How startup founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, as some worry about frozen funds, operating expenses, and paying employees full salaries
'The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a leading lender to startups and venture capitalists … Bloomberg : Khosla Ventures Tells Some Startups Firm Will Cover Payroll South China Morning Post : China joint ve...
Internal Meta documents detail Instagram's struggle to compete with TikTok; users spend 17.6M hours per day watching Reels, far below TikTok's 197.8M hours
Reels faces formidable competition from the leading short-video platform; creators follow the views Tweets: @sal19 , @mrinaldesai , @stevekovach , @jeffhorwitz , @newley , @newley , @newley , @reaganb...
Sources: following Haugen's leaks, Meta sought to divide lawmakers along partisan lines to forestall regulation, as Zuckerberg told employees not to apologize
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg drove response to disclosures about company's influence; sending deputies to testify in Congress Tweets: @mrjohnflowers , @samidh , @startupljackson , @eliotwb , @kantr...
The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections
And What Isn't Nathaniel Mott / PCMag : Things Aren't Going Well for Trump's Social Network Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian : A ‘non-cancellable’ community: the ‘truth’ about Trump's social media platform...
Internal postings show Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, supported “strongman” Modi's party before he was elected in 2014 and disparaged its main rival
and never spoke up about blatant election misconduct on the platform. This is FB India, but it matters here, too. https://www.wsj.com/... Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : Reminder: What happens with Facebo...
As workspace usage of Slack and Microsoft Teams soars, lawyers see an uptick in harassment claims, as messaging is more informal and often misinterpreted
Chat applications have become a major way employees stay connected, but some see an uptick in agitation and bullying Tweets: @carnage4life , @chrisharihar , @kantrowitz , @kpyszczyk , @jaycuthrell , @...
A look at the proliferation of fake business listings and con artists on Google Maps, which experts estimate carries ~11M false listings on any given day
Data Sheet Joseph Zappa / Street Fight : Report: Fake Google Maps Listings Ensnare Consumers, Harm Legitimate Businesses Jason England / Android Central : Millions of fake businesses are currently lis...
A look at the proliferation of fake business listings and con artists on Google Maps, which experts estimate carries ~11M false listings on any given day
Data Sheet Joseph Zappa / Street Fight : Report: Fake Google Maps Listings Ensnare Consumers, Harm Legitimate Businesses Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Are there really millions of f...
As the scandal of Khashoggi's disappearance grows, Silicon Valley is mostly quiet on its connections to Saudi Arabia, the largest funding source for US startups
AI Is Getting Baked Into Everything From Tech Companies Tweets: Ragp Soylu / @ragipsoylu : SIGNIFICANT #Khashoggi updates: • Turkish official tells CNN that Khashoggi was cut into pieces • Turks to AJ...
A profile of Alastair MacTaggart, a semi-retired real estate developer who spent $3M on the ballot measure that led to California's tough data privacy bill
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @eliotwb Tweets: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : the RE developer who wasn't very politically active, isn't into tech, yet forced one of the most sweeping data privacy laws in ...