During a keynote session at C21Media’s annual Content London event this week, Warner Bros. Television Studios president Channing Dungey shares some of the new steps the company plans to take as part of Zaslav’s vision for the future. According to Variety, Dungey expressed excitement about her division in particular, pointing to Zaslav’s openness to working … Read more
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken today announced job cuts, affecting 30 percent of its workforce, or about 1,100 employees. In a blog post, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell says the company made the decision to help it weather the “crypto winter.” Kraken, a platform that allows users to buy, sell and trade crypto, announced its plans to hire … Read more
Spotify Wrapped is here, and with it a slew of year-end charts, data, and images ripe for sharing. Beyond the standard personal data (top artists, songs, etc.), Spotify is providing listeners with socially-friendly metrics that the company hopes will generate the kind of buzz it has had in the past, urging competitors like Apple Music … Read more
Workers at the massive Foxconn facility have reportedly been forced to live on site in an effort to contain a covid outbreak. Protests ensued, with workers citing withheld wages and poor conditions, prompting Foxconn to offer some newly hired workers $1,400 to leave the facility. When the strict lockdown measures went into effect earlier this … Read more
Twitter’s revamped Blue subscription may not be available as an in-app purchase on iOS when it eventually relaunches, so it can dodge Apple’s 30 percent off App Store purchases, according to Platform game. When the new Blue was available for a short time earlier this month, it was possible nothing but buy it through Twitter’s … Read more
It’s a good day when you get a free replacement for something that’s broken. For me it was a new controller. My old controller had its right stick broken off in my bag. Despite the protruding nub breaking off, the analog mechanism still worked – so I contacted the manufacturer for a replacement stick, and … Read more
The best of 2022 lists and year-end recaps are just around the corner, including Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s flashy interactive feature that’s become an annual tradition that overtakes social media by a few days. Its main competitor, Apple Music, also made some chart hits for listeners, and this time comes with some changes. Apple … Read more
Oh Elon. It was pretty clear something was up when Twitter’s new CEO tweeted out of the blue that “Apple has largely stopped advertising on Twitter,” and asked if “Do they hate free speech in America?” After a question from my colleague Jake Kastrenakes, Musk confirmed that the iPhone maker was threatening Twitter’s presence in … Read more
Twitter could be in big trouble when it comes to generating ad revenue: GroupM, part of WPP, the world’s largest advertising company – and Twitter’s largest publisher – reportedly tells its customers that buying ads on the platform is “high risk” is, according to Platform game and Digiday. That makes it the third advertising juggernaut … Read more
Our first deal of the week is a good one. You can get $400 off the 42-inch LG C2 OLED TV, which is currently discounted to $899.99 at Best Buy – its lowest price yet. While the features of the C2 are largely identical to the older C1, including a 120 Hz refresh rate, Dolby … Read more
The Schlage Encode Plus, the popular smart lock with Home Key functionality, will not be upgraded to support Matter. Schlage told The edge that this is due to several factors, including changes in specifications since the product was manufactured. It also confirmed that none of its current smart locks will support Matter. Instead, Schlage plans … Read more
Crypto.com has just admitted to making another very big and worrisome writing error: it accidentally sent 320,000 in Ethereum (~$416 million USD) to another cryptocurrency exchange called Gate.io about three weeks ago (via Web3 is just going great). In a message on TwitterCrypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek Says the Company Was supposed to send the crypto … Read more