Suhani Jain

Salesforce co-CEO Taylor to leave as Benioff takes sole charge

Salesforce Inc announced on Wednesday that co-CEO Bret Taylor will step down from the position in January and also that co-founder Marc Benioff will take over as sole CEO.

Investors simply brushed off the annual profit increase, sending the company’s shares down the pit by 7 percent in extended trading.

According to Steve Koenig, managing director at SMBC Nikko Securities, investors likely assumed Taylor’s appointment was the start of a long tenure as Salesforce’s operational CEO.

“His departure raises questions about why he’s leaving and how operational leadership will be divided and delegated,” he added.
Source: thestar.com.my

Taylor became the co-CEO in November 2021 and priorly served as a chief operating officer (COO) and chief product officer (CPO) of Salesforce company.

He was a major contributor behind Salesforce’s 27.7 billion USD workspace messaging platform takeover i.e. Slack Technologies.

“After a lot of reflection, I’ve decided to return to my entrepreneurial roots,” Taylor said.
Source: thestar.com.my

Benioff said that it is “bittersweet” that Taylor has decided to step down as his Co-CEO. “Taylor made his mark on Salesforce as an incredible technologist, leader and friend to us all. Bret founded two incredible companies so it’s understandable why he wants to return to his entrepreneurial roots.”
Source: latestly.com

Taylor, a co-creator of Alphabet Inc’s Google Maps, is also credited with developing Meta Platform Inc unit Facebook’s “like” button while serving as the social media giant’s (CTO) chief technology officer.

The firm based in San Francisco expects yearly adjusted profit per share to range between $4.92 and $4.94, up from $4.71 to $4.73 previously forecast.

According to Refinitiv IBES data, earnings for the quarter that ended Oct. 31 was 7.84 billion USD, compared to an average expectation of the analyst of 7.82 billion USD.

Salesforce has attracted customers with a broad portfolio that comprises its Customer 360 platform and messenger app Slack at such a time when digital transformation has become a priority, even as businesses it is said to be prepared for a major economic turndown.

The firm’s income for the current quarter is expected to range somewhere around 7.93 billion USD to 8.03 billion USD.

It earned 1.40 USD per share on an adjusted basis in the third quarter, particularly in comparison to the $1.21 expected.

Suhani Jain

I am a student pursuing my bachelor’s in information technology. I have a interest in writing so, I am working a freelance content writer because I enjoy writing. I also write poetries. I believe in the quote by anne frank “paper has more patience than person

Spotify Wrapped 2022: When it’s coming?

Spotify released its 2022 Wrapped recaps on Wednesday, the yearly digital journey that digs through your tastes in music for the year.

Wrapped this year includes new features such as your Myers-Briggs-style “listening” personality type and a tracker that monitors how your musical mood changes throughout the day. Wrapped, as usual, summarises your top artists, genres, songs, and podcasts, as well as overall minutes, listened on Spotify.

It is a popular feature on the streaming service and the centerpiece of a huge marketing campaign. Spotify is the world’s largest music streaming service by the number of users, so its annual data recap is one way to gauge global listening habits.

Wrapped recaps for this year include:

• Your Listening Personality: Users are classified into one of 16 music personalities, such as the Deep Diver, Replayer, Adventurer, or Fanclubber, based on how they listen.

• Audio Day: A step-by-step look at just how your music habits change during the day, with Spotify identifying your mood for the morning, day, and night. My morning mood is apparently “somber friendly,” whatever that is.

• Your Artist Messages: Following up on a feature introduced last year, Spotify is incorporating video cameos from the biggest artists into recaps. Last year, Spotify asked over 100 artists to record a thank-you notification for their fans. This year, over 40,000 people took part. If one or more of your top artists recorded a cameo, you might see one or more in your Wrapped feed.

Wrapped “creator” perceptions for artists and podcasters on Spotify are individualized microsites that delve into just how their fans listened to their music over the year.

This year, all of the ways of sharing your Wrapped on social networks have returned, as have new social cards to share on WhatsApp and Line. Snapchat also offers a personalized lens based on your Listening Personality.

How to watch your Wrapped recap?

Wrapped experiences are only available in the Spotify mobile app for Android and Apple iPhones and iPads. Just ensure you have the most recent version of the Spotify app, which is 8.7.78.

The app will include banners on the Home, Search, and Library tabs, in addition to a full “Your 2022 in Review” shelf on the Home tab. You can also search for “2022 Wrapped” in the Spotify app.

Once you’re on your Apple or Android device, simply visit this website, which will launch your Wrapped history in the app.

If you’re still unable to locate your Wrapped, it’s possible that you haven’t used Spotify enough just to generate enough data to create a personalized recap. To be eligible for Wrapped, users must stream at least about 30 tracks for a little more than 30 seconds and at least five artists between January 1 and early November.

Suhani Jain

Elon Musk claims Apple has threatened to remove the Twitter app

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Elon Musk went on a rant against Apple, Twitter’s top advertiser, on Monday after claiming that the company threatened to remove the social media network from its App Store without any clarification and had pretty much-stopped marketing on Twitter.

The rant highlighted the enormous power that Apple, the world’s biggest firm, possesses over the fate of the world’s richest man’s Twitter gamble. The rant also hinted at Apple’s potential role as a check on Musk’s chaotic reign at Facebook; Apple has previously annulled App Store permissions from companies that violated its security protocols or supported violence and other troublesome content.

If Twitter is removed from the App Store, new users will be unable to install the app on their iPhones and iPads, and current users will be unable to access updates. The accused threat tends to add to the marketer pressure, staff departures, and regulatory scrutiny that Musk is facing as he pursues to overhaul years of Twitter guidelines and account expulsions in his quest to promote “free speech.”

Under a document analysed by The Washington Post that was prepared from internal Twitter data, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter in the first quarter, paying 48 USD million on advertisements on the social network. That quarter, Apple’s spending accounted for much more than 4 per cent of Twitter’s revenue.

Elon Musk attempted to pressurize the firm and CEO Tim Cook in several tweets for halting spending during the holiday shopping season.

Requests for comment were not returned by Apple. Musk’s tweets sought to rekindle long-standing concerns and political scrutiny about Apple’s market dominance. He posted a link to a 2020 parody video made by Apple for Epic Games criticising the App Store as a “monopoly.”

The video is a parody of Apple’s famous “1984” Super Bowl commercial, which Epic, the creator of the Fortnite video game, launched after it was removed from Apple’s store for violating its in-app payment rules. He also asked his and over 119 million followers to vote on whether Apple should publish all censorship acts it has carried out that affect its customers.

“Did you know Apple puts a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through their App Store?,” Musk tweeted, with the caption “Spoiler alert.”
Musk hinted in a tweet that he may go to war with Apple.
Source: washingtonpost.com

“This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead,” Musk said later.
Source: news18.com

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Samsung Galaxy S23 series may feature a next-gen Qualcomm fingerprint scanner

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The Galaxy S23, Samsung’s flagship smartphone series, is expected to feature Qualcomm’s 3rd Generation ultrasonic fingerprint scanner.

The Galaxy S10 became the first Samsung phone to include an ultrasonic fingerprint reader beneath the display. However, its performance was inconsistent. Qualcomm’s second-generation ultrasonic fingerprint sensor was included in the Galaxy S21. It appears that Samsung’s next-generation rising smartphone will include an even improved fingerprint reader.

The Galaxy S23, according to rumours, will include Qualcomm’s 3rd Generation ultrasonic fingerprint reader. However, we’re not sure whether it’s the same 3D Sonic Max sensor Qualcomm introduced earlier this year or a completely new fingerprint scanner. We’re in for a treat if it’s the 3D Sonic Max, which is the world’s largest and most advanced fingerprint reader.

The Qualcomm 3D Sonic Max scanner has a surface area of 20mm x 30mm, which is nearly 10 times larger than the 3-dimensional Sonic Gen 2 8mm x 8mm scanner utilized in the Galaxy S21 Ultra and Galaxy S22 Ultra. It’s already in the iQOO 9 Pro as well as the Vivo X80 Pro.

It has five times the accuracy of the 3-dimensional Sonic Gen 2 and can cater to two fingers at the same time for added security. It even claims to support one-tap fingerprint registration, which greatly simplifies the procedure of registering fingerprints.

The Galaxy S23 series is also expected to include an E6 LTPO 3.0 Super AMOLED display with 2,200 nits of peak brightness, a 200 MP ISOCELL HP2 camera sensor S23 Ultra only, a Snapdragon 8 Generation 2 processor, LPDDR5X RAM, Wi-Fi 7, UFS 4.0 storage and urgent or emergency messaging through the use of satellite communication.

All eyes are now on the release of Samsung’s next flagship smartphone. The Galaxy S23 series has already been the subject of numerous rumours and reports. The launch is already expected to take place in early 2023. A new report now offers some additional information.

According to reports, Samsung will hold a complete Unpacked event for the Galaxy S23 release in San Francisco. It’d be the first live event as they were halted due to the global epidemic.

Suhani Jain

HP Joins Tech Layoffs Season, Plans To Fire 6,000 Employees

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Hewlett-Packard aka HP, the world’s leading manufacturing company of laptops and electronic devices, decided to join the huge list of tech companies that have officially confirmed mass layoffs on Tuesday.

During its earnings report, the company stated that it expected to cut 6,000 job positions by the end of the fiscal year 2025, accounting for 12 per cent of its total worldwide workforce.

“The company expects to reduce gross global headcount by approximately 4,000-6,000 employees. These actions are expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2025,” the company said in its fiscal 2022 full-year report.
Source: wionews.com

the firm would lay off some of its almost 50,000 present employees, bit by bit over the ensuing years to save 1.4 billion USD. After HP reported reduced PC and laptop sales, the decision was made.

During the pandemic, both groups’ sales increased significantly, but since offices and schools have opened, they have levelled off.

as per the experts, this choice could have been made worse by the unfortunate economical circumstances brought on by the ongoing recession and extremely high inflation.

Due to the confluence of the aforementioned factors, the PC manufacturer predicts a lower revenue for the first quarter in its report.

“Many of the recent challenges we have seen in FY’22 will likely continue into FY’23,” said Marie Myers, chief financial officer.
Source: wionews.com

In addition, HP reported an 11 per cent decrease in Q4 sales, which came in at 14.8 billion USD, in comparison with the same quarter in 2017.

The announcement made by HP as speaking of layoffs comes as many other big tech firms, such as Amazon, Meta, and Twitter, have decreased their workforces, majorly as a result of a global recession.

In the first week after Elon Musk took control of the microblogging site, Meta fired around 11,000 people from its staff while Twitter let go of half of its workforce. Amazon, which is owned by, Jeff Bezos, has declared that it will be dismissing 10,000 of its workers.

According to various sources on Tuesday, 10,000 or 6 per cent of the poor-performing employees of Alphabet Inc., the parent firm of Google, would be dismissed.

Suhani Jain

Elon Musk Blames ‘Activists’ for His Twitter Moderation Council Lie

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Elon Musk is trying to clarify why he allowed Donald Trump, as well as others back onto Twitter social media platform despite promising that the decision would be made by a content moderation council comprised of people with “widely diverse viewpoints”.

On Tuesday, in a tweet, he stated the council was a part of the agreement he formed with an unnamed large group of political/social activist groups, indicating it was their fault.

“A large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us of advertising revenue if I agreed to this condition,” he said in a tweet. “They broke the deal.” He added.
Source: business-standard.com

Musk claims he made a deal with those groups to keep them from destroying Twitter’s advertising revenue, claiming that those groups “broke the deal,” so he no longer has to defend the council.

Musk unbanned Jordan Peterson, Kathy Griffin, and The Babylon Bee earlier this month prior to actually running a poll asking his fans if people would want to see Donald Trump returned on the platform, tweeting “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” which interprets to “the voices of the people is the voice of God.”

The following day, without mentioning the council, Elon Musk declared that Donald Trump would be reinstated based on the poll data even though the previous president and present presidential candidate has yet to resume tweeting.

It’s certainly not the first time Elon Musk has called out activists. He wrote on Twitter earlier this month that activist groups were pressuring advertisers in an attempt to obliterate free speech in America. In the meantime, The Verge has obtained documents from one of the three main advertising agencies advising clients to discontinue running campaigns on the platform.

Omnicom Media Group and others cited adherence, imitation, a lack of restraint, and how the mass layoffs will highly impact the company’s ability to operate, rather than political or social activist pressure.

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