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Visualizing Tech Company Layoffs in 2022 visualcapitalist.com/visuali… via @VisualCap

Visualizing Tech Company Layoffs in 2022

Mass layoffs in the tech industry have accelerated as the end of 2022 approaches. See which companies let people go in 2022.

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@SergioRocks7 Dec 2022
ChatGPT is the last nail on the coffin, for coding interviews. Three examples:
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Meta’s legless #metaverse… Meta is desperately trying to make the metaverse happen technologyreview.com/2022/10…

Meta is desperately trying to make the metaverse happen

Will web access and avatar legs be enough?

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Journalist from @NYTimes gives Facebook’s version of the #metaverse a fair shake. The billions of dollars in investment Zuckerberg is making made might not be the bet most of us would make. nytimes.com/2022/10/07/techn…

This Is Life in the Metaverse (Published 2022)

Every hour of the day and night with the gamers, parents, insomniacs, preteens and aspiring comedians who are the earliest adopters of the immersive, three-dimensional internet that Mark Zuckerberg...

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“Meta released the social network in the #USA and #Canada last December and is slowly rolling it out to the rest of the world” — via @nytimes Most people won’t care. Actual reality, books, nature, and real play are all more enjoyable. #Metaverse #VirtualReality #Facebook
How epic is this #fail? 🤦🏽‍♀️ #Metaverse #EpicFail kotaku.com/meta-facebook-vr-…

Report: Even Facebook Isn't Using Its Own Metaverse, Begs Employees To Spend Time In It [Update] -...

The VR project is not popular among Meta staff, according to leaked memos

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🏈 > 🛒 The prospect of missing an ⁦@NFL⁩ game generated more new ⁦@PrimeVideo⁩ subscriptions than any other 3-hour period, including during shopping events like Prime Day, #BlackFriday & #CyberMonday 🛍 #ecommerce #data via ⁦@CNBC⁩ cnbc.com/2022/09/20/amazon-t…

Amazon memo says 'Thursday Night Football' drew record number of Prime signups for a 3-hour period

Amazon is paying about $1 billion a year for exclusive Thursday night rights from the NFL.

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“Today marks 238 days since a large US tech IPO — the longest drought in more than 20 years.” via @MorningBrew 📉↘️ morningbrew.com/daily/storie…

Chamath Palihapitiya, the ‘SPAC King,’ winds down 2 SPACs

Palihapitiya kicked off the SPAC frenzy in 2019 by taking Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic public.

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👀 > 🛢 Attention economy > Oil economy ➡️ Another great read and perspective via ⁦@profgalloway #data #economics #oil ⁦@Medium⁩ “Attentive” by Scott Galloway link.medium.com/yjzuMd7Eotb
Adobe’s $20 billion acquisition of Figma is the biggest takeover of a private software company ever 😯 — via @Finimize finimize.com/wp/news/adobe-g…
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Misha
@mishadavinci4 Sep 2022
Web3 will soon disrupt the internet and entirely transform how the world works. But 99% are unaware. Here are 100 WEB3 STARTUPS everyone needs to know about:
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“technology developed at universities and then licensed to industry between 1996 and 2010 created $388 billion in GDP and 3 million jobs.” “Tech Billionaires Are the New Welfare Queens” by ⁦@profgalloway⁩ #gov #investing #publicgood #irony… link.medium.com/8Qn4h5lhOsb
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"The Human Genome Project cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion, was completed under budget and two years ahead of schedule, and has generated $966 billion in economic activity and $59 billion in federal tax revenue." $59B in tax revenue🤔 Tax the billionaires and recoup even more?
“As it turns out, what makes for good television doesn’t always make for a good investment”… 🤔 Mark Cuban hasn’t profited from his ‘Shark Tank’ investments | via ⁦@TechCrunch⁩ techcrunch.com/2022/07/22/ma…

Mark Cuban hasn't profited from his 'Shark Tank' investments

Overall, he says he's "gotten beat" from his televised business deals.

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A good reminder of how invasive #advertising has become 👀 Related thought: maybe #privacy DOES become the most meaningful part of #Web3…
Simon McGarr @[email protected]@Tupp_Ed12 Aug 2022
Replying to @Tupp_Ed
I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.
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#Teens have abandoned #Facebook | via ⁦@TechCrunch⁩ ⁦@pewresearch “Only 32% of teens aged 13-17 use Facebook at all, but in a previous survey from 2014-2015, that figure was 71%” ⁩ #bye techcrunch.com/2022/08/11/te…

Teens have abandoned Facebook, Pew study says

Instagram isn't too far behind TikTok, though.

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Book Review: ‘Fulfillment,’ by Alec MacGillis - ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ 🛒📚🛍 🥽🛷🏉 🏷 “Amazon reaps fully half of what people in this country spend online.” theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

Amazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power

Understanding America in the giant company’s shadow

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Partying like it was 1999… 😬
Roshan Patel
@roshanpateI18 Jul 2022
Just got unlimited cold brew and kombucha on tap for our office. It’s going to cost us $150k every 6 months. How do normal startups afford this?
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@Jobvo2 Jul 2022
1/ I've been managing people remotely for 8 years. Here's how to be a better manager in a remote (distributed) team:
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