Facebookmay have changed its corporate nameto Meta Platforms, but that won’t end its troubles – nor efforts to rein in the social media company’s business practices. Lawmakers are ponderingnew ways to regulate Facebook, whose CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in 2019 that hewelcomed new “rules governing the internet.” With that in mind, we asked three experts on social media, technology policy, and global business to offer one specific action the government could take about Meta’s Facebook service....

Ecommerce was already a fast-growing industry at the beginning of 2020. Now it’s experiencing an unprecedented boom as billions of shoppers seek to replace their physical shopping carts with virtual ones. What’s more, customer loyalty has been uprooted and is now up for grabs. Astudyby McKinsey & Company found that consumer behaviors have changed drastically across the globe with extremely high numbers of consumers having tried new shopping behaviors, including purchasing products from new brands, in the past few months....

3 productivity tips on working from home — straight from a distraction expert Technology is the venom and the antidote Understand why you get distracted “Technology didn’t invent distraction,” Eyal tells me. “The reason we procrastinate is not because of the things around us. The philosopher Plato was talking about distractions 2,500 years before the iPhone.” To Eyal, the problem is simple. “The root cause of distraction is our desire to escape discomfort,” he says....

You started with an idea. With hard work and a little luck, you secured your first round of funding and hired a few people. Fast forward a few years — you have your product, maybe some customers — you’ll inevitably ask yourself, “Is this working? Is now the time to go all-in and scale up my sales and marketing? Or do I need to pivot?” This is a question many founders run into early in their company’s life....

2022 is shaping up to be the best year to buy a new laptop in recent memory. Although marketing departments would like you to think that each yearly product launch brings massive upgrades, the truth is that obvious performance jumps only arrive a few times a decade, and it’s even rarer for these performance gains to coincide among several manufacturers. But if product announcements at CES 2022 and other recent events are anything to go by, this year is shaping up to have some of the most interesting lineup of new laptop hardware in recent memory....