Jason Citron is the CEO of Discord, a chat app that has long been popular among gamers but is beginning to expand to other audiences. Courtesy of Discord Delilah, a college student, has been watching “The Bachelor” since she was 12, but she’s never known too many people in real life besides her mom who
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In this article SPCX Jonah Peretti, Founder and CEO, Buzzfeed, speaks at the Wall Street Journal Digital Conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., October 18, 2017. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters This was the supposed to be the Summer of Digital Media. Amidst a boom of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), companies including Buzzfeed, Vice, Vox,
In this article DOGE.CM= Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency branded after a viral dog meme from years ago, has a market capitalization of about $86 billion following a six-month climb of nearly 25,000 percent. Over that same time period, the S&P was up 19 percent, while crypto rivals bitcoin and ether were up 286 percent and 698
In this article BTC.CM= Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — Cryptocurrencies “have no intrinsic value” and people who invest in them should be prepared to lose all their money, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said Thursday. Digital currencies like bitcoin, ether and even dogecoin have
Gavin Newsom, center, smiles next to his wife Jennifer Newsom, left, and Senator Kamala Harris, during a rally in Burbank, California, last May. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images For all the talk of a California exodus, the largest U.S. state is in the midst of an economic resurgence. When Covid-19 shut down
An illustrative image of Amazon Shopping app seen on a mobile phone screen in front of an old (L) and a new (R) Amazon Shopping app icons displayed on a screen. Amazon has quietly changed its new Amazon Shopping app icon, replacing the blue ribbon on top that drew some unfavorable comparisons. On Wednesday, March
In this article FB Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images In 1803, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall was faced with an impossible
In this article FB Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 28, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters Facebook’s independent Oversight Board ruled to uphold the company’s January decision to suspend the Facebook and Instagram accounts of former President Donald Trump. But, the board said, the
In this article FB Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD Facebook on Tuesday announced that its Workplace enterprise communications software has now reached 7 million paid subscribers, up 40% from last May’s figure of 5 million. Workplace is enterprise software that companies can use as their internal social network to communicate with their
Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images An email chain revealed by Epic Games as part of its lawsuit against Apple provides earlier context about Facebook’s battle with Apple over its App Store. Last August, Facebook said that Apple’s App Store rules were hampering it from releasing its Facebook Gaming app for iPhones in the
Bill and Melinda Gates Frederic Stevens | Getty Images Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, said in a tweet on Monday that he and his wife, Melinda Gates, will be splitting up after 27 years. Financial details are not yet clear. Bill Gates owns 1.37% of Microsoft’s outstanding shares, which are worth more
Website pages from Yahoo! Inc., left, and AOL Inc. are displayed on a computer monitor. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Verizon will sell its media group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, the two companies announced Monday. The sale allows Verizon to offload properties from the former internet empires
In this article ROKU Alison Levin, Roku’s VP of ad sales and strategy Source: Roku In late spring 2020, Alison Levin was outside in her backyard with her young daughter and golden retriever. Both were running as quickly as they could — at one another, for the same ball. Inevitably, they collided. “She went down,
Karen Bleier | AFP | Getty Images Verizon‘s $9 billion bet on AOL and Verizon hasn’t led to riches for shareholders of the largest U.S. wireless company. But other buyers may still find value in some of the assets. Verizon is weighing a sale of Verizon Media Group — previously called Oath, and before that,
In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook Spencer Platt | Getty Images In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told shareholders that the company had bought about 100 companies in the past six years. That works out to the iPhone maker buying a company every three to four weeks. The statistic gives the impression of
In this article GOOGL MSFT AMZN AAPL FB Gwyn Photography | Digital Vision | Getty Images The tech industry is really two industries. There are the five giants, which operate at an almost unimaginable scale, and then there’s everybody else. Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft all reported March-quarter earnings this week, and some of