Global uncertainty has increased amid Covid – mounting innovation

Adobe reported that more than a third of businesses have invested in new technologies to keep up with the growing rhythm of uncertainty. Amid Covid-19, there has been turbulence in workplaces, which has altogether killed the productivity among employees.

Global uncertainty has risen because of the occurrence of unexpected news or events both globally and at work. It has thwarted employees’ productivity from getting things done on time.

A new report issued by Adobe’s Future of Time 2022 claimed that at a workplace, half of the employees are busy discussing news coverage and spend three hours a day. Seventy percent of respondents stated that this is more time than they had spent a year ago. The vast majority assert that this has a direct impact on their productivity.

In addition, the Adobe report has shown how much the global pandemic and conflict have kept everyone on their toes. Their well-being and productivity at work have greatly suffered because of the consistent change. According to the survey plaintiff, today, change has become the new constant.

The endless modifications worried industries all around the globe about not growing and having success amid growing uncertainty. 64% of SMBs are deeply concerned about their future businesses. The rationale is the markets have seen economic and inflation instability as the most crucial cause of mounting uncertainty. 70% of all audiences agree that change is constant in workplaces.

Despite this fact, 70% also reported spending additional hours discussing news and events during the workday. The indulgence destroys their productivity and affects the overall job. 80% of respondent agrees with this survey. While in times of uncertainty, nearly three out of five people find work to be a welcome interference, and they have turned to their workstations for sustenance.

Workstations in which employees call for assistance from their employers are trying to cope with the problem in two ways; the well-being of services and technology. According to the reports, to make it easier and bearable enough, 70% of employers and managers say digital resolutions are creating ease and helping to improve the workplace environment. Supporting managers from time to time enables employees to leave feedback to facilitate the relationship between leader and employee.

In addition, it has come under the inspection that employers who invest in digital solutions such as productivity and collaboration tools are more prone to get creative with their ideas and maintain a balance between work and personal life. 7 in 10 managers have said that to reduce stress, they highly rely on these tools to stay productive and alleviate the stress of completing work when a coworker must take an unexpected leave of absence.

The changes have occurred over the year, and it keeps adapting on a higher scale. SMB leaders are taking more advanced steps to improve healthy relationships within workplaces to keep the momentum in place. Uncertainty is indeed fueling business in new and creative ways.

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Private Text Message Exchange Between Jack Dorsey And Elon Musk Reveal Shocking Findings

A new set of revelations are being put forward to the public. And this time around, it involves Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk.

Dorsey was seen reaching out to Musk, exactly one year before the Twitter takeover deal began. And that’s where he told the world’s richest person how he had full trust in him and wished he make some financial investments in the firm.

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Dorsey who also happens to be the company’s co-founder started off the chat first on March 26 and this was a part of a recent text log that had been filed as a component of Twitter’s case against Elon Musk.

The text spoke about how strongly Dorsey believed that a new app was required and that’s one of the reasons why he left because this current situation wasn’t for any company.

To that, the billionaire was quick to respond and he inquired about what Dorsey felt was lacking or what the firm should appear like. To that, Dorsey says that it needed to be a much more open-sourced protocol. It’s quite similar to the way Signal has behaved. Similarly, Dorsey revealed how Twitter was not the type to benefit from any advertising model. This is the famous model for firms on social media.

Musk was very polite and added that he would be more than willing to help if he could. And Dorsey adds that he worked hard in convincing Twitter’s board to include Musk but they were hesitant. He continued about how the board at Twitter witnessed the billionaire as a huge risk and Dorsey felt that was wrong and in fact, a very backward thought.

On that note, Dorsey felt his time was up and it was time to leave, even though the decision didn’t come easy. During this time period, famous time activist Elliott Management paved the way to become involved in the platform, asking for a series of changes that he felt would assist the firm reach new heights of growth and success.

More details on the high-profile text exchanges are yet to be seen and even messages sent out at a later date weren’t mentioned. Then, more details went on to state how Musk requested Dorsey that he’d like to meet him privately and hence wanted a one-on-one meeting.

Just a few hours after that, the duo spoke to one another and made reference to a call. Dorsey was really happy and couldn’t believe Elon Musk was actually going to go through with it. It was a dream come true and something Dorsey wanted for a while. Hence, this is why the former Twitter CEO got emotional when he figured out it was all possible at last.

Musk always felt he needed encouragement and reassurance from Dorsey and asked if his decision was dumb or not. Later, Musk points to the former CEO how he intends on going private with the platform so that it could be fixed.

He adds that although it’s quite an impossible task as so many fake users are seen on the app and it makes things look terrible, he needed to make it private so that a proper restructuring was possible. And Jack did agree to that.

Jack Dorsey knew that such major changes done to any public firm wouldn’t be possible and so the best way forward was privatization.

Seeing these conversations pop up during the filing of the case in the court of law is very interesting. Hence, experts are waiting to see what role they can play in the final pending decision as the trial begins in October.

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by Dr. Hura Anwar via Digital Information World

YouTube Will Help Users Gain Insight On Medical Disorders By Sharing Patients’ Personal Stories

When it comes to acquiring knowledge on health conditions, people love turning to the internet for help. Be it a minor inconvenience or a serious disorder, everyone is out to get information that’s reliable and accurate.

On Wednesday, YouTube was seen making an announcement of plans to help users gain more insight into serious disorders. And they intend on doing that by providing a first-hand perspective, straight from patients who have suffered from such conditions. After all, who better to give input than this?

The rollout is all set to begin this week and it will come under the section that’s named Personal Stories. After adding queries related to your health in the search results, people will see a new panel pop up in regards to similar health conditions across the app. This will comprise videos of those people who were diagnosed with the same condition.

YouTube went on to shed light on how so many people arrive on this platform to nail the understanding linked to complex matters on the theme of health like human biology or complex conditions.

Some of the app’s findings saw how users tend to ask queries that are human-centric. This includes answers to queries like how they would be able to survive something like this or how are people living in this way. And that’s why a firsthand experience is definitely what they require as satisfactory responses.

Speaking at the launch, YouTube shed more like on how the section reserved for Personal Stories will also feature tales of cancer survivors and those battling or have battled depression and anxiety. With time, the firm will plan on expanding the ordeal so as to cover various topics and areas outside the US.

Meanwhile, content that would be declared as eligible in this respect must be those that focus on authentic experiences of living through either mental or physical disorders.

Content that’s promotional isn’t eligible for the functionality. So as you can see, YouTube has set up a series of stringent guidelines that it wants people to follow so as to enable the spread of correct information and prevent misinformation rates.

This functionality isn’t meant for those seeking medical advice. Yet, we’re seeing YouTube be criticized immensely as health misinformation rates on the app are skyrocketing.

During the start of the year, around 80 different fact-checkers were seen writing to the app about keeping strict control on videos promoting incorrect information about the pandemic.

As you can imagine, releasing another venture related to health means criticism is bound to come the app’s way. For it to be successful, YouTube will need to be transparent about how it plans to moderate such content being presented.

The last thing anyone wants is to see people suffering from disorders be provided with advice that’s misleading or fake. So keeping a check or moderating such situations is going to be a huge challenge.

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Videos On Twitter Will Appear Like TikTok As App Switches To Full-Screen Immersive Content

Another day means another chance for a leading digital app to switch over and take inspiration from TikTok. And we can’t blame them because that’s how popular the platform has become.

The recent news is linked to Twitter making changes to its video content and that allows for a more immersive style to be adopted. Think along the lines of full-screen immersive video players that we see with TikTok for viewing different clips.

And embracing this style means videos will look just like they do on the archrival app.

The news was confirmed by the company on Thursday and there is also talk about it borrowing another swipe-up feature through which users can scroll across more video content on Twitter.

This new update is going to make viewing videos through the app a much more familiar experience. And it’s just like what we see when we go through Reels on Instagram or TikTok.

For now, we know that the changes are restricted to Twitter’s iOS users but the company’s similar update would be arriving in time for Android in a few weeks.

Twitter has strongly gone public with the promotion of content featuring live videos across various parts of the platform. This change is said to be one that belongs to the company’s aggressive decision to provide more videos to fans of the app. However, it’s a risk as some might think of the change as one that’s a little controversial.

The firm says users can move back and forth to their original tweet when they like with the help of the back arrow that’s found on the top left-hand side of a clip. On the other hand, there is also talk about the app testing a new change that drives people to view more videos on the app.

This arises in the form of a new test for video recommendations and can be found on the app’s Explore page. All of these suggestions would be up for grabs to users in different countries that use Twitter in the English language through either iOS or Android.

As you can imagine, this isn’t the first time that we’re heard about such news taking center stage in terms of TikTok’s user interface being copied. But we do hope the risk proves to be in the app’s best interest and doesn’t backfire.

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Popular Game Streaming Service Stadia Comes To An End As Google Announces Shut Down

The last time we heard about the launch of Stadia was nearly 2.5 years ago. This is when the popular game streaming service was launched. But now, Google has opted to pull the plug on the venture, marking the official end.

Therefore, subscribers won’t be having access to the library after January of 2023 because it’s shutting down forever. As mentioned in a recent blog post of the firm, Google says it hopes to have all of its refunds for consumers done and dusted with by this time too.

In case you happen to be following closely, Google is yet to be acknowledging the struggles of the past regarding the project. We just saw a tweet in July of this year where it answered curious users’ queries on if the app was shutting down or not. And they didn’t quite say yes or no but spoke about how they’re keen on getting the best games for the platform.

They continued to carry out trials for months to create their audience and they did a great job, we believe.

Now, Google has shifted gears and is speaking about some rather interesting reasons as to why it has come to the decision. According to them, Stadia may have had strong support or foundation but it just didn’t pick up the pace as expected with users. So now, they’re winding down the service as stated in the post.

The firm was seen putting out a type of silver lining in its infrastructure and we saw game streaming of a low latency arise. Moreover, we’re also seeing some great chances to put forward this technology through other leading apps like Google’s YouTube, Play Store, and even AR ventures.

There is a great chance seen for the industry’s partners to make use of this type of technology and build on the future of gaming. Google adds how it’s always been committed to games and will surely invest more in the future. Be it tools, platforms, or technology- they’re going to use help from developers to make things better and arise with a bang.

Google adds that the service got plenty of great reviews overall. And the company was facing a huge battle in terms of its surrounding competition through the likes of Microsoft and even Sony, and Luna as well. The latter belongs to Amazon. But in February of last year, we saw a shutdown occur of its studio for internal development.

But things just didn’t do well in Stadia making the mark it needed to succeed in the competitive market and that’s why the tech giant isn’t keen on making more investments. As far as the employees who used to work there, well, they’re going to be shifted to several other positions around the firm. And we think that’s great as compared to laying them off as a whole. With times of economic uncertainty, that would be really bad for such individuals.

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Meta Will Make History As It Plans Hiring Freeze, Reduced Headcount, And Team Reorganization For Facebook

Facebook’s famous parent firm, Meta is planning a series of changes that will reportedly make history for the app. This includes a freeze in the hiring process, a complete reorganization of teams, and lowered headcount.

The news comes to us thanks to Bloomberg who mentioned how the social media firm is unleashing a series of warnings to all workers about a downsize and a complete reorganization. They will stop hiring as confirmed by the company’s CEO via an internal call.

Meta which is the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram appears to be on a mission to cut budgets seen around most teams. And it’s interesting how this particular announcement arises just 7 days after the WSJ said Facebook's employees were told to find other roles in the corporation as it undergoes the process of downsizing.

As mentioned in this particular report, workers seen on this 30-day list were left with no choice but to search for a new role or else face the drawback of being terminated.

This is the firm’s first huge cut in budget ever since Facebook was founded. And hence it appears to be a huge end to the era observed during the peak growth of social media.

For a while now, Mark Zuckerberg has been pointing fingers at how the current economic uncertainty issue has been the major driving factor for such decisions. They say the cuts are not a personal choice but one made in line with the current situation.

By now, they hoped the market would be stable and while many experts feel it has become more stable now, Meta is being very cautious on what to do next. They’re on the rise to making conservative decisions and Zuckerberg reiterated that during his recent question and answer session, as revealed by Bloomberg.

During the early part of this year, Meta elaborated more on its initial decline in revenue from ads. And this was the first time ever it had experienced this after Apple’s famous ad tracking policy came into play.

In this way, iPhone users were given the chance to opt out of having data be tracked through several apps. In addition to that, the firm’s growth has been massively affected by the great competition on display, thanks to apps like TikTok and takeaway screentime once owned by Meta’s apps.

But remember, the news isn’t entirely new. We’ve seen Meta talk about how it’s been busy preparing fur such cuts in jobs for a while now. And the first time we saw it was actually July as the firm started to brace itself for some major cuts. Moreover, seeing it miss out on its earnings for the quarter was another major hint of how things weren’t going in its favor. There would also be a slower pace for the company in terms of making investments.

The CEO for Meta also shed light on how teams would be made smaller in response to the fall in revenue targets as it indicated a downturn for the firm. This was outlined as the initial year in the app’s history when it failed to grow.

If this bad news wasn’t enough, there’s talk about how Meta has been facing a lot of downturn like other firms who generate most of their income through advertising and hence need to brace for this economic challenge. This came with a recent fall in the interest rate for the Federal Reserve.

Twitter mentioned how a hiring freeze was also going to take center stage in its own firm in May and that’s when workers were requested to limit spending where feasible. Then came Snapchat which reduced its workforce by a staggering 20% too. Last but not least, Google was also forced to make some amendments keeping in light the current situation.

Its parent firm called Alphabet reduced the hiring rate to nearly half this year.

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Whatsapp is improving its preexisting features with its newest update

Whatsapp is now working on launching two new versions of preexisting features including the online status and the camera feature, reports WBI.

Whatsapp has changed the placement of the camera from the community tab to somewhere more accessible. This new feature came forward only recently and is available for only Beta users. It is still under development so we do not know when it will be out for all of its users however we believe it will be a part of the next update.

The app is also going to have a major change in the camera button settings. Users will now have separate buttons for photos and videos. In the current version, there is only a single button that users need to press and hold to record videos. However, in the new update, users will have a video button on the left and a photo button on the right.

Along with this, Whatsapp is also finally fixing the bug that has annoyed thousands of Whatsapp by now. Have you ever scrolled through a chat and landed on a very old conversation instead? This was happening to thousands of users and regardless of complaints, Whatsapp was not addressing the issue. However, with the announcement of its latest update, Whatsapp also promised to fix this particular issue.

Whatsapp has also been giving time to our favorite feature, the ability to control who can see you online. This feature was already out for some Beta users, however, Whatsapp is now rolling this out to even more users. Hopefully, it will reach us soon as well!

The feature works peculiarly. Whatsapp gives users options to choose who can see their last seen. This includes everyone, no one, contacts, and all contacts except the selected individuals. The new option to choose who you're shown online works the same way. It gives you the option to choose between nobody and the same as last seen.

To check whether you are one of the lucky ones who have been blessed with this feature, check your privacy settings in this instance! If you can't find it, unfortunately, you will have to wait for the next update.

We are really happy with Whatsapp's updates this time around and hope to see similar ones shortly as well.

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World