Fastly hires Todd Nightingale as CEO
Fastly announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Todd Nightingale as the company’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective September 1, 2022. Nightingale will also join the Fastly Board of Directors upon assuming the role. He will succeed.....»»
Daily Crunch: Fastly CDN outage briefly takes Twitch, Reddit and Pinterest offline
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day a.....»»
Founders must show investors that sustainability is more than lip service
Even without regulation as a stick, consumer demand is now serving as a carrot to increase sustainability’s impact on public companies’ agendas. Todd Klein Contributor Share on Twitter.....»»
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour)
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour).....»»
Massive internet outage: Websites and apps around the world go dark
Countless websites and apps around the world went down Tuesday after Fastly, a major content delivery network, reported a widespread failure......»»
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage.....»»
White House Hires Broadband Expert
Lisa Hone, a longtime Federal Communications Commission attorney with deep expertise in broadband policy, has joined the National Economic Council team to steer the Biden administration's broadband expansion efforts. From a report: Expanding broadban.....»»
Songbirds can control single vocal muscle fibers when singing
The melodic and diverse songs of birds frequently inspire pop songs and poems, and have been for centuries, all the way back to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" or "The Nightingale" by H.C. Andersen......»»
Simplified raises $2.2 million in seed to bring automated content creation to marketers
Simplified, a marketing-focused design software looking to take on Canva, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Craft Ventures. Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg, former Uber CPO Manik Gupta, Pelican Ventures Ajay Yadav (also.....»»
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team
Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take over the lead of Search, Assistant and Maps. Now, sources familiar with the hiring tell us, the company.....»»
Hyundai hires its first-ever African American marketing agency
Maryland-based Culture Brands will get a broad remit as the Korean automaker courts Black buyers in the U.S......»»
Lucid hires Waymo veteran as CFO
Sherry House, who was treasurer and head of investor relations at Waymo, starts in her new role at Lucid this week......»»
Bytecode Alliance Expands as Microsoft, Google, Intel Promote Fast, Secure Development with WebAssembly
There was a big announcement this week from Mozilla. They've joined Fastly, Intel, and Microsoft "in announcing the incorporation and expansion of the Bytecode Alliance, a cross-industry partnership to advance a vision for fast, secure, and simplifie.....»»
10 Skills and Traits for Customer Experience Professionals in 2021 and Beyond
We asked industry leaders what the skills and traits are that they look for most when evaluating new customer experience hires. Continue reading........»»
Renault hires inventor of Apple"s Siri voice assistant to lead AI push
Renault has named Luc Julia, a global expert in artificial intelligence and one of the inventors of Apple's Siri voice assistant as its group chief scientific officer......»»
Morpheus Turns a CPU Into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers
University of Michigan’s Todd Austin explains how his team’s processor defeated every attack in DARPA's hardware hacking challenge Last summer, 580 cybersecurity researchers spent 13,000 hours trying to break into a new kind of.....»»
Apple TV+ plans to increase rate of original film production, hires ex-WarnerMedia film executive
According to a new report from The Information, Apple has hired away Jessie Henderson from WarnerMedia as the company looks to expand its investment in original film production. The new hire will join the Apple Original Films division as Apple look.....»»
Apple hires WarnerMedia executive Jessie Henderson as part of film push
Apple has reportedly hired former WarnerMedia executive Jessie Henderson as part of its effort to ramp up original film production for Apple TV+.Credit: WarnerMediaHenderson will join Apple TV+ as part of the entertainment team headed up by Jamie Erl.....»»
Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup
Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith talks about how to ensure the critical early hires are the right ones to grow a business. From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’.....»»
EQT Ventures promotes Laura Yao to partner; hires Anne Raimondi as operating partner
EQT Ventures, an investment firm based in Europe, which has raised over €1.2 billion ($1.4B USD) announced that it has promoted Laura Yao to partner. At the same time, the firm announced it recently hired Anne Raimondi, former SVP of Operations at.....»»
Amazon Hires Former Executive Adam Selipsky To Run AWS
Amazon has chosen Adam Selipsky to run its Amazon Web Services division. Currently, Selipsky is CEO of Salesforce-owned data-visualization software maker Tableau. Andy Jassy made the decision as the current head of AWS, after he was chosen to replace.....»»