Here’s Microsoft president Brad Smith reacting to the FTC’s attempt to block the Activision deal with a John Lennon lyric... well-timed because today is also the 42nd anniversary of his murder. Whoops!
The latest cover of our sister publication features dozens of famous New Yorkers all crossing the same intersection. How? Photographer Pelle Cass created a grid of walkways and timings and gave ‘em all call times, and staffers held up placards to guide everyone through a very not-closed intersection. Here’s the full behind-the-scene details.
Here’s legendary producer Timbaland talking about the different vibes he gets from audio software like FL Studio, Ableton, and Logic. We treat digital tools as though they’re interchangeable all too often, I think!
Operational Bob is OUT, Visionary BOB is IN.
It is incredible that SBF keeps talking, especially since it does not seem to be convincing anyone.
Netflix’s move into gaming is less about upselling things like weapons and gear and more about engagement, Reed Hastings told Andrew Ross Sorkin at the NYT DealBook conference. What would have been the perfect game for that?
I berated our M&A team that we didn’t buy Wordle, that would have been perfect for us.
Zuck is speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook conference today, and said that Reels is growing, according to Meta’s internal metrics.
It’s hard to track how we’re doing against TikTok, but metrics suggest Reels is half the time of TikTok globally, outside of China. We don’t aspire to be half of anything but that’s better than we were a year ago.
That’s quite a bit different than the picture painted by The Wall Street Journal in September: it reported on internal Meta docs that indicated Reels usage on Instagram was less than one-tenth the size of TikTok.
