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Facebook and Ubisoft: Your governance sucks
The Good Game! Foxconn is sad, Amazon's defective, and Michigan's 40 mile stretch of death
Big Bag of Biz Nuggets! Pumpkin Spice wars, can't spell "Facebook sucks" without "Facebook", and THREE GREASY NICKELS
Eversource: Where Governance Meets Your Real Life (a fact-based rant)
Robot dolphins, Papa Johns hires, and Google beats the pandemic from home
Matt answers Professor Galloway's questions like a BOSS
ESG scores diversity... which means... something...
Facebook gets diverse... and vague...
FB Free Tuesday: The Corporate China Syndrome, Uncle Jeff Bezos's Prime Payday, Red Bull is racist
Terrestrial Radio Monday: The data control war, China, Tiktok, COVID, virtue signalling, and CEO racists
The Good Game! ESG is taking off! ESG needs better labels! The Green New Deal! Climate resistant apples!
Is China basically a fun hypocritical misunderstanding with massive global consequences? Yes!
Sad sack Facebook headlines of the week! Plus, big data is a big mess...
Facebook's unintentional "white politicians' lives matter"
The TikTokalypse is upon us!! Good thing we have the next best autocrat waiting - Snap!
Racist sports teams, racist sports media - all for the win!
The Good Game! Big Meat carbon taxes? The Dow posts quarter record?
The social media problem: it makes Parks and Rec real
"ESG food" is a Starbucks plant-based sausage, plus the "defund travel" moment
Amazon and Microsoft's facial recognition confusion! Albertson's IPOs!
Big Bag of Biz Nuggets! Wars! Big Data! Dystopia! It's all here!
The Good Game! Good news or bad: Facebook integrity, Siri's police recording, tech and child abuse!
The Supreme Court makes LGBTQ discrimination illegal, and the CEOs weigh in!
Snap's Evan Spiegel thinks releasing diversity data gives the wrong impression and other diversity corporate performance art!
Headline roundup: Facebook, Fox News, CEO haircuts, and white guys get away with stuff!
Dick's Sporting Goods' CEO Ed Stack sacrificed his salary for the good of coronavirus... only to get 6X the options award at the bottom of the market! Sacrifice is hard!! Also, we invent a new indicator: ever wonder what the percentage of people of color in the workforce is compared to pictures of people of color in corporate reports??
Coronavirus is still happening, and corporates are reopening! Does the globe reset its priorities or go back to status quo big box consumerism?
The data or corporate America and race... is not so good
Citigroup, Google, Amazon, and Softbank headline the racial injustice hypocrites of the moment! You want to test for real progress? Check your board's white nominating committee!
Facebook employees virtually walk out, but this is the cost of fake public autocracy!
The corporate response of hope-y change-y we-should-all-come-together-ness in the wake of the George Floyd murder and protests was not only obvious, it's a wonder oil slick of rhetoric! How BlackRock - who routinely votes "no" on diversity proxies, and Nike, who routinely votes "yes" to slick ads without hiring, you know, black people themselves, have a lot in common.
Week of Nugs! Facebook has no meetings Wednesdays because it cares!
Trump threatens... on Twitter... to shut down... Twitter? Turns out Jack Dorsey may be the only adult in the social media room, which is too bad since Professor Galloway and Elliot Management seem to hate Africa so much that Dorsey may not last long...
Twitter apologizes for... President Trump? Well, it's certainly easier than taking him off the platform...
J&J agrees not to give cancer to babies anymore! EasyJet gives away your data! Transcard is sorry you SAW its executive be racist! Unbroken Designs CEO is sorry her white privilege made HER racist! Apologies (and racism) abound on social media!
The market got deepfaked by Moderna's vaccine announcements! Nestle buys into the pandemic non-meat pivot! Doordash deepfakes its own sales!
Twitter and Square opened the floodgates - work from home forever if you want! Microsoft says... it's maybe not a great idea? Especially if you're an ibanker?
Buffett says YES to diversity... somewhere else! BlackRock says YES to climate... just not in voting!
Stories from the Big Bag of Biz Nuggets: big data has a government allergy, but it also tastes so good! Google lost some laptops, Facebook lost some governance, Amazon is Amazon...
Facebook admits its moderators are expensive humans with PTSD, that it can't police its content, and that its "Supreme Court" is probably going to be meaningless... dual class rules!
Katzenberg blames all - and we mean ALL - of Quibi's problems on coronavirus (not a stupid business model). But while we're at it, chicken finds a niche in the virus, Frontier wants to trust you (we suggest for $89 they can waive trust), and Trump himself feels like that stupid virus is undermining his message to ignore the virus...
A case study in why governance matters, COVID-19 policy style, through the eyes of Elon Musk and Tesla's reopening drama.
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