sneakers marketplace The Edit LDN just raised $4.8 million in a round backed by PJ Tucker and Xavier McKinney. Check out the 14-slide deck it used to raise the funds.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A startup operating a marketplace for premium sneakers has raised $4.8 million from Regah Ventures. London-based The Edit LDN connects luxury sneaker sellers to buyers such as Premier League players. A startup that has built an online marketplace for premium and limited-edition sneakers has raised a $4.8 million seed round from Regah Ventures. London-based The Edit LDN, which launched in 2020, connects resellers of collectible sneakers to buyers via its online platform. The Edit LDN claims to set itself apart from competitors through its product curation, speed, and customer experience.

☆ Factbox: Tech firms, Wall Street lead job cuts in corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Jan 11 (Reuters) - Big Tech firms and Wall Street titans are leading a string of layoffs across corporate America as companies look to rein in costs to ride out the economic downturn. HP Inc (HPQ.N):The computing devices maker said it expected to cut up to 6,000 jobs by the end of fiscal 2025. Job seekers wait before a job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. Blue Apron Holdings Inc (APRN.N):The online meal-kit company said it will cut about 10% of its corporate workforce, as it looks to reduce costs and streamline operations. Last year, company executives had said the home goods retailer was cutting about 20% of its corporate and supply chain workforce.

☆ Factbox: FACTBOX Tech firms, Wall Street lead job cuts in Corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Big Tech firms and Wall Street titans are leading a string of layoffs across corporate America as companies look to rein in costs to ride out the economic downturn. Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O):The networking and collaboration solutions company said it will undertake restructuring which could impact roughly 5% of its workforce. The effort will begin in the second quarter of the fiscal year 2023 and cost the company $600 million. HP Inc (HPQ.N):The computing devices maker said it expected to cut up to 6,000 jobs by the end of fiscal 2025. Consumer and retail companies:Beyond Meat Inc (BYND.O):The vegan meat maker said it plans to cut 200 jobs this year, with the layoffs expected to save about $39 million.

☆ Factbox: Tech firms leading job cuts in Corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Big Tech firms are leading a string of layoffs across corporate America as companies look to rein in costs to ride out the economic downturn. Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O):The software giant laid off under 1,000 employees across several divisions in October, Axios reported, citing a source. However, Bloomberg later reported Twitter was reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs, asking them to return. HP Inc (HPQ.N):The computing devices maker said it expected to cut up to 6,000 jobs by the end of fiscal 2025. CNN:Warner Bros Discovery-owned (WBD.O) CNN's top boss Chris Licht informed employees in an all-staff memo that job cuts were underway.

☆ 9 tech predictions for 2023 from seed investor in Uber, Pinterest, and other top companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Scott Belsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

2022 was a pivotal year for:Collaborative web apps disrupting every function of the enterprise. Internet browsers will shift from generalized to specializedAs web apps, communal browsing, and decentralized technology continue to grow, browsers have become too generalized and antiquated for the future of web apps. Web apps offer virality and infinite possibilities for product-led growth, and are finally powerful enough for sophisticated apps like Photoshop. Browsers will be reimagined for collaboration and higher performance web apps — like Arc from The Browser Company. Content creators will own their audience and some will become "platform-less"Content creators with mass audiences are seeking novel ways to own the relationship.

☆ YouTube Paying Roughly $2 Billion a Year for NFL Sunday Ticket
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Joe Flint | Miles Kruppa | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

YouTube will pay an average price of roughly $2 billion a year to secure rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket franchise, people familiar with the deal said, the latest sign that the migration of sports from traditional television to streaming is chugging ahead. The deal cements YouTube, a division of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, as a rising force in streaming online and on television sets. The business, which began as a website serving user-generated clips with little curation, now also sells the cable bundles and prime sports programming that it once set out to supplant.

☆ Elon Musk is still cutting costs at Twitter, killing features and conducting layoffs as he tries to draw new investment
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Efforts to cut costs are ongoing, resulting in some Twitter features shutting down. Elon Musk is still very much in charge of Twitter and continues to drastically cut costs as he searches for new outside investment. Meanwhile, he's begun in earnest to solicit new funding from previous investors in his Twitter takeover. It was run mainly by Twitter's Curation team, which was almost entirely let go during Musk's first round of layoffs. Cost is top of mind in conversations that come up with Musk on any Twitter feature, the two people familiar said.

☆ Warner Bros. Discovery's new streamer could keep the name HBO Max as execs wrestle over pricing, timing, and content mix
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Discovery is considering the name "HBO Max" as well as "Max" for its forthcoming streamer. They're also debating how to effectively promote all the Discovery and HBO content on one platform. Discovery is still debating the name for its forthcoming streaming app that will combine Discovery+ and HBO Max. Execs are mindful that HBO Max ad-free subscribers are already paying at the top of the market while Discovery+ subscribers pay significantly less. WBD has been preparing for the new streamer launch by moving some Discovery+ content to HBO Max.

☆ India's Oyo lays off 600 employees as part of 'wide ranging' reorganisation
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Rhea Binoy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Softbank-backed Indian hotel aggregator Oyo Hotels and Homes Pvt Ltd said on Saturday it ins cutting 600 jobs in its corporate and technology departments. India's IPO-bound Oyo will cut 10% of its 3,700-employee base, while at the same time hiring 250 people, it said in a statement. Oyo Hotels first filed to go public in October 2021 but it has delayed the share sale due to market conditions. The company reported a net loss of 3.33 billion Indian rupees ($40.90 million) in the second quarter of the financial year compared with a loss of 4.14 billion rupees in the first quarter. ($1 = 81.4100 Indian rupees)Reporting by Rhea Binoy in Bengaluru, Editing by Louise HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ 10 Amex Business Platinum card benefits you'll want to activate right away, so you can enjoy hotel elite status, statement credits, and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Caroline Lupini | Joseph Hostetler | Freelance Reporter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

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☆ Twitter lacks transparency in misinformation fight -French regulator
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A spokesperson for Twitter in France did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. The spokesperson has not responded to queries since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter last month. Arcom has no power to sanction online platforms for the spread of false information. The 12 online platforms include Alphabet's YouTube, online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, Meta's Facebook and -- for the first time -- the fast-growing short-video platform TikTok, owned by China-based firm ByteDance. French laws also compel large online platforms to provide means to its users to report false information that could alter the potential outcome of an election.

☆ Twitter CEO Musk says user signups at all-time high, touts features of "everything app"
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has said that new user signups to the social media platform are at an "all-time high", as he struggles with a mass exodus of advertisers and users fleeing to other platforms over concerns about verification andhate speech. Signups were averaging over two million per day in the last seven days as of Nov. 16, up 66% compared to the same week in 2021, Musk said in a tweet late on Saturday. Reported impersonations on the platform spiked earlier this month, before and in wake of the Twitter Blue launch, according to Musk. Advertisers on Twitter, including big companies such as General Motors, Mondelez International, Volkswagen AG, have paused advertising on the platform, as they grapple with the new boss. read moreHundreds of Twitter employees are believed to have quit the beleaguered company, following an ultimatum by Musk that staffers sign up for "long hours at high intensity," or leave.

☆ Bob Iger's return may not boost Disney's shares as market sends mixed signals to media stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Michael Santoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This is the daily notebook of Mike Santoli, CNBC's senior markets commentator, with ideas about trends, stocks and market statistics. Valuations are less demanding than several months ago, which is probably fair for the average stock but fuller at the index level thanks to still-rich megacaps. Treasurys rising again at the longer end, sinking the yield curve further, while the dollar rebounds a bit — both risk-averse actions. The current economic activity levels are not observably recessionary, but the yield curve and its historical record of preceding recessions is in investors' head. Here is the enterprise value-to-forward-cash-flow ratios of Disney vs. Netflix .

☆ Factbox: Corporate America cuts thousands of jobs as recession looms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers jumped 13% to 33,843 in October, the highest since February 2021, according to a report. However, Bloomberg on Sunday reported Twitter was reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs, asking them to return. Coinbase Global (COIN.O):The cryptocurrency exchange said it planned to cut over 60 jobs, in its recruiting and institutional onboarding teams. read moreThe move marks a second round of jobs cuts at the company this year, and comes at a time when cryptocurrencies have been roiled by extreme volatility as investors dump risky assets. Walt Disney Co (DIS.N):The media giant is planning to freeze hiring and cut some jobs, according to a company memo seen by Reuters.

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▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Sarah Silbert | Jasmin Baron | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

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☆ A day of chaos brings Twitter closer to the brink
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Washington CNN Business —Two weeks after Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, the future of the company has never looked less certain. “Quite the day!” Musk tweeted. In its latest reversal on the matter, Twitter said it would re-introduce a gray “Official” badge for select accounts to help confirm their identities. “Stick with the new Twitter that democratizes every tweet by paid accounts and puts the onus on all users to curate for themselves. “Twitter usage is at an all-time high,” Musk tweeted earlier this week, before adding in a follow-up tweet: “I just hope the servers don’t melt!”

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☆ How Spotify stayed No. 1 in streaming audio even with Apple, YouTube and Amazon aiming for it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Barbara Collins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Spotify, once a Swedish startup tasked with tackling music piracy issues, is now the most popular audio streaming subscription service in the world. The platform disrupted the audio streaming field – being named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2013, also making appearances on the list in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 – and set the blueprint for audio streaming services to come. Spotify's success quickly caught the eye of major technology competitors, who have since released their own streaming music platforms such as Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music. 1 audio streaming service and has kept pace on subscription prices. The pricing tweaks continue between the players in the streaming music space.

☆ Elon Musk's Twitter girds for surge in U.S. midterm election misinformation
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Days after Twitter Inc fired half its staff and new owner Elon Musk tweeted a recommendation to vote for Republican candidates, election experts are anxiously bracing for a surge in online misinformation as Americans head to the polls on Tuesday. Researchers who study election misinformation say threats, offensive language and false rumors of election fraud have been circulating widely ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress for the next two years. Musk tweeted last week that Twitter would uphold and enforce its election integrity policies, after meeting with activist groups that have pressured advertisers to pull their Twitter ads. Musk tweeted a link to Twitter's content rules on Monday that caused confusion because it appeared to leave out rules for misleading content. Asked if Twitter had stopped enforcing against misinformation, Roth later tweeted "no".

☆ Meta will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning - WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee via REUTERS//File PhotoNov 8 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told hundreds of executives on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. The specific employees losing their jobs will be informed over the course of the morning, the report said. Meta reported more than 87,000 employees at the end of September. However, Bloomberg on Sunday reported Twitter was reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs, asking them to return. Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) also laid off around 1,000 employees across several divisions in October, according to an Axios report.

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