Gerald M. Levin, the former Time Warner CEO who oversaw the AOL merger, widely considered the worst corporate merger in US history, died on March 13 at age 84
but wow. He's dead! Cut a little slack! — www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/o... X: Steve Case / @stevecase : Jerry Levin was a pioneer and visionary. More than two decades ago, Jerry realized the Intern...
Current and ex-Snap staffers say Evan Spiegel has spoken admiringly of some of Musk's ideas for X as he promotes “hardcore” work to lift Snap from an ad slump
Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has lately taken to walking around his company's Santa Monica, Calif. …
At a conference, Sam Altman and other tech leaders say AI may lead to seismic workforce changes, eliminating many professions, a hard sell to those affected
At WSJ Tech Live, Sam Altman said coming workforce changes will play out unevenly — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. …
Yuri Milner, the wealthy Russian who invested early in Twitter and Facebook through DST Global, is carefully distancing himself from his Kremlin connections
Starting in the early 2010s, getting an invitation to Yuri Milner's château in Los Altos, Calif., meant you'd made it into Silicon Valley's … Tweets: @ivanlevingston , @mugdha_variyar , and @danahull ...
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout on Tuesday, the second in four months, demanding CEO Bobby Kotick step down, after a WSJ report
This story has been updated from a previous version. — IRVINE, Calif. — Employees at beleaguered video game company Activision Blizzard walked …
Facing an advertising slump, Google rescinds offers to temporary and contract workers; sources say around 2,000 people are affected globally
The company made the cost-cutting move as it navigates a slump in advertising created by the pandemic. — OAKLAND, Calif. — Google …
Sources: CEO of AI startup Clarifai says internal ethics officers do not suit small companies and that Clarifai would one day supply autonomous weapons
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — When a news article revealed that Clarifai was working with the Pentagon and some employees questioned the ethics … Tweets: @david_gunkel , @frankpasquale , @nytimes , @techwor...
Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure
Sheryl Sandberg was seething. — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
Google CFO Ruth Porat expects the company, which currently has more than 7,000 employees in New York, to double its staff in the city over the next 10 years
Search giant currently has more than 7,000 employees in New York — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.— Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it plans …
Inside the Snapchat “Council” where employees discuss their inner thoughts, and Evan Spiegel's attempts at self-improvement after company's DAU decline
On the second floor of the new headquarters of Snap Inc. in Santa Monica, Calif., is a room dedicated to helping employees open up. Tweets: @sarahfrier Tweets: Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : Snap CEO Eva...