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The longtime chief operating officer of Facebook’s parent company, Ms. Sandberg said it was “time for her to write the next chapter of my life.”

In many ways, the Great Digital Acceleration is, in fact, the Great Social Acceleration. There are now more than 4.5 billion social media users globally, and almost 500 million users have joined in the last 12 months alone. Messaging, the new social darling, is also surging–80% of time on mobile devices is now spent on…

While ecommerce giant Amazon has an eye on expanding its cashierless retail experience into travel and entertainment, another retail titan, Dollar General, is turning its attention to self-checkout. In a recent Q1 2022 earnings call, COO Jeff Owen said Dollar General has launched a pilot of self-checkout-only stores and plans to test this concept at…

California-based RPA vps and creative directors Yama Rahyar and Bang Pham show that embracing differences while working toward shared beliefs can be a major part of what makes a partnership click. Their advertising origin stories couldn’t be more different. For Pham, “It all started with a typeface: Futura Bold Oblique. As an art history undergrad,…

The brand’s latest campaign is offering fans licenses to become ordained ministers.

Since six Jurassic Park films haven’t convinced us of the folly of introducing dinosaurs into our modern era, Jeep’s latest ads embrace the chaos and give dinosaur pets a ride. A 60-second ad shows the owner of a new Jeep Wrangler 4xe (with a John Hammond bug-in-amber shift knob) coming across a freshly hatched Carnotaurus…

At the start of trading June 9, Facebook parent Meta will be listed on the Nasdaq exchange as Meta, replacing FB, which it had used since then-Facebook’s initial public offering in May 2012. Roundhill Investments, which had been using the Meta ticker for its Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF (exchange-traded fund), relinquished the symbol in January….

The Vox Media Union’s contract expires at midnight on June 13. The union is seeking cost-of-living raises and affordable benefits.

The Land of the Rising Pin? Pinterest ads are now available for all businesses in Japan, making the country its 31st ads market and its third in the Asia-Pacific region, following Australia and New Zealand. The platform’s partnership with Shopify was also extended to Japan, giving merchants there the ability to add product catalogs to…

When The Distillery Project head of production Nik Traxler was growing up, he wanted to be a roller coaster engineer and design the fastest, most thrilling ride to ever exist. He gave up on that dream after barely passing high school calculus and set his sights on a career in law, rethinking that goal after…