Steven Tweedie is a Deputy Editor and Business Newsroom Coach at Business Insider. He launched the Business News desk in early 2020 and helped grow it into the Trending and Tech News desk, a fast-paced reporting powerhouse that tackles the biggest business and tech stories of the day in an approachable way. He works out of the New York newsroom and helps train fellows and new hires at all experience levels in addition to his daily editing duties.
He began his career covering app startups and gadgets on the Technology desk at BI. His past reporting and scoops have been cited or syndicated by publications including the WSJ, Associated Press, CNN, Bloomberg, The Guardian, and Forbes. He attended the University of Michigan, where he studied economics and writing, and now lives in Brooklyn.
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Featured work:
▲Leaked memo: Wayfair CEO tells employees to expect long hours 'blending work and life' (scoop)
▲ Magic Leap's CFO is stepping down after it was 'mutually decided' it was time for someone new (scoop)
▲ 48 hours after raising $500 million, Magic Leap called the cops to say an employee had stolen $1 million (scoop)
▲ A conversation with the father of virtual reality about the changing culture of Silicon Valley
▲ The future of virtual reality is here
▲ The first details on the executive shakeup planned for Yahoo once its deal with Verizon closes (scoop)
▲ What it's like to log in to computers in North Korea, which run look-alike Mac software called 'Red Star 3.0'
Disclosure: Steven owns various cryptocurrencies.
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Google I/O 2024 saw the company announce an impressive Project Astra AI agent, updates to Gemini AI, Pixel, and Android.
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A US appeals court granted Apple's emergency request to temporarily pause an import ban on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2.
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2023-12-19T17:27:12Z
Apple is reportedly scrambling and trying to avoid an Apple Watch ban in the US.
Wayfair's CEO wrote that it was "back to winning" but that employees shouldn't get lazy. Read his memo to workers.
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2023-06-05T18:26:25Z
The announcement of the Vision Pro headset has been years in the making and is Apple's first new major product line since the Apple Watch in 2014.
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2023-06-02T14:34:44Z
Would you switch to a "Prime Wireless" plan if it meant a low-cost cellphone bill? Amazon is reportedly talking to wireless providers about the idea.
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2022-10-27T22:13:55Z
Three weeks after teasing that "Rings of Power" was "cresting" toward 100 million viewers, Amazon's pricey series still hasn't hit that milestone.
Walgreens on Monday said that it was searching for a new CEO and that Stefano Pessina would be executive chairman of the board after the transition.
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2020-05-07T22:32:40Z
Magic Leap was working on two new products before major company layoffs — an improved version of its original headset and an all-new glasses design.
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2019-11-15T21:55:35Z
"I want to let you know that Scott Henry and I have mutually decided that it is time for us to part ways," Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz said.
"As co-founder of WeWork, I am so proud of this team and the incredible company that we have built over the last decade," Neumann said in a statement to Business Insider.
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Intel announced Thursday morning that Bob Swan, who has been serving as interim CEO for more than half a year, would be its CEO moving forward.
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2018-06-28T00:20:55Z
BI PRIME: Headquartered in Hong Kong and led by CEO Steven Zhao, Sandbox VR currently offers virtual reality experiences in San Francisco, San Mateo, Los Angeles, and New York, and outside the US in Singapore and Thailand. Now, Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to invest.