Monthly Archives: July 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession

Alex Zekoff Contributor Share on Twitter Alex Zekoff is the CEO and co-founder of Thoughtful Automation, an automation-as-a-service platform. With rising interest rates, there’s a new sheriff in town for all companies. It’s called efficiency. Efficiency is now especially important for startups, which are always running fast toward a cliff. When, as a typical startup,…

Spotify’s new personalized playlist will recommend tracks based on what your friends are listening to

Spotify is launching a new personalized playlist called “Friends Mix” to give users a way to discover new tracks based on the Blends they’ve created with with their friends. The streaming service’s Blend tool allows two Spotify users to see where their musical tastes overlap by mixing together their favorite songs to find those they…

Datacenter electricity demands could curtail London housing development

Datacenters might be the lifeblood of the modern digital economy, but for housing developers in some parts of London they could curtail building plans for the next 13 years. According to a report in today’s Financial Times, developers on the western side of the U.K. capital may be prevented from working on larger multi-tenant properties…

Spotify’s Friends Mix throws your pals’ music taste together in one playlist

Spotify is building on its collaborative, friends-oriented features by generating a personalized playlist for you and your pals. Friends Mix is an extension of Blend, the Spotify feature that merges the musical tastes of two users in one shared playlist. Users are also given a Taste Match score with this feature, displaying the percentage of…

Credit Suisse’s plans to scale back investment banking has competitors ‘dancing on their grave’

Hi. I’m Aaron Weinman. Credit Suisse wants to reduce costs at its investment bank. Competing investment bankers smell blood in the water as they circle their Swiss peer’s business. Before we dig into that, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. I stopped by CBS to talk about…

Jeff Bezos toured Buckingham Palace and dined with Tom Cruise on a visit to London, report says

Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez in London this week. Ricky Vigil/Getty Images Jeff Bezos took a tour of Buckingham Place during a visit to London, The Sun reported. The Amazon founder later dined at a Mayfair restaurant with actor Tom Cruise.  Jeff Bezos is worth an estimated $145 billion, according to the Bloomberg…

Trump legal threat against CNN stops short of arguing that his election-fraud claims are true, says only that he ‘subjectively believes’ them

Former President Donald Trump. Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images Trump’s lawyers threatened to sue CNN for saying Trump was “lying” with his election-fraud claims. It did not say his claims were true, saying only that he “subjectively believes” there was fraud. It also used a Webster’s Dictionary’s definition to say Trump was not a liar. In…

Ford’s CEO says carmaker has ‘too many people’ amid reports it plans to cut 8,000 jobs in push to fund EV expansion

Jim Farley poses next to the newly unveiled electric F-150 Lightning, May 2021. JEFF KOWALSKY / Contributor / Getty Ford CEO’s hinted that the auto-giant could cut jobs in order ramp up EV production, per Bloomberg. “We absolutely have too many people in some places,” Jim Farley said in an earnings call. Farley aims to…