Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican
www.semafor.com/article/01/0... [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now. Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA enforcement will gath...
Meta required a public statesman like Nick Clegg after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but now turns to the in-house Republican Joel Kaplan to appease Trump
The former UK politician was a public statesman when Meta required one. A different approach will be called for under Trump.
An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the company's London listing, establishing a sales department, single-board device assembly in Wales, and more
Jonathan Moules / Financial Times : X: @__neha and @sairee X: Neha / @__neha : TIL Raspberry Pi is a publicly traded company which spun out an education focussed charity. Interesting origin story htt...
Amazon says it will hire 10,000 more people in the UK, taking its total headcount in the country to 55K by the end of 2021
- Company said Thursday it would hire 75,000 logistics workers — U.K. jobs to be in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cambridge
Sources: this June, Zuckerberg told ~50 execs that Facebook was at war and he'd act more decisively, leading to reorgs, key departures, tension with Sandberg
including those who “run” it. http://www.wsj.com/... Venkat Ananth / @venkatananth : “Ms. Sandberg later confided in friends that the exchange rattled her, and she wondered if she should be worried ab...
Facebook says Joseph Chancellor, a psychology researcher tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, has left the company, but declines to say when or why he left
Alex Pasternack / Fast Company :
Sources detail Sheryl Sandberg's expanding role at Facebook following its delayed response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which she saw as a disaster
Wall Street Journal :
Amid the boom in AI, Silicon Valley's tech giants have taken their talent hunt for engineers and researchers to Cambridge, UK
A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry's biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city. Tweets: @matthausk , @cademetz , @satariano , @nytimes , an...
Average tenure of Facebook's top 14 execs is more than 9 years, most have been at Facebook since before its IPO, few top execs have left despite controversies
but no one ever leaves. I asked a bunch of them why they stay. http://www.recode.net/... Marcelo P. Lima / @marceloplima : Facebook has quite a team. “Nearly every executive on this list has had a lon...
Cambridge Analytica co-founder and whistleblower Wylie started a new firm, Eunoia, in 2014 that had the same dataset of 50M+ Facebook users, according to emails
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