Instagram's Adam Mosseri laid out the company's priorities for 2022. He said the platform will focus on video, messaging and transparency. Instagram will also introduce more monetization tools for creators. Mosseri also said Instagram Kids was put on hold this year due to safety concerns.
A wave of tech executives are leaving their jobs at big tech companies to chase the next big thing. That's crypto, which includes digital currency like Bitcoin, products like NFTs that rely on a distributed ledger. Some see it as a transformational moment in the tech world that comes around once every few decades.
Crypto has been many things in its short history. 2021 was the year it became part of the mainstream. Elon Musk tweeted about it, often. It was parodied on “Saturday Night Live.” Collins Dictionary dubbed “NFT,” the acronym for nonfungible tokens, its word of the year.
2021 was the year of the e-bike, with a growth rate in sales of 240% over the 12 months leading up to July. The impact of micromobility on emissions reduction is undoubtedly greater than the advent of the electric car. This year saw cities adopt infrastructure plans that would have truly been unbelievable a decade ago.
Zoom has acquired assets from event production startup Liminal. Liminal offered apps like Zoom ISO and ZoomOSC that support improved production options. The acquisition included "certain assets from Liminal," as well as two of the company's co-founders. Zoom's spokesperson said Liminal's products would remain "largely available"
In the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies are talking about everything from supply chain to the future of technology. Quartz analyzed public business documents to find the latest buzzwords of the year. The term 'supply chain' has gone from jargon to meme. The 'metaverse’ was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel Snow Crash.