Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday.
- $4. More than a dozen former Facebook staffers spoke to CNBC, and put much of the blame on Facebook's biannual peer-review system, where employees are "stack-ranked" and assigned a grade by management.
- $4. The investigation found data sold to firms like credit checkers can end up on the black market.
- $4. Every year Zuckerberg poses himself a challenge, and this year he pledged to talk with "leaders, experts, and people in our community from different fields," every few weeks.
- $4. Twice Cook repeated the phrase "it just works" - one of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs' mantras.
- $4. Khosrowshahi told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Tuesday that he and investors would be "disappointed" if there was no IPO but that "the company would be just fine."
- $4. Among other things it showed off "Interpreter mode," letting people talk to each other in different language while the virtual assistant translates.
- $4. Dubbed "One Westside," the offices will take up part of what is today the Westside Pavilion mall.
- $4. In December 2018 alone, the game reportedly made just under $70 million on Apple devices.
- $4. "Overwatch" is one of the most successful esports titles in the world, with the Overwatch League and other events supporting more than 200 professional players.
- $4. Facebook allowed political ads for far-right British political group Britain First to run on its platform in December, which ran for several days in late December.
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