By Clint Rainey January 30, 2024 Google invented Google Maps. Apple gave us the iPod. Microsoft introduced PowerPoint. In each case, these technologies began elsewhere—as an idea generated by a startup that was perfected by a new owner with greater resources. Corporate America is full of fat piles of cash being dropped to snatch … Continue reading Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft aren’t as innovative as you think. Here’s why
Sentry.io shares its story of what went right and wrong getting rid of cookies and how they’re now doing marketing. Constantine von Hoffman on January 30, 2024 How do you do digital marketing without third-party cookies? How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals … Continue reading How one tech company is doing marketing without cookies
By Michael Grothaus January 24, 2024 It’s been another brutal week for tech layoffs. In the past six days, numerous major tech companies have announced they are cutting jobs. The most recent is e-commerce juggernaut eBay, which has announced it will cut 9% of its workforce. Here’s the latest: Wayfair: Last Friday, digital home … Continue reading Tech layoffs tracker 2024: Job cuts at eBay, TikTok, and Wayfair this week
By David Cohn January 22, 2024 For the past 20 years, the media’s working relationship with big technology platforms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. has been a Faustian bargain. Tech giants provided access to the largest audience in human history (not an exaggeration) and in exchange, the media industry handed over ultimate control of their … Continue reading Media companies should turn to the Three R’s in order to navigate the tech landscape
By Associated Press January 19, 2024 Apple has promised to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment system to rivals, the European Union said Friday, as the U.S. tech company seeks to resolve an antitrust case and avoid a fine that potentially could be worth billions. Apple proposed letting third-party mobile wallet and payment service providers access … Continue reading Apple offers rivals access to tap-and-go payment tech to resolve EU antitrust case
The best tech support helplines for seniors (according to my 73-year-old mom) We, the adult children, can’t always be their only resource. Amy Skorheim Mon, Jan 15, 2024 lucigerma via Getty Images Engadget readers like yourself are probably more tech savvy than the average person. That means you may get roped into helping … Continue reading The best tech support helplines for seniors (according to my 73-year-old mom)
By Michael Grothaus January 12, 2024 Just two weeks into the new year, it’s already been a hard time for the tech sector. Any hopes that the layoffs that began in 2022 and accelerated in 2023 would begin to subside have yet to be realized as more major companies joined other big players, including … Continue reading Tech layoffs 2024: Discord, Google, Audible, and others add to bad start for the year
By Associated Press and Bobbie Gossage January 10, 2024 Twitch, the video game streaming platform acquired by Amazon a decade ago for close to $1 billion, is laying off more than 500 employees as the company tries to turn the tremendously expensive division profitable. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy in an email to employees said that even … Continue reading Tech layoffs: Amazon lays off hundreds from Twitch and Prime Video
By Michael Grothaus January 09, 2024 Unity Software, maker of the popular cross-platform game engine used by developers across the globe, has announced the first major tech layoffs of the new year. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated January 8, 2024, Unity Software said it will cut “approximately 1,800 … Continue reading 2024 tech layoffs have already started: Unity Software to cut nearly 25% of workforce
TikTok in $1.5bn investment with Indonesia tech giant GoTo Ali Rees / Last Updated: Dec 11, 2023 TikTok owner ByteDance is set to resume business in Indonesia by taking a majority 75.01% stake in Tokopedia with a promised $ 1.5bn investment. Indonesian tech company GoTo will maintain a 24.99% minority stake in Tokopedia, reports … Continue reading TikTok in $1.5bn investment with Indonesia tech giant GoTo
