Once upon a time, Slack was a sort of Switzerland of workplace productivity—a central collaborative hub that offered an array of integrations with other business tools rather than competing with them or treating one third-party offering differently than another. But the company entered a new era in December 2020, when it agreed to sell itself to software-as-a-service giant Salesforce for $27.7 billion. And today, at Salesforce’s TrailblazerDX ’22 conference, Slack and Salesf
The cybersecurity company Trellix says pro-Russia hackers had infiltrated the networks of numerous Ukrainian government agencies long before Russia’s ground invasion started in late February. In fact, hackers had planted malicious code in the networks even before Russian troops began assembling at the Ukrainian border in 2021. These findings were part of a broader report on the global cyberthreat environment from San Jose, California-based Trellix, which was created last year via a merger
While Elon Musk was making his bid for Twitter, another social media app has quietly moved to the top of the App Store rankings: Truth Social, the platform launched by former president Donald Trump after he received a permanent ban from Twitter for his role in inciting the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Among the top free iPhone apps available on the App Store, Truth Social has been seeing the most installs overall on the U.S. App Store today. (Twitter is No. 2.) According to Mobile Insights Str
Admittedly, it’s much, much too early to say with any certainty what sort of effect Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter will have on the social media platform, but news of Monday’s $44 billion deal certainly has plenty of people concerned. While the takeover won’t close for three to six months, some users are already abandoning Twitter, and others are testing boundaries of what might be allowed on the site. Most of the ideas Musk has proposed aren’t inherently bad
Incoming Twitter overlord Elon Musk believes that the service he plans to buy for $44 billion should open-source its algorithm. Good! Even if most of us aren’t in a position to assess how Twitter thinks for ourselves—even if the computer scientists at the company may not fully understand what they have wrought—transparency is better than secrecy when it comes to a critical piece of modern infrastructure like Twitter. But here’s what I’d also like: a little
You thought Lizzo was larger than life on Saturday Night Live earlier this month? Wait till you see her in Roblox. The pop sensation will be a featured performer on this year’s Logitech Song Breaker Awards, which will premier Saturday, April 30, at 10:00 a.m. PST on Roblox, with three additional re-airings over the weekend. The show will also be co-streamed on YouTube. It is, says Logitech, the first music awards show to take place in the metaverse. This is the second Song Breaker Awards,
Indiegogo announced Tuesday the appointment of Becky Center as the company’s new CEO, the first woman to hold the position. Center was previously a vice president at the health benefits platform startup HealthJoy. Prior to that, she spent nearly a decade at Groupon, where she rose through the ranks to become head of Groupon Coupons, an affiliate marketing unit. Center plans on guiding Indiegogo, which focuses on crowdfunding projects by entrepreneurs, in continuing to support creato
Spring is in the air, which means nicer weather, longer days, and the overwhelming urge to declutter the house. Might I suggest a dead-tree purge this year? Yes, it’s finally time to go paperless. It’s not quite as easy as just dumping everything into the recycling bin, but there are plenty of tools to help you go digital. Centriq: user manuals in the palm of your hand When we bought our house a while back, the former homeowner—bless his heart—handed over a stack of r
Twitter’s board has agreed to sell the company to Elon Musk, who will take it private. The deal was announced just hours after researchers at Tuft University revealed that Twitter users may not share in Musk’s enthusiasm for a Musk-owned Twitter. A sentiment analysis of 4.5 million tweets shows that while Twitter users very much enjoyed Elon Musk’s tweets criticizing the social media platform, their joy turned to sadness and anger when the multibillionaire tweeted his intent
Customers increasingly want to do business with companies that have a strong commitment to environmental, sustainability, and governance (ESG) goals. To win their business and loyalty, companies need to not only focus on these areas, but be transparent about how they’re doing so. In a recent discussion, Vlad Rozanovich, Lenovo’s North American President, shared how the company is working to achieve science-based ESG metrics by 2025. Watch the full panel, “Walkin