This was one of the first investigations I commissioned at Business Insider. I'm so glad to see Vincent Woo's reporting have major impact! You can read his original reporting here: businessinsider.com/lambda-school-…

Coding boot camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred deceived students, US government agency says

This follows several BI stories about the activities of Bloom Institute of Technology , formerly known as Lambda School

At one point, Austen Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100% job-placement rate in

My latest: Most places of the world have probably forgotten about Threads, Meta's answer to X.

But not in Taiwan, where Threads managed to revive its popularity and become the cool & most downloaded social app, thanks to the Jan presidential election.

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Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII devastated SF's Japantown - what was once a rich, thriving neighborhood for Japanese Americans

For the first time, we can visualize how disastrous a 1942 order was on the community San Francisco Chronicle

sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

Yes, Meta was trying to 'clone' Snapchat thanks to data it got from Onavo, the app it acquired in 2013. Kali Hays reports on recent unsealed court docs: businessinsider.com/meta-onavo-dat… via @businessinsider

👏 Congratulations to SABEW's fourth class of Xana Fellows for #SABEW24 :

Chantal Allam
Suzannah Cavanaugh
Rosalie Chan
Xiumei Dong
Madeline Durrett
Emma Graney 🇦🇺🤷🏻‍♀️🇨🇦
Randa Kriss
Serah Louis
Lucia Maffei
Ariana Perez-Castells

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Leaked emails from inside Walmart Global Tech show that it had 16 major incidents in the first eight weeks of the company's fiscal year. Scoop from Ellen Bryant Thomas: businessinsider.com/walmart-tech-o… via Business Insider $WMT

.Madeline Stone wrote about how women are often excluded or overlooked in DTC communities, even though women are often target customers for many DTC brands. businessinsider.com/dtc-community-… via @businessinsider

I'm working on a Business Insider story on millennials living alone/what it takes to do that as a millennial in 2024 (given factors like the recession, the pandemic, etc.) If this applies to you, I'd love to hear your experiences. Contact me: rmchan [at] businessinsider [dot] com

OpenAI is expected to launch a 'materially better' GPT-5 for ChatGPT mid-year. Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues. Scoop from Kali Hays and Darius Rafieyan: businessinsider.com/openai-launch-… via @businessinsider

Domo CEO Josh James previously stepped down amid sexual assault allegations. Police investigated and declined to bring charges. James, a respected name in Utah's Silicon Slopes, returned as CEO in March 2023. My latest: businessinsider.com/domo-josh-jame… via @businessinsider $DOMO

.Ashley StewartInsideInsiInside Microsoft as it tries to hedge its bets in AI by hiring much of the Inflection team while distancing itself from the OpenAI drama last fall. Ashley Stewart reports: businessinsider.com/microsoft-hire… via @businessinsider $MSFT

A former Domo employee said CEO Josh James sexually assaulted her. She was fired.

Rosalie Chan got the police report – it said nothing happened. James stepped down months later, then returned.

Domo says neither the co nor James saw the police report.

businessinsider.com/domo-josh-jame…

BI editor Rosalie Chan spent many many months reporting out this important story.

It's about Domo CEO Josh James.

It cites police reports that have not been reported before

businessinsider.com/domo-josh-jame… via @businessinsider Rosalie Chan

'The employee told police that she had reported the incident to Domo the day after it happened, and that the company fired her in February 2022 after an internal investigation' 👀

An alarming new story from Utah's 'Silicon Slopes,' by Rosalie Chan

businessinsider.com/domo-josh-jame…

I'll be speaking at The Berkeley Forum next week! More info here: eventbrite.com/e/a-dialogue-o…

Missing my fringe friends. I've been waiting to read something like this and glad it was juliana kaplan who wrote it: businessinsider.com/death-casual-f…

KKR is acquiring VMware's End-User Computing unit for $4 billion. Broadcom acquired VMware in November and had said it was reviewing strategic alternatives for the unit. Leaked memos on what Broadcom leaders told staff about the deal: businessinsider.com/broadcom-memo-… via @businessinsider

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After nearly 2 years as Business Insider’s first features editor outside of the US, I’m a casualty of its recent layoffs and looking for my next move. There's lots about me at my website here: louiseridley.com

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google say cloud optimization days are behind them. Still, 45% of customers said cost controls were a major barrier to their company's cloud adoption, a survey says. Ellen Bryant Thomas reports: businessinsider.com/cloud-optimiza… via @businessinsider $AMZN $MSFT $GOOG