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Mark Zuckerberg's existential product crisis Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Steve Jobs famously said Apple makes products that consumers don't know they want. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a slightly different challenge: He's creating products that people are explicitly telling Facebook they absolutely do not want. Facebook's cryptocurrency Diem (née Libra) ran into a similar wall of opposition when it was announced in 2019. This week the Facebook-backed project said it would shift its focus to creating a US dollar stablecoin, withdrawing more am...

In this week's edition of Insider Tech we look at the lessons of Yahoo and AOL, and prepare for Elon Musk's crypto comedy show.

A last waltz for Yahoo and AOL, and Elon's crypto comedy show aoreskovic@businessinsider.com (Alexei Oreskovic) Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech, including: © Provided by Business Insider EUTERS/Court Mast/Yahoo!/Handout Popular Searches Verizon announced it was selling the two sites to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for about $5 billion, roughly half of what it paid to acquire them. Iconic is an apt description for both Yahoo and AOL. The companies helped create the interne...

This week: Googlers fight for their right to WFH Advertisement Google employees are up in arms about a new hot-button issue: remote work. Google employees are due back in the office in September, and many are not happy about it. Some are even threatening to quit if they're not allowed to permanently work from home, as Hugh Langley reports: While tech firms such as Microsoft and Twitter have announced plans to allow employees to work from home permanently, Google has resisted going fully remote, and employees said there's an increasing sense of frustration among a faction of the workforce. A...

Googlers fight to stay home and Apple goes to court This week: Googlers fight for their right to WFH Stephen Lam/Reuters We've seen tech worker revolts about everything from toxic corporate cultures to sexual misconduct to workplace clampdowns on political speech. Now, some Google employees are up in arms about a new hot-button issue: remote work.  Google employees are due back in the office in September, and many are not happy about it. Some are even threatening to quit if they're not allowed to permanently work from home, as Hugh Langley reports: While tec...