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Canva CEO Melanie Perkins says of the AI product rush, “We’ll do what we’ve always done, which is focus on our own race.”Courtesy of Canva The ten-year-old Australian startup led by Melanie Perkins said annualized revenue reached $1.6 billion and also unveiled brand-driven features for its 6 million team accounts. Shortly after CEO Melanie Perkins launched Canva, investors told her she lacked a total addressable market in the design software startup’s pitch decks. She refused to give one. “I was like, everyone will eventually create some form of visual content, and they’ll use Canva,” Perkins said. Forbes. “And the question…
Just a few months ago, San Diego State and Creighton shared a charter flight en route to the Maui Invitational.Head coaches Brian Dutcher and Greg McDermott sat across the aisle for six hours, discussing their teams and pondering the possibility of meeting in Maui’s title game.”And then everything would be fine,” McDermott said, “with one of us winning and the other losing.”The Aztecs and Bluejays missed each other on Maui, but, as fate would have it, their paths would cross again with a little more at stake. upheavals to set up an unlikely regional final between the No. 5 and…
There’s no shortage of cheap Bluetooth speakers from manufacturers you’d never see on store shelves in North America, but far fewer that make a cut for the high-end wireless speaker market. range. It’s hard to get consumers to part with big bucks on a speaker that doesn’t have a household name. Chinese company Trettitre gives it a shot with the $699.99 TreSound1, a sample of which was sent to me by distributor Linsoul Audio. Three of the TreSound1 color options.Thirty three Premium – But polarizing – Design The TreSound1 has a very unusual appearance, which immediately catches the eye. Trettitre…
A sign for an Amazon Go store is seen at Amazon.com headquarters November 14, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. CEO Andy Jassy said on March 20 that the company was cutting its workforce by 9,000, after January’s announcement it was cutting 18,000 positions. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)Getty Images After the third round of layoffs since November hit Becky Brownlee’s team at Amazon, she posted on LinkedIn how she felt. “It’s heartbreaking to lose colleagues,” wrote Brownlee, a “people and technology experience” manager who said in a separate post that she had decided to leave the company. “As a bonus, those…
Markquis Nowell set an NCAA Tournament single-game record with 19 assists on Thursday. (Photo by Al … [+] Bello/Getty Images)Getty Images NEW YORK — As Markquis Nowell soaked up adulation from a record-breaking performance at Madison Square Garden, the irony of the moment didn’t escape Harlem’s little guard. Moments earlier, Nowell notched a thrilling win over Michigan State with a critical steal in the final seconds of overtime. He joined his Kansas State teammates in a raucous celebration, then bumped into childhood hero Carmelo Anthony on his way to the locker room. During the short walk from the floor to…
Apple AirTags could be useful as a police surveillance device, according to a DEA warrant. Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images Apple’s quarter-size location tracker was hidden in a pill press by the DEA for surveillance. The AirTag’s small size and reliability could make it an attractive tool for cops. In May last year, border agents intercepted two packages from Shanghai, China. Inside one was a pill press, a machine used to compress powders into tablets, in the other pill dyes. Believing they were destined for an illegal narcotics manufacturer, the Drug Enforcement Agency was called. DEA investigators inspected…
Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and Patrick Swayze on the set of The foreigners, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and released 40 years ago. (Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)Francis Ford Coppola had already made the indisputable classics The Godfather (1972), The conversation (1974), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Revelation now (1979). But the disastrous release of just one movie, the 1982 genre romance one of the heartalmost broke it.“I was very depressed at the time [after One From the Heart]which broke my heart and involved some stupidity on my part,”…
An AI-created image of former President Donald Trump praying on one knee circulating on … [+] social networks.Twitter Images created with artificial intelligence have flooded social media in recent months, with some people using AI tools like Midjourney to imagine what Donald Trump’s arrest would look like. But the former president is not opposed to photos created by AI. Trump shared an image of himself on Thursday morning to Truth Social. And that’s almost certainly wrong. The image, which has been circulating on pro-Trump Twitter for at least SATURDAY, shows the former president kneeling in prayer. At first glance, it…
Hui Ka Yan, Chairman of Evergrande Real Estate Group (Photo by Nora Tam/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)South China Morning Post via Getty Images China Evergrande Group has unveiled its plan to restructure about $19 billion in offshore debt, giving its billionaire founder Hui Ka Yan more time to get back to business and generate much-needed cash. But analysts say the plan lacks detail and offers less than favorable terms to creditors. Holders of the Hong Kong-listed company’s offshore debt are to receive a basket of options, according to a filing filed late Wednesday with the city’s stock exchange.…
Here is the version published this week Forbes Careers Newsletter, which brings the latest news, commentary and ideas on the workplace, leadership and the future of work straight to your inbox every Wednesday. Click here to subscribe to the list of newsletters! In this photo illustration a Microsoft 365 Copilot logo is seen on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images IIt was almost dizzying last week to see Microsoft’s executive team show off Copilot, its new natural language-based artificial intelligence tool that will be integrated into its suite of productivity…