Uber names longtime executive Andrew Macdonald as president and its first COO since 2019; SVP of Delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty is leaving after ~13 years
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Amy Thielen / Seeking Alpha : Uber appoints first COO since 2019 to help steer autonomous driving strategy Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Uber delivery...
Amazon's senior VP of global media and entertainment Jeff Blackburn will leave in early 2023; Blackburn left Amazon in February 2021 and rejoined in May 2021
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Meta VP of Horizon Vivek Sharma is leaving the company after six years; the Horizon team will now directly report to Meta VP of the Metaverse Vishal Shah
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Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...
Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure
and that it might be toxic Lauren Johnson / Business Insider : Quartz's new app is banking on big names like Richard Branson to help create a 'constructive … Recode : Recode Daily: Facebook battles re...
Slack acquires Missions, a tool that helps automate routine processes and tasks in Slack without needing to write code
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Alphabet announces a new “graduate” from its moonshot program, Chronicle, that uses big data to detect security vulnerabilities, run by a former Symantec COO
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Apple VP of diversity and inclusion Denise Young Smith is leaving; Christie Smith, who spent 17 years as a principal at Deloitte, will be taking over
not long after making controversial remarks about white men Silicon Valley Business Journal : Apple diversity chief who made ‘white, blue-eyed blonde men’ comment is leaving Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac...
Steve Jurvetson is leaving Draper Fisher Jurvetson in wake of an investigation into sexual harassment, is “on leave of absence” from boards of Tesla and SpaceX
Explaining What Just Happened at Uber Ari Levy / CNBC : Jurvetson is on leave from Tesla and SpaceX boards after sexual harassment claims Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica : Tesla, SpaceX board member take...
Apple hires respected forensics and security expert Jonathan Zdziarski for its Security Engineering and Architecture team
I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted … Chris Mills / BGR : Apple quietly hires renowned iPhone security expert Mudit Mohilay / The Tech Portal : iOS expert and privacy proponent Jonathan Zdziars...