Uber's president is the latest exec to quit; “Beast" is a beauty at the box office, and more news.
Lorraine K. Lee
Corporate Keynote Speaker & Trainer | LinkedIn Learning, Stanford CSP Instructor | Ex-Founding Editor at LinkedIn, Prezi | Author of Unforgettable Presence: Get Seen, Gain Influence, and Catapult Your Career (Wiley 2025)
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Another one bites the dust: Uber president Jeff Jones is leaving after less than a year. The former Target CMO’s departure is “directly related” to the multiple recent management and PR crises at the company. “It is now clear ... that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber, and I can no longer continue as president of the ride sharing business,” Jones said in a statement.
Facebook is hiring a retail manager to sell at least four unannounced consumer hardware products. The secretive "Building 8" unit is working on projects ranging from brain-scanning tech to AR. It could all be revealed as soon as April during Facebook’s F8 conference.
“Beauty and the Beast” broke a bunch of records: The biggest box office opening in March brought in roughly $350 million worldwide this weekend. It’s the seventh biggest opening weekend of all time, and the second biggest non-summer opener (behind “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”). It’s also the biggest weekend open ever for a film not rated PG-13.
It’s pays to be CEO — literally: Stock market gains and healthy corporate profits helped deliver sizable pay raises to many American CEOs in 2016. The median pay for CEOs at the biggest 104 American companies rose 6.8% up to $11.5 million.
Musical pioneer Chuck Berry died on Saturday in Missouri. Berry, who helped chart the course of rock ’n’ roll through “indelible guitar licks, brash self-confidence and memorable songs about cars, girls and wild dance parties,” was 90 years old.
Judge Neil Gorsuch will attend his first Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Monday. Trump’s nominee will have to answer questions “about his judicial philosophy and long record of rules from the bench.” Here’s what to expect.
Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator has created an AI track. Startups that can help build "robot factories" will get a few special perks along the way, such as office hours with machine learning experts
Cover Art: Emma Watson attends UK launch event for 'Beauty And The Beast' at Spencer House on February 23, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage )
Catering Assistant at 1968
7 年Beautiful picture
Caregiver at Always Best Care Senior Services
7 年nice recap martha
BI Developer
7 年I'm not sure I'd appreciate hearing a voice add from Google Home about Beauty and the Beast movie! Does Alexa stoop to that level? Uber is just an uber-sad place to work at. If Facebook doesn't give me a workable neural interface by 2022, I'll be concerned.
Administrator at LearnKey, Inc.
7 年??