Jack Dorsey is no longer Twitter’s CEO — by choice, this time

Jack Dorsey is no longer the CEO of Twitter. Starting today, that title goes to Parag Agrawal, formerly the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Dorsey explained the reasoning for his departure in an email sent to employees and later shared on Twitter: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitterpic.twitter.com/G5tUkSSxkl — jack⚡️ (@jack)November 29, 2021 Agrawal provided his own response: Deep gratitude for@jackand our entire team, and so much excitement for the future....

2 min · 418 words · Arthur Gutierrez

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter exit is a milestone in social media’s midlife crisis

When Jack Dorsey made thesudden public announcementthat he had quit as CEO of Twitter, it was only ever going to have happened in one place – Twitter itself. It reminded me very much of Elon Musk’s entertainingtweet adventures, as Dorsey tossed hisresignation letteronto the social media platform that he co-founded. You could imagine him sitting back to soak up the theatre of reaction and speculation that unfolded. This isn’t Dorsey’s first resignation letter to Twitter – he wasforced outof the CEO chair in 2008 only to return as executive chairman three years later – and no one can say for sure if it will be the last....

5 min · 1056 words · Daniel Fox

Jack Riley: 5 tips for using social media in print journalism

On TuesdayJack Riley, Head of Digital Audience and Content Development for British newspapersThe Independentand its sister paper the I, lead a discussion on how traditional print journalism can embrace social media at the Spring 2011 meeting of theDigital Editors Network. Here are Jack’s five tips on how to make newspapers social. Share and share-a-like Jack began by focusing on the importance of allowing readers to share news content. The Independent recently started adding Facebook ‘send’ buttons to all its online articles alongside its ‘recommend’ buttons....

4 min · 674 words · Erica Haynes

Jaguar Land Rover shutters two factories over worldwide chip shortages

British automaker Jaguar Land Rover is temporarily shuttering two of its main factories over chip shortages that are plaguing much of the automotive industry. JLR said there is going to be a limited period of closure at its Halewood and Castle Bromwich plants in the UK, from Monday,BBC reports. Since the outbreak of coronavirus, all kinds of tech manufacturers have been affected by silicon chip shortages which have come as a knock-on effect of factory closures in Asia....

2 min · 290 words · Oscar Coleman

Jailbreaking helped shape the iPhone’s past, but what about its future?

Since the earliest days of the iPhone, there have been a segment of users that are not content with running their phones by Apple’s rules. By and large, these users love the hardware and software of the iPhone for the obvious care and attention given over to their design. What they’re not as pleased with is the closed ecosystem that Apple has created to block the installation and use of applications outside of its own App Store and the limited amount of control over settings and appearance given by iOS....

13 min · 2717 words · Alisha Swanson
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