♟ Sheryl Sandberg Is Stepping Down as Meta's COO After 14 Years

Plus: Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls, Inside Twitter, Shuffled Jobs and Elon Musk Tweets Dampen Morale, and more…

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Sheryl Sandberg Is Stepping Down as Meta's COO After 14 Years. Meta Platforms Inc.'s Sheryl Sandberg, who became one of the most recognized figures in global business after helping Facebook transform from a startup into a multibillion-dollar advertising powerhouse, is stepping down as chief operating officer. (Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg)

Emily Chang @emilychangtv

I spoke to Sheryl Sandberg with @KurtWagner8 in an exclusive interview: “This was a decision that I did not come to lightly. It really is about how I will spend my time, not how much I believe in the company. I believe in the company as much as I ever did…” 1/2

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Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls. Google announced today that it's combining two of its video-calling apps, Duo and Meet, into a single platform. Pretty soon, there will be only Google Meet, and Google's hoping it can be the one calling app users need for just about everything in… (David Pierce / The Verge)

David Pierce @pierce

Google Duo is dead, kinda, ish? And Google might have a chance to build a hugely successful FaceTime competitor ... if it can get a lot of little things right

theverge.comGoogle is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video callsGoogle continues to clean up its many many messaging apps

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Inside Twitter, Shuffled Jobs and Elon Musk Tweets Dampen Morale. Twitter Inc. employees are enduring the whiplash of public commentary from the social network's future owner, a changeover in leadership and a hiring freeze. On top of all that, some will be assigned new jobs as the company shifts away from its… (Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner @KurtWagner8

NEW: Twitter is shuffling its product team, moving people away from long-term bets (audio spaces, communities, etc.) to other projects bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ @EdLudlow

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Former OpenSea exec arrested and charged with insider trading of NFTs. A top former executive at the highly valued NFT startup OpenSea was arrested Wednesday and charged “with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to commit insider… (Lucas Matney / TechCrunch)

Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington

Former OpenSea exec arrested and charged with insider trading of NFTs tcrn.ch/38EsD3h via @TechCrunch

tcrn.chFormer OpenSea exec arrested and charged with insider trading of NFTs – TechCrunchA top former executive at the highly valued NFT startup OpenSea was arrested Wednesday and charged “with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New Y…

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Video Gaming Got Its First Major Union. Now What?. History is about to take place in Madison, Wisconsin. A group of game developers have gathered in person to await the results of a National Labor Relations Board election that will determine whether the quality assurance workers at Call of Duty… (Megan Farokhmanesh / WIRED)

Megan Farokhmanesh @Megan_Nicolett

it's my ~first~ byline for WIRED, talking about Raven's union and the blueprint it's created. “We're entering a new phase in organizing...And this industry will be organized, one way or another.”

wired.comVideo Gaming Got Its First Major Union. Now What?Raven Software’s vote to unionize its QA team is historic, but getting Activision Blizzard to actually listen will require a lot more work.

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