Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 4, 2021
April 11, 2021 at 8:00 am
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 4, 2021.
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The unionization votes are now in the hands of the National Labor Relations Board and the two factions have completed their challenges to individual ballots in the year-long battle to organize nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. The next two days are going to determine which of the two sides has the upper hand: Amazon, which aggressively opposed unionization in the Alabama fulfillment center, or the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, which has been trying to convince the plant’s workers to form the retail company’s first unionized employee grou
Former Facebook exec Vijaye Raji leads new startup Statsig to help developers build features quickly
April 7, 2021 at 8:05 am
Vijaye Raji (left) and the Statsig team. (Statsig Photo)
New startup:Vijaye Raji, a tech vet who previously led Facebook’s 5,000-person engineering outpost in Seattle, is CEO and founder of Statsig, a Seattle-area company that just formed to help developers build and launch features quickly.
Statsig’s pitch: Raji spent a decade at Facebook and learned how it used internal development tools to streamline the way new features were tested and ultimately implemented. They include Gatekeeper, which lets developers build features visible to only a targeted set of users, and Deltoid, a visual map of how critical metrics are affected by new features.
Making Facebook culturally relevant to India is critical: Fidji Simo, Head of Facebook App
Facebook has partnered with music companies like T Series, Zee Music, Yash Raj, and Times Music to introduce a premium music experience, which was later rolled out globally.
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As home to thriving communities on Facebook s family of apps and one of its largest and fastest-growing market, it is critical to make Facebook culturally relevant to India,
Fidji Simo, Head of the Facebook app, said on Tuesday.
Speaking on the first day of Fuel for India, she said, “Nowhere has this been more important than in India where there are billions of different voices to be connected with. Making Facebook culturally relevant to India is extremely critical to how we think about the country as a whole.”