Facebook’s VP of messaging on why the company split off Messenger into a self-contained experience—and what the future holds.
With 1.5 billion monthly active users, Facebook has proven that it knows how to scale up a web business at least as well as any other company on the planet. But its sheer overwhelming enormity has a tendency to set the bar incredibly high for anything else it does.
Is anyone making headway on recruiting and retaining more women? Behind the scenes at the world’s largest conference for women in tech.
“This is the best room in the world!” Hilary Mason, the founder of data and machine learning R&D group Fast Forward Labs, yells enthusiastically as she walks on stage at the Anita Borg Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing.
She’s facing a block of neatly lined chairs that stretches the length of more than a football field. Most of those chairs are full, and—remarkably, for a technology conference—most of their occupants (93% of the 12,000 attendees) are women.
A made-in-Baltimore holiday “pop-up shop” will open Friday at the Women’s Exchange in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood, featuring merchandise made by more than 90 city-based businesses.
The idea is to promote buying locally in the city and highlight Baltimore’s diverse maker industries, said…
Faculty at Cal State Long Beach describe industrial design student Nohemi Gonzalez as a passionate, hard-working, and “very gifted student.”
Twenty-three-year-old industrial design student Nohemi Gonzalez was the first American identified as a victim of the horrific attacks on Paris on Friday. Gonzalez, a senior at Cal State Long Beach, was living in the city for the semester as an exchange student at the Strate School of Design. She was dining with fellow Cal State Long Beach students at a Paris restaurant Friday night when she was killed, the Los Angeles Times reports.
British brand Warburtons teams up with Disney for a Muppet-filled Christmas ad.
A crumpet is, by definition, a thick, flat, savory cake with a soft, porous texture, made from a yeast mixture cooked on a griddle and typically eaten toasted with butter. A Muppet, by definition, is a puppet or marionette created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The reality of both these fantastic things is that to experience them is something that goes far beyond words. And just in time for Christmas, Warburtons has brought the two phenomenons together.
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