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Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving the company in January. Lidiane Jones, currently an executive VP at parent company Salesforce, will succeed Butterfield as CEO. The move comes just days after Salesforce announced that its CEO, Bret Taylor, will also leave in early 2023. However, Butterfield says the actions are unrelated. “FWIW: This has nothing to do with Bret’s departure. Planning has been in the works for several months! Just weird timing,” he wrote in an internal Slack channel today, viewed by…

Salesforce Inc. said Stewart Butterfield, the chief executive and co-founder of the messaging app Slack Technologies, plans to leave the company. The news of Mr. Butterfield’s departure comes after Salesforce said last week that co-CEO Bret Taylorwould depart the company in January, leaving Chairman Marc Benioff the sole CEO of the company he co-founded. Mr. Taylor was credited as the architect of Salesforce’s $27.7 billion purchase of Slack in 2020. Salesforce Inc. said Stewart…

The Crash Detection feature, which comes built into the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, and new Apple Watch models, caused skiers to dial 911 accidentally, the media reported.Summit County dispatchers in the US state have seen an increase in accidental emergency calls from skiers because of the Crash Detection feature.The technology was designed to detect severe car crashes, but it's often accidentally activated at ski resorts."We will get a call that says the owner of this Apple Watch or iPhone has either had a severe crash or…