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Graham Starr

@grahamstarr
24 posts
2025-08-25
Interesting. Perplexity's new “funding share” applies only to subscriptions for its Comet Plus browser https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-08-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Perplexity launches Comet Plus, a $5/month tier offering curated content, and says it has allocated $42.5M for publishers, which will receive 80% of the revenue

The company has clashed with media outlets over use of their work.  —  Add us on Google  —  Perplexity AI Inc. is offering publishers …

2023-11-29
Okta breach update: the company sent a letter to clients that hackers gained access to data for ALL corporate customers Scoop here: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-11-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Okta tells customers that hackers who breached its network stole information on all users of its customer support system, greater than the 1% claimed previously

- Okta had earlier said breach affected about 1% of customers  — Company said some Okta employee information was also stolen

2023-11-18
Big question: How did OpenAI set up a board with this much power and no visibility or vote for key investors? Microsoft, which has invested more than $10bn, also caught off guard by a ***CEO firing***
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

Big question: How did OpenAI set up a board with this much power and no visibility or vote for key investors? Microsoft, which has invested more than $10bn, also caught off guard by a ***CEO firing***
2023-11-18 View on X
Forbes

A look at OpenAI's unusual independent board of directors, which includes Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown's Helen Toner

2022-07-03
Big announcement from the Biden administration today: it will give Steve Jobs and John McCain posthumous presidential medals of freedom https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
2022-07-03 View on X
9to5Mac

Biden to award a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Steve Jobs for changing the way the world communicates and transforming the computer, music, and film industries

The Biden Administration has announced the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for this year.

2022-07-02
Big announcement from the Biden administration today: it will give Steve Jobs and John McCain posthumous presidential medals of freedom https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
2022-07-02 View on X
9to5Mac

Biden to award a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Steve Jobs for changing the way the world communicates and transforming the computer, music, and film industries

” https://www.whitehouse.gov/... Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : Jobs should surely have shared this honor with Woz. https://twitter.com/... Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera : one mor...

2022-05-26
NEW from @ashannstew: Microsoft employees say there's a widespread pattern of misconduct, including sexual harassment, among execs. “[They believe] they are untouchable and can do anything they want. You might as well swallow the abuse,” a former exec said https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2022-05-26 View on X
Insider

Interviews with former and current Microsoft employees suggest a widespread pattern of executive misconduct persists, years after Satya Nadella vowed to end it

The Microsoft executive walked into the small, windowless room in Studio C at about 8 o'clock that evening.

2022-05-13
This is really flabbergasting. Kayvon was pivotal to most of the company's key changes the past few years, was largely seen as a possible CEO successor before Parag's pick, and was just in December put in charge of all Consumer teams at Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-13 View on X
Reuters

Elon Musk says his Twitter deal is “temporarily on hold” pending a review of “spam/fake accounts”, but he is “still committed to acquisition”; stock drops 5%+

Elon Musk said on Friday his $44-billion deal for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) was temporarily on hold … Source: @elonmusk and @elonmusk .

2022-04-02
Amazon getting about as close as it can to claiming the union election was rigged (the NLRB oversees and arbitrates the election) https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-02 View on X
CNBC

Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US

- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.

2022-02-01
congratulations to mr. wordle on his million-dollar sale https://www.nytco.com/...
2022-02-01 View on X
The New York Times Company

The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures”

Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …

2021-12-17
Whoa this is huge — Oracle in talks to buy healthtech company Cerner in a deal potentially worth ~$30 billion, WSJ reports https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-12-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Oracle is in talks to acquire electronic medical records company Cerner, in a deal that could be worth ~$30B, which would make it Oracle's biggest yet

An agreement, which could potentially be worth $30 billion, would rank as biggest ever for software giant

Cerner's CEO was the former head of Google Health, who left Google this summer in a shakeup at the search giant https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2021-12-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Oracle is in talks to acquire electronic medical records company Cerner, in a deal that could be worth ~$30B, which would make it Oracle's biggest yet

An agreement, which could potentially be worth $30 billion, would rank as biggest ever for software giant

2021-12-07
SCOOP from @ashannstew: Facebook is shifting its ecommerce priorities and leaning heavily into on-site purchases on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 2022. The shift could see the company competing with “frenemy” Shopify. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2021-12-07 View on X
Insider

Internal documents: Meta will prioritize selling products directly on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 2022, partially in response to Apple's ATT changes

Ashley Stewart / Insider : Tweets: @ashannstew , @erikgroset , @grahamstarr , @grahamstarr , and @bitech Tweets: Ashley Stewart / @ashannstew : Internal documents show Meta is cha...

@ashannstew Whats ⬆️: - Investment in on-site purchases (IG, FB, Messenger) - More digital storefronts for FB businesses - Ads for on-site stores What's ⬇️: - Investment in off-site partnerships - new market expansion - ecommerce in the metaverse https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2021-12-07 View on X
Insider

Internal documents: Meta will prioritize selling products directly on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 2022, partially in response to Apple's ATT changes

Ashley Stewart / Insider : Tweets: @ashannstew , @erikgroset , @grahamstarr , @grahamstarr , and @bitech Tweets: Ashley Stewart / @ashannstew : Internal documents show Meta is cha...

2021-12-04
SCOOP from @HughLangley: Google is planning to launch its first branded smartwatch for sometime in 2022. It plans to compete directly with the Apple Watch and include heart-rate and other health monitoring features. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2021-12-04 View on X
The Verge

Report: Google's Pixel hardware group is working on the company's first smartwatch, internally codenamed “Rohan”, which it plans to launch next year

2021-12-03
SCOOP from @HughLangley: Google is planning to launch its first branded smartwatch for sometime in 2022. It plans to compete directly with the Apple Watch and include heart-rate and other health monitoring features. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2021-12-03 View on X
The Verge

Report: Google's Pixel hardware group is working on the company's first smartwatch, internally codenamed “Rohan”, which it plans to launch next year

A Pixel Watch is finally in the works  —  Google is finally making its own in-house smartwatch that's set to launch in 2022 … Source: Insider .

2021-10-21
“Hey Facebook” is causing confusion. Portal will only respond if everyone says “Howdy, Metaverse” https://www.theinformation.com/ ... via @SylviaVarnham
2021-10-21 View on X
The Information

Internal memo: Facebook has quietly killed the “Hey Facebook” wake word for Portal, as customers were confused by the phrase and it was affecting usage

Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information : Tweets: @grahamstarr and @amir Tweets: Graham Starr / @grahamstarr : “Hey Facebook” is causing confusion. Portal will only respond if ev...

2021-03-16
Amazon gamifies its warehouse workers to get them to do more work over their 10-hour shifts. Some games have them competing with other Amazon workers at their facilities and others. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2021-03-16 View on X
The Verge

Report: Amazon is expanding FC Games, “mini-games” that let workers compete for digital rewards like virtual pets by finishing warehouse tasks, across 20 states

The program, FC Games, is expanding to at least 20 fulfillment centers in the USSource:The Information.

Dozens of current and former Mailchimp employees told @TylerSonnemaker about the conditions that led to a “mass exodus” of women and people of color. They say the co consistently rewarded toxic execs and employees while sidelining women/POC at every level. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2021-03-16 View on X
Business Insider Australia

30 current and former Mailchimp staffers detail the conditions that led to a “mass exodus” of women and people of color, including high profile execs, directors

2021-02-12
Medium is the latest tech company to form a union https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-12 View on X
CNN

Staffers at Medium in editorial, engineering, design, and product units say they're unionizing; a majority of about 140 employees signed union cards with CWA

Kerry Flynn / CNN :