Instacart CEO Fidji Simo tells employees that she is leaving in a couple of months, the new CEO will be a management team member, and she will stay on as Chair
Instacart CEO and Chair Fidji Simo shared the email below with Instacart employees this evening. You can read it in full here:
OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as CEO of Applications, reporting to Sam Altman, who says he will remain CEO and focus on research, compute, and safety
Sam shared this message with the company earlier today: — Hi everyone - I have some exciting news to share.
OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as CEO of Applications, reporting to Sam Altman, who says he will remain CEO and focus on research, compute, and safety
Sam shared this message with the company earlier today: — Hi everyone - I have some exciting news to share.
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo tells employees that she is leaving in a couple of months, the new CEO will be a management team member, and she will stay on as Chair
Instacart CEO and Chair Fidji Simo shared the email below with Instacart employees this evening. You can read it in full here:
Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Meta drops as much as ~8%, Amazon drops ~7%, Nvidia ~5%, Alphabet ~4%, and Microsoft ~3%
Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …
The US announces a 34% “reciprocal” tariff hike on China, taking effect from April 9; economists say the average US tariffs on Chinese products are at least 65%
Bloomberg :
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Da...
TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement
TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday …
Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like photo and video feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, initially to select customers in the US
After Apple rolls out its new App Store ad units, prominent developers complain about gambling ads appearing in their app listings with no way to stop them
Apple today rolled out new ad placements in the App Store on the iPhone, allowing developers to advertise their apps in more places …
Apple discontinues the iPod touch, leaving the device on sale “while supplies last” and ending the product line after debuting the original iPod in October 2001
iPod touch will be available while supplies last Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet : It's the end of the road for the iPod Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Apple discontinues the iPod aft...
Gurman: Apple's headset will likely cost $2,000+ and have two CPUs, one on par with the M1 Pro, two 8K displays, and an interchangeable prescription lens option
but may have M1 Pro graphics performance Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Gurman: Apple Considered a Battery-Powered ‘HomePod’ Years Ago José Adorno / 9to5Mac : Report: Apple's CarKey f...
JPMorgan Chase acquires The Infatuation, a restaurant discovery service that bought Zagat from Google in 2018
According to an estimate Apple Watch reached 100M users in December, 30M of which came in 2020; 35% of US iPhone users wear an Apple Watch
More than 100 million people wear an Apple Watch. Based on my estimates, Apple surpassed the important adoption milestone this past December.
Apple announces Best of 2020 apps and most downloaded apps: home workout app Wakeout! won App of the Year for iPhone, Zoom for iPad, Disney+ for Apple TV
Square says it is testing a short-term loan feature, giving between $20 and $200, repayable over a month, with around 1,000 users
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Square says it is testing a short-term loan feature, giving between $20 and $200, repayable over a month, with around 1,000 users
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal
- Uber agreed to buy Postmates, the fourth-largest U.S. delivery food service, for $2.65 billion in stock. — Uber had attempted to acquire GrubHub last month but talks failed.
Snap says more than 170M+ people access AR features daily and updates its AR platform with voice search, geography-specific Local Lenses, and SnapML
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :