A Company Has to Pay a Woman $105,000 in Back Pay and Damages After Firing Her When She Refused to Retire at 65
She had worked for the company for nearly 20 years.
Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp
Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, […]
Bud Light Leans on Humor, Wants to Bring ‘Irreverence Back’ With New Super Bowl Commercial: Watch
The 60-second spot called “Easy Night Out” will play during Sunday’s big game and is meant to win back the company’s core customers.
Following this week’s layoffs, Snap’s stock tanks 30% on Q4 earnings
Snap is not having a good quarter. Following this week’s news that the company was laying off 10% of its workforce, amounting to hundreds of employees, the company’s stock is now crashing after reporting a fourth-quarter earnings miss. The Snapchat maker’s stock dropped by over 30% in after-hours trading as investors reacted to Snap’s underwhelming […]
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Adam Neumann is trying to buy back WeWork
Adam Neumann, who co-founded flexible workspace provider WeWork in 2010 and notoriously stepped down nine years later, is attempting to buy the company out of bankruptcy, according to multiple reports. In a letter published by The New York Times today, lawyers for Adam Neumann, his latest startup Flow Global Holdings LLC and “their affiliates” wrote […]
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These VCs think the Vision Pro has a shot in the enterprise
The Vision Pro, Apple’s first mixed-reality headset, is undeniably impressive from a technical perspective. It reflects a carefully considered, thoughtful (albeit pricey) approach to AR/VR, while its operating system — visionOS — delivers genuine innovations in the areas of input and interactions. But apps make or break hardware, regardless of how compelling the base experience […]
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Virgin Galactic investigating anomaly discovered after last crewed suborbital mission
Virgin Galactic is working with regulators to investigate an issue with an alignment pin that was discovered after the last crewed suborbital flight in January. During post-flight reviews, Virgin said it discovered that an alignment pin had detached from VMS Eve, the aircraft that carries the suborbital space plane to altitude. The company notified the […]
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How Beatrice Dixon Bootstrapped until The Honey Pot found a home
This week Becca and Dom are joined by Beatrice Dixon, the CEO and co-founder of The Honey Pot.
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Can DocuSign restructure revive the company’s slowing growth?
DocuSign’s stock faced a setback amid stalled acquisition talks, leading to a 2.84% decline. Revenue growth slowdowns also pose challenges, as demand is easing.
The No.1 Reason People Become Franchise Owners Comes Down to This One Word
While franchise ownership can be incredibly lucrative, money is not the top reason people want to get into this sector.
Decentralized social network Farcaster is trying to reach mass adoption through Web 2.0 techniques
More often than not, it’s rare for crypto native users to have an easy, quick onboarding experience. Farcaster wants to change that.
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