Bolt Financial laid off 185 employees, or about one-third of its workforce; some have to repay loans they took from the company for vested shares within 90 days
The Daily Brief is a free glimpse into the prevailing fundamental … Lindsey Choo / Protocol : Bolt lays off employees in a company restructuring Erin Woo / New York Times : Bolt, the payments start-up...
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
Stack Overflow, which has 100M+ monthly visitors, says it will be acquired by Prosus, a European tech giant and Tencent's largest shareholder, for $1.8B
and also mints 61 new millionaires. Joel Spolsky / @spolsky : New blog post: Kinda a big announcement https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ ... Jack Forge / @thejackforge : For those that didn't know that S...
Facebook is reorganizing its unit focused on its role in global elections, moving staff into a larger organization called Central Integrity, led by Guy Rosen
Alex Heath / The Information : Tweets: @jamesrbuk and @hhariri Tweets: James Ball / @jamesrbuk : This is a great way to signal to around 190 countries that US elections are the only one Facebook thin...
Leaked Facebook memo describes company's lobbying efforts in 2012 and 2013 against a proposed European data directive which later became GDPR, more
some of this is not actually new news & was in the public domain two years ago (2017) thanks to my Irish journo colleagues at the Irish Independent. It made top of the news here at the time: http://ww...
Dropbox says it's cutting some employee perks including SF shuttle bus, gym laundry service, and unlimited dinner guests in leaked memo
When Dropbox employees walked into their new office on Brannan Street last month, they were dazzled by something they hadn't seen before — a gleaming, 5-foot-tall panda statue made of chrome. Tweets: ...