Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at $37.11 and giving the company a market cap of $13.5B
@mcuban.bsky.social [image] X: Adam Nash / @adamnash : Congrats to the team & investors in @Chime on their IPO today. 🎉 Some of the best product ideas are simple. Chime did not come up with the idea o...
An oral history of LinkedIn, which turns 20 in May, as told by Reid Hoffman and its co-founders, current executives, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, and others
Social media, for work? The world was skeptical. But 20 years and a few white-knuckle moments later, LinkedIn has become synonymous … Tweets: @harrymccracken , @jill_bernstein , @adamnash , @jhong ,...
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages
ads on individual app pages—shows lawmakers and regulators must press ahead Mike Peterson / AppleInsider : Apple testing new App Store ad placements very soon Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Apple Adding Ads...
As advertisers struggle with Reels, Meta tries to ease them into the format, including, sources say, by encouraging them to test their video ads on TikTok first
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Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...
Apple, in a first, reported no CPU gains for the A15, likely because of the engineer exodus to companies like Nuvia and Rivos
everything we know Michael Simon / Macworld : The rumor mill got a lot wrong about Apple's iPhone 13 event Tweets: Dylan Patel / @dylan522p : A15 is a 7.6% ST increase with 8% clock increase. CPU arch...
LoanSnap, whose AI system analyzes users' finances and recommends a loan to improve their financial health, raises $30M Series B led by True Ventures
Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes : Tweets: @adamnash and @richardbranson Tweets: Adam Nash / @adamnash : Congrats to @karl & the @LoanSnap team on their new $30M Series B led by @TrueVentures. Proud to be an...
How Volkswagen's ID.3, the automaker's long-awaited answer to Tesla, was beset by faulty in-car software, prompting a reboot of the company's software business
Faulty software set back a bid by the world's largest car maker for electric-vehicle dominance Tweets: @kushalbhagia , @doubleeph , @wsj , @nicolasmagand , @hardmaru , @wsj , @davidmwessel , @tomgara ...
Facebook announces an open source AI model that can translate directly between 100+ languages without first translating to English
Introduction About Facebook : Introducing the First AI Model That Translates 100 Languages Without Relying on English J. Fergus / Input : Facebook takes on Google with direct translation for 100 langu...