Twitter COO Anthony Noto is leaving the social media company in March for SoFi, a personal finance start-up. Effective March 1st, Noto will become CEO of SoFi, and Twitter's COO role will be filled by “other members of Twitter’s leadership team,” according to the company. Twitter shares tumbled following the announcement.
Netflix reports huge subscriber growth, adding more than 8 million customers worldwide in Q4. The earnings report painted a picture of a very successful 2017, with plans to invest much more next year. The streaming company credits its growth to an increase in original content.
Actors Debra Messing, John Cho, and director Aneesh Chaganty join us from the Sundance Film Festival to talk about their new movie "Search." The film tells the story of a father looking for his lost daughter through various means of technology. Most of the movie takes place on a laptop screen. Debra Messing and John Cho say they were excited for this film because of its unique storytelling. Chaganty says the movie took a year and a half to edit, whereas a typical movie only takes about four months.
And Kim Lopdrup, CEO of Red Lobster Seafood Co., talks about the big changes you can expect at its restaurants across the country. The company is introducing a new menu, a new look at its restaurants, and sustainability efforts across the board.
Seth Schachner, Managing Director at Strat Americas, talks Disney's taking control of Hulu, Warner Bros. and Discovery's split and how if affects the viewers.
The Tony Awards on Sunday lured 4.85 million viewers to CBS, its largest broadcast audience in six years. CBS says Monday that Nielsen data shows the telecast — hosted by “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo — scored a 38% increase over last year’s 3.53 million viewers. That’s the largest audience for the Tonys since 2019, when the telecast that year nabbed 5.4 million viewers and “Hadestown” was crowned best new musical. The latest version also had to compete with the second game of the NBA Finals, between the Thunder and Pacers,
After stumbling out of the starting gate in Big Tech’s pivotal race to capitalize on artificial intelligence, Apple tried to regain its footing Monday during a developers conference that focused mostly on incremental advances and cosmetic changes in its technology.
Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel last December, Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel” and expressed that killing the executive “conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming."
Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson once clashed on the court in the 2001 NBA Finals, but now the basketball legends are joining forces to revive the Reebok brand they helped make iconic.
Midea is voluntarily recalling about 1.7 million of its popular U and U+ Smart air conditioners because pooled water in the units may not drain fast enough, leading to mold growth.
