Month: February 2021
Hill Report: who wants to talk to Reddit?
Weeks after Reddit community r/WallStreetBets shitposted GameStop stock up to more than $400 a share, the House Financial Services Committee pulled all of the major players in for questioning on Thursday. The hearing featured: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, whose commission-free brokerage platform made WallStreetBets’ GameStop short squeeze possible — well,…
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Chorus brings a social layer to meditation
Chorus launched its online experience on March 16 of last year. It was fairly auspicious timing, as those things go, falling the same day seven public health departments launched a joint shelter-in-place order in its native California. Like countless other companies, 2020 didn’t go according to plan for the meditation…
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Android 12 developer preview feature roundup: improved emergency calls, bigger notifications, and more
The Android 12 developer preview is out, and the internet is busy poring over it to find any new features or hints at the OS’s future. So far, there have been a few interesting things discovered, such as an Emergency SOS feature, some redesigns, and other useful, if minor, finds:…
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Salesforce Spring ’21 release reveals major cross-suite update Salesforce
Cloud giant Salesforce has unveiled its Spring ’21 release, complete with new loyalty management and payment processing platforms. The additional features should allow Salesforce customers to connect with customers more easily and boost conversion rates. “Today, the Spring ’21 Release features and products are available to customers globally — and…
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Microsoft announces Office 2021 for Windows and macOS Office
Microsoft announced its latest update to their productivity suite, Office 2021, this week in a blog post by Jared Shapiro, Microsoft 365’s corporate vice president. He also announced Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) for businesses that need a long-term, static option for the software. Like the previous release, Office…
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Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey will appear at March misinfo hearing
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has called a new hearing on platform misinformation to include testimony from Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Scheduled for March 25th, the hearing will be a joint effort from the Communications and Technology subcommittee and the Consumer Protection and Commerce subcommittee. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,…
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