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A potential TikTok ban is back in the news—and this attempt feels different. Plus, Musk on the attack and more on this week's More or Less.
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Fresh off Sridhar Ramaswamy’s appointment as CEO of Snowflake, we published an Org Chart for the cloud database software company this week, highlighting the 41 top executives. Snowflake is the latest software company added to our Org Charts catalog. We published ServiceNow and MongoDB earlier this year, and we’ve long had Org Charts for Salesforce and Adobe, among others. I spent the week...
The inner sanctum of one of Silicon Valley’s most intriguing investors is a small, bland room in Los Altos Hills, Calif., filled on a recent morning by little more than a marble-top conference table, a whiteboard and a stack of bagged spicy chili potato chips. The home office belongs to General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja, and it’s partly from here that he has plotted an investment philosophy that...
There was a moment last summer when Elon Musk had challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a mixed martial arts fight, and I, for once, had sympathy for Meta Platforms’ public relations team. The owner of X was proposing he settle his differences with Zuckerberg by fighting him in the Roman Colosseum. It was absurd. And yet, months later, it seems to be a metaphor for where more and more companies find...
For much of the past year, most articles about fintech startups have sounded alike: A once high-valued startup struggles to live up to its lofty valuation after interest rates spike, making it difficult to fund expansive growth plans. (I wrote about one, Chipper Cash, earlier this week.) But an announcement from a U.K. neobank has offered a glimmer of hope for the trodden-down sector. This week,...
Here we go again! TikTok is back in the crosshairs of the U.S. government and it’s already using the most valuable marketing real estate at its disposal—its own app—to rally U.S. users to its defense. Over the last day, some people with the TikTok smartphone app received push notifications stating that it “is at risk of being shut down in the U.S.” If users clicked on the notification, it led to...
A bipartisan bill to ban TikTok unless it cuts ties with its Chinese owner, ByteDance, cleared a crucial hurdle in the House of Representatives on Thursday when the House Energy Committee approved it with a unanimous vote. The vote signaled that a long-simmering threat to the app may be boiling over into concrete action.
The bill’s quick progress prompted TikTok to reactivate creators to help...
Here’s an increasingly familiar feeling: You see an image and you can’t tell if it was made or manipulated using artificial intelligence. It’s a big problem, given the potential of fake images to influence elections, among other things. Fortunately, many of the companies whose technology makes it easy to create and spread AI-generated content now are introducing ways to identify and label that...
Less than two years ago, Amazon had big plans to continue its march into the sizable areas of the world where it hadn’t yet officially opened an online store for business.
In 2022, it planned to launch local versions of its store that year in at least three new European countries—Ireland, Belgium and Switzerland—according to a person who worked on Amazon’s international business. That same year...
Two Tesla veterans have formed a startup to apply X-ray technology to one of the biggest problems for the makers of electric vehicle batteries: finding defects in the batteries as they’re made—and before they cause bigger problems.