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The timing and audacity of the WhatsApp changes may be signals that Facebook believes its time of explosive revenue growth in the U.S. is drawing to a close. Facebook revenues in India, where WhatsApp is dominant, have skyrocketed in recent years, while its user base in the U.S. and Canada has begun to decline. Facebook claims that it needed to update terms only so that it could store messages on behalf of businesses, which is also a signal that the company will prioritize WhatsApp’s B2B relationships. It most certainly indicates that Facebook intends to focus its future efforts on audiences abroad, where it enjoys a draconian capture of all things internet in developing markets. In some of these markets, there aren’t any choices but to use Facebook if you want to get online. … [Read more...] about WhatsApp and Facebook’s ultimatum to users reveals a privacy disaster

The idea is that you can program the individual keys on these peripheral devices to replicate multistep keystrokes, launch apps, and do all sorts of other cool tricks that might otherwise take you a handful of clicks or some finger gymnastics to pull off. I do a fair amount of video and podcast production at my day job, and having something like the TourBox or Razer peripheral that translates a bunch of complicated keyboard shortcuts into individual, tactile hardware buttons is a godsend. … [Read more...] about 7 daily productivity hacks to help you work smarter in 2021

But this upheaval was far from unexpected. The pandemic and ensuing economic turmoil of 2020 merely exacerbated a caregiving and childcare crisis that many experts say was already on the verge of boiling over, even if it has often been given short shrift by politicians and the media. “I actually think we’ve been in a child care crisis for a long time,” economist Betsey Stevenson told Politico in July. “The pandemic has just pulled the lid off it, so we’re all staring at that crisis right now.” … [Read more...] about We’re in the midst of a caregiving crisis. Here’s how Biden may address it

Do employees understand company policies? Not always, and this is why it’s important for companies to be prepared, warns Joey Price, founder of Jumpstart:HR, a Baltimore consultancy for small businesses and startups. Employee handbooks need to outline what is and is not allowed in the workplace and beyond. A business doesn’t have to list “no rioting” among its rules to fire a person for doing exactly that. … [Read more...] about Can you fire an employee who was a U.S. Capitol rioter? In a word, yes

Reddit general manager Erik Martin says that all of the site’s innovations come from following the community. “We’re paving footpaths. We’re seeing where people are walking and where the grass is getting trampled and trying to make that more robust, and that’s the same whether it’s visual, or moderation policy, or on the coding level,” Martin explains. He gives the example of the growth of Reddit’s sports sections. The staff saw that users were posting links to live streams of sporting events, and so the engineers wanted to make the experience of putting up those live streams easier. … [Read more...] about IAmA Community-Focused Innovator: The Secret To Reddit’s Success