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Influence Archive

Archives for May 2018

Technology
Facebook is making its biggest executive shuffle in company historyFacebook is making its biggest executive shuffle in company history
Technology

WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook’s core app are getting new leaders as part of a massive executive reorg.

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
Chris Cox is becoming Facebook’s most important executive not named Mark ZuckerbergChris Cox is becoming Facebook’s most important executive not named Mark Zuckerberg
Technology

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger are now all rolling up to Cox.

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
The ‘IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME fund’ wants $36 million to invest in black female foundersThe ‘IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME fund’ wants $36 million to invest in black female founders
Technology

Arlan Hamilton and her firm, Backstage Capital, are raising a new seed fund for underrepresented founders.

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
Facebook’s new online dating service won’t have adsFacebook’s new online dating service won’t have ads
Technology

Plus other stuff you need to know about Facebook’s new push into online dating.

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
Elon Musk went rogue on Tesla’s earnings call and its stock plummeted. Here’s what he did and didn’t say.Elon Musk went rogue on Tesla’s earnings call and its stock plummeted. Here’s what he did and didn’t say.
Technology

“Excuse me. Next. Boring, bonehead questions are not cool,” Musk said in response to one analyst’s question.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Technology
Watch Samantha Bee rip into Facebook and tell Mark Zuckerberg to ‘get this shit under control’Watch Samantha Bee rip into Facebook and tell Mark Zuckerberg to ‘get this shit under control’
Technology

“Please don’t tank my videos.”

By Meghann Farnsworth
Technology
Despite all the Cambridge Analytica drama, Facebook’s F8 still felt like F8Despite all the Cambridge Analytica drama, Facebook’s F8 still felt like F8
Technology

Facebook’s developer conference showed that Facebook is still Facebook.

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
Elon Musk expects Tesla to be profitable in the second half of 2018, even as it misses Model 3 production goalsElon Musk expects Tesla to be profitable in the second half of 2018, even as it misses Model 3 production goals
Technology

Tesla only produced 2,270 cars a week in April, short of its adjusted goal of 2,500 a week.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Technology
Facebook will spend so much reviewing political ads this year that it will lose money on themFacebook will spend so much reviewing political ads this year that it will lose money on them
Technology

It’s hiring thousands of people to avoid a repeat of 2016, says Mark Zuckerberg.

By Peter Kafka
Technology
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t be paying publishers an annual fee for their stuffMark Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t be paying publishers an annual fee for their stuff
Technology

Sorry, Rupert Murdoch: Facebook isn’t a pay TV company.

By Peter Kafka
Technology
Elon Musk will have to answer for Tesla’s Model 3 production woes on Wednesday’s earnings callElon Musk will have to answer for Tesla’s Model 3 production woes on Wednesday’s earnings call
Technology

Is Model 3 production on par with Musk’s new goal of producing 6,000 cars a week by June?

By Johana Bhuiyan
Technology
Facebook is launching a new dating serviceFacebook is launching a new dating service
Technology

“This is going to be for building real long-term relationships,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “not just for hookups.”

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
The CEO of a health startup backed by Eric Schmidt and top VCs has been fired amid allegations he intimidated employeesThe CEO of a health startup backed by Eric Schmidt and top VCs has been fired amid allegations he intimidated employees
Technology

“This leaves us with no choice but to fire you,” the letter to HealthTap CEO Ron Gutman reads.

By Theodore Schleifer
Technology
Facebook will allow users to opt out of letting Facebook collect their browsing historyFacebook will allow users to opt out of letting Facebook collect their browsing history
Technology

It’s arguably the company’s biggest update since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
Former Twitter M&A executive Jess Verrilli is headed to Google-backed venture firm GV — againFormer Twitter M&A executive Jess Verrilli is headed to Google-backed venture firm GV — again
Technology

Verrilli left Twitter for Google Ventures in 2015. Now she’s trying it again.

By Kurt Wagner