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AT&T (T) CEO John Stankey has a message to rival T-Mobile: Cut the nonsense when advertising to seniors. “They issued some statements and went out into the market with some communications that were inaccurate and not true,” Stankey told Yahoo Finance Live at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference this week (video above). T-Mobile (TMUS) — long seen as a clever marketer of its wireless brand — recently launched a campaign dubbed “Verizon and AT&T Ban Senior Discounts.” The… Source link

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger said on Wednesday the entertainment giant had determined that a “substantial portion” of Twitter’s users were “not real” in 2016, when Disney was weighing a purchase of the social network.Iger said the Walt Disney Co. and Twitter Inc. boards were prepared to enter negotiations when he got cold feet. He said that, with Twitter’s help, Disney had learned that “a substantial portion — not a majority -” of users were fake.“I remember discounting… Source link

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said he wants to make the company 20% more productive, the latest sign that the technology giant is planning changes to deal with macroeconomic uncertainty. Mr. Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Tuesday night, cited past decisions to merge overlapping product areas as an example of changes that could happen at Google, a unit of Alphabet Source link

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he wants to make the company 20% more efficient and that could include headcount cuts as it reckons with a slew of economic challenges as well as years of rapid hiring. Speaking at Code Conference in Los Angeles, Pichai gave more details about how he’s thinking of making the company… Source link

Leadership expert and former Medtronic CEO Bill George ripped Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “Facebook and Mark are not grounded in values, so he is all over the map,” the corporate insider said in a scathing assessment of Zuckerberg’s leadership as CEO. George, known for his very successful stint as Medtronic’s CEO from 1991 to 2001, is the author of new leadership book “True North: Emerging Leader Edition.” In the book, George and… Source link

Over the last few decades, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have become something of a staple for startups. OKRs are the goal-setting framework that has propelled companies like Intel, Uber, Amazon, LinkedIn, and many more to success. Think of a tech startup, and chances are they use OKRs. And in the world of OKRs, there’s one name that reigns supreme: John Doerr. The author of Measure What Matters, Doerr was taught this framework by its original creator and CEO of Intel, Andy Grove. He’s… Source link

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon spoke to some of the bank’s wealthy clients on a call Tuesday, Yahoo reported.  He said there’s a 20-30% chance of a “harder recession” and equal odds of “something worse.” He described current risks as “storm clouds,” an apparent downgrade from his June warning of a “hurricane.” … Source link

P Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon looks on during the inauguration of the new French headquarters of US’ JP Morgan bank in June 2021 in Paris.MICHEL EULER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon spoke to some of the bank’s wealthy clients on a call Tuesday, Yahoo reported. He said there’s a 20-30% chance of a “harder recession” and equal odds of “something worse.” He described current risks as “storm clouds,” an apparent downgrade from his June warning of a “hurricane.” JPMorgan CEO Jamie… Source link

On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing the Consumer Price Index rose 8.5% over the past year as of July. The number showed inflation had cooled from 9.1% the prior month, somewhat easing fears of a recession. On a recent episode of “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” before the latest inflation numbers were released, ServiceNow (NOW) CEO Bill McDermott predicted that, if a recession comes, it would not pose a long-term threat to the U.S. economy. “I’m actually really… Source link