Have you heard about the September exodus? More than four million Americans quit their jobs that month, shattering the record for resignations previously set the month before. And some 40{a78e43caf781a4748142ac77894e52b42fd2247cba0219deedaee5032d61bfc9} of remaining employees are thinking of quitting, too, according to a Microsoft report. The crisis is even worse in technology. […]
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A funny thing happened on the way to the stock market’s retreat. Stay-at-home stocks that benefitted most from Covid-19 and the ensuing lockdowns, like Etsy, DoorDash, Zoom and DocuSign, were the worst performers this week. It’s the opposite reaction that one might expect as the new Covid omicron variant, which […]
Getty Images Clearview AI, the company behind a controversial facial recognition system that scrapes social media sites to add pictures of people to its database, is on the cusp of receiving a patent for its technology. The company confirmed Saturday that the US Trademark and Patent Office had sent it […]
Microsoft has taken an aggressive new approach to discourage users from downloading Google’s Chrome Web browser. The Redmond-based company has started showing prompts when users try to download Chrome using Microsoft Edge that dissuade them from downloading and installing Google’s Web browser. The prompts are in place for both Windows […]
Parag Agrawal’s appointment to the top spot at Twitter amplifies the role of immigrants in the world’s top tech firms. By Vlad Savov and Saritha RaiBloomberg Published On 30 Nov 202130 Nov 2021 Twitter Inc. on Monday became the latest Silicon Valley titan to appoint an Indian-born chief executive officer, joining […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over the helm, the company said Monday. Shares of Twitter closed down 2.74{a78e43caf781a4748142ac77894e52b42fd2247cba0219deedaee5032d61bfc9} on the day. Dorsey, 45, was serving as both the CEO of Twitter […]