Tag: Business

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice said they’ll develop an updated set of guidelines for deciding when the government will try to block future tech mergers. Washington’s main antitrust regulators–the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ)–made a joint announcement on Tuesday that they intend to look at big tech mergers through a different lens in the future.Read Full Story

‘In practical terms, we found that you could improve the number of likes of any given image by about 3% if you applied the appropriate filter.’ To pull in Instagram likes, the biggest rules are obvious: Be a name brand, or just have a ton of followers—and include witty accompanying text.Read Full Story

The agency is redefining how it thinks about harm in order to tackle big antitrust questions raised by companies like Amazon, Apple, and Meta. Lina Khan has given her first on-camera interview since being named chair of the Federal Trade Commission. In it, the legal scholar, who has previously excoriated companies like Amazon for nimbly working around antitrust laws to undercut competitors and expand into new territory, talked about the current state of the commission. Below are five takeaways from her conversation with CNBC’s Aaron Sorkin and New York Times columnist Kara Swisher.

Snack, a dating app aimed at Gen Z and millennials, says people who ghost too frequently will become less visible on its platform. A one-year-old dating app for younger users says it’s found a way to make ghosts disappear. Read Full Story

Maynard Webb says ask these three questions to help make decisions about returning to work (again). Q. Just as we were trying to get people back to the office and back to normalcy, omicron surfaced and changed our plans again. I would still like people to come into work, but I don’t know what is reasonable to ask our employees. It’s complicated with people in different locations facing different situations. What should I do to keep us moving forward in a world that keeps getting interrupted?Read Full Story

You’ve decluttered your home for remote work. Now declutter your mind. From the moment we first open our eyes in the morning to the moment we go to bed, we’re confronted with a barrage of decisions. Which outfit should I wear? What should I make for dinner? What’s the fastest route to take to work today? Our minds are often full of a continuous stream of tasks, and it takes a toll on our mental well-being. With so much information coming from different sources—from news to social media outlets to our own family in the background—our brains can feel completely overwhelmed.Read Full Story

Here are 4 tangible ways to make product design more diverse from the outset. People interact with machines in countless ways every day. In some cases, they actively control a device, like driving a car or using an app on a smartphone. Sometimes people passively interact with a device, like being imaged by an MRI machine. And sometimes they interact with machines without consent or even knowing about the interaction, like being scanned by a law enforcement facial recognition system.Read Full Story

Some apartment dwellers are getting the error message “At-home COVID tests have already been ordered for this address.” Try looking yours up on USPS. This week, the Biden Administration finally launched its free at-home COVID tests program. The program allows every household to order four free tests. You can find instructions on how to order your tests here.Read Full Story

Autonomous, electric freight trains are here to take on semitrucks. Trains may be an old technology, but they are still remarkable machines—operating with roughly four times the energy efficiency of semitrucks driving on a highway.Read Full Story

DoomsdayX is a new web3 studio giving fans a producer credit on their favorite artists’s upcoming music videos. NFTs entered the mainstream through the art world, as collectors paid headline-grabbing sums for digital works. And now there’s a growing number of Web3-first startups, including Catalog, Royal, and Sound.xyz, betting on the music industry carrying the next big NFT wave.Read Full Story