With the economic impacts of COVID-19, many companies are having to cut jobs, reduce salaries, or put employees on no-pay leave. In contrast, however, Chinese Internet giant and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is on a hiring spree. It aims to reach 100,000 staff globally by the end of 2020 by …
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My team has gone remote, we’ve had to cancel events, and I’ve had to rethink every part of my business. This is a diary of one of the most challenging weeks I’ve ever faced as a founder and CEO. Monday 16th March Walking on the beach with the dog at …
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If you were looking for signs of health in the ad tech market, you might look at the performance of the handful of publicly traded ad tech stocks — Criteo, The Trade Desk, Rubicon, etc — and you would get one, cautionary view on the segment. Or you might look …
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