A group of cross-discipline video game workers in the US and Canada announce United Videogame Workers, a direct-join industry-wide union organizing with the CWA
United Videogame Workers-CWA union formed for industry employees in the US and Canada Andy Chalk / PC Gamer : Game developers launch North America's first industry-wide union ‘to build worker power ir...
Peter Naylor, Netflix VP of ad sales since August 2022, is leaving, and the company will hire a head of US and Canada ad sales to fill his spot
yet Bevin Fletcher / StreamTV Insider : Netflix marks Q2 growth, expects ad tier scale in 2025 Brian Steinberg / Variety : Peter Naylor is Latest Senior Ad-Sales Executive to Exit Netflix Leigh Mc Gow...
Apple says Al Gore and James Bell will retire from its board this year, and Wanda Austin, ex-president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, will join the board
Dr. Wanda Austin joins as Al Gore departs Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : STEM advocate Wanda Austin to join Apple board Mark Gurman / Fortune : Apple undergoes its biggest board shakeup in years as 2 ...
Microsoft completes its Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with regulators in the UK and the US; Bobby Kotick will remain CEO through 2023
Combining with Microsoft will enable us to deliver more fun, more joy … BBC : Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard Tom Warren / The Verge : Read Xbox chief Phil...
An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his board exit, his reluctance to take the company public, and more
and today he cut all ties with the company Reuters : Instacart set to be valued at nearly $13 bln in Wall Street debut Ari Levy / CNBC : Instacart closed up 12.33% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the gro...
A look at Jony Ive's evolving responsibilities and frustrations at Apple that eventually led to his June 2019 resignation, adapted from the book “After Steve”
AFTER STEVE: HOW APPLE BECAME A TRILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY AND LOST ITS SOUL Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : How Apple's ‘Corporate Bloat’ Forced Jony Ive to Depart, Details Upcoming Book Eric Sliv...
Meta won't hold its F8 developer conference in 2022, instead holding Conversations, a “business messaging event” on May 19, and an AR/VR event “later this year”
Similar to years past, we are taking a brief break in programming … Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Meta Cancels F8 Developer Conference This Year to “build the metaverse” Oliver Haslam / iMore : There wi...
How Tobi Lütke led Shopify to becoming an e-commerce giant, helping ~2M merchants run stores as its market cap rose from $46B in early 2020 to $174B today
Tobi Lütke transformed the Canadian upstart into an e-commerce giant by being the anti-Bezos. How long can the formula keep working? Tweets: @bradstone , @jensmithwsj , @tariqkrim , @jensmithwsj , @r...
In a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September
and Leaks to The Verge — Pushing Back Against Returning to the Office Dan Pontefract / Forbes : Is Apple In Trouble With Its Hybrid Work Model? Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Apple Employees Ask Tim Cook t...