Monat: Mai 2017

After Trump Suggests Canceling Press Briefings, Twitter Exec Suggests Twitter Q&As

Twitter / Getty

After watching his communications team get pummeled all week for their uncoordinated response to the firing of FBI director James Comey, President Donald Trump suggested a possible fix early Friday. In a tweet, he said it may be better to do away with the press briefings entirely and hand out written responses to questions instead.

Twitter CFO and COO Anthony Noto saw this as an opportunity, and replied to the president's tweet with an alternative suggestion. “May I suggest questions submitted and answered via Twitter. A perfect record and we distribute to the world not just those with a TV.”

Noto later clarified that he didn't support canceling the press briefing, but people reacted critically to his first tweet after it appeared to suggest otherwise. The White House press briefing is viewed widely as an important democratic activity, one that gives reporters a chance to come face to face with the administration and ask questions informed by their reporting — then they can explain the responses with context to those not watching the White House full time.

The issue is particularly fraught since Press Secretary Sean Spicer already suggested Trump may replace traditional interviews with social media Q&As.

Twitter's made no secret of the fact that it values Trump's presence on its platform. “I believe it's really important to hear directly from our leadership. And I believe it's really important to hold them accountable,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told NBC in an interview earlier this week.

Trump's presence also appears to be helping the company grow its user base, according to a Noto statement on the company's earnings call last month: “There also is some evidence that we’ve benefitted from our new and resurrected users following more news and political accounts in Q1, particularly in the US.”

Quelle: <a href="After Trump Suggests Canceling Press Briefings, Twitter Exec Suggests Twitter Q&As“>BuzzFeed

Part Of Apple's New Billion Dollar Jobs Fund Will Go To Its Glass Maker, Corning

Thomas Peter / Reuters

The American company behind the signature glass of the iPhone and dozens of other electronic devices will receive a $200 million investment from Apple, as the company says it is committing to boosting US manufacturing through a billion dollar jobs fund announced earlier this month.

Corning, whose Gorilla Glass is found in nearly 5 billion products — including companies like Samsung, HP, and Dell — will use the money to bolster research and development and cutting edge glass production, according to Apple. A Corning plant in Harrodsburg , Kentucky, which supplies the glass for the iPhone, will be a focus of the investment.

Corning's partnership with Apple began a decade ago, with the first iPhone, and their relationship has helped create almost 1,000 US jobs, Corning's CEO and president Wendell Weeks said in a statement. For Apple, the investment is designed in part to support high-skilled jobs in the US. And the announcement follows commitments by other technology companies, including Amazon and Infosys — who have emphasized job-creation initiatives since Donald Trump took office.

Apple estimates that it provides more than two million jobs in the US, even as the majority of its hardware is manufactured in China. Unveiled last week by CEO Tim Cook, Apple's billion dollar Advanced Manufacturing Fund comes as president Trump has pushed job growth as a top priority for his administration.

“We’re really looking at this thing deeply,” Cook said of the manufacturing fund. “How do we grow our employee base? How do we grow our developer base? And how do we grow manufacturing? You’ll see us bring things to market in all of those areas across this year.”

Quelle: <a href="Part Of Apple's New Billion Dollar Jobs Fund Will Go To Its Glass Maker, Corning“>BuzzFeed