The LA-based tech company has 150 employees who have been displaced from the wildfires, Spiegel wrote in a letter published on the company’s website. Snap has donated $5 million to local relief efforts and “will do more,” he says.
Kevin O’Leary recently joined Frank McCourt’s bid to buy TikTok. Now, with TikTok facing a ban in one week, the Shark Tank host is playing golf with the President-elect. Hmm.
When Roy Austin was hired to run a new civil rights team in 2021, the company called it “an incredibly important role for Facebook and for the tech industry.” Now, Austin announces he is leaving on the same day that Meta is ending all DEI programs.
In his farewell post, Austin notes that members of his team will “continue their work” in different parts of the company. “Building for everyone, listening to everyone, and meeting the needs and expectations of our global community is pretty much impossible,” he says.
One of his private jets just took off from West Palm Beach after arriving yesterday.
On the way there, he stopped in Austin, Texas for an interview with Joe Rogan, where he got into more detail about his MAGA-fueled changes at Meta — the latest being his decision to end the company’s DEI programs. I’ve confirmed he’ll also attend Trump’s inauguration alongside other tech CEOs.
The streamer says the new season broke all kinds of records, including garnering 68 million views in its first week, which made it the number-one show in 92 countries.
The Indian government has lifted its cap that previously restricted the Venmo-like feature in WhatsApp to 100 million users.
As TechCrunch notes, Google and Walmart currently operate the vast majority of the digital payments market in the country. But that could be about to change; India is WhatsApp’s largest market with over 500 million users, and the messaging app is already heavily relied on there by small businesses.
