Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Meta Platforms, Formerly Facebook, Because of Company Investigation, Burnout – WSJ Report

Strictly Come Dancing star Shirley Ballas was in tears as she urged people to “be vigilant and ask more questions” of their loved ones, after reflecting on the “preventable” suicide of her brother. The entertainer, 61, said she failed to spot any signs that her older brother and “protector” David was suicidal before he took his own life in 2003 at the age of 44, despite the pair of them speaking every day on the phone.

Shirley Ballas has told how she can still feel the "shock" of the news of her brother's suicide running "through her body", as she helped to launch a new campaign to raise awareness of a misunderstood aspect of suicidal behaviour. The 'Strictly Come Dancing' judge is an ambassador for suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), which has today (22. 06.

Rob Lowe honored his wife of over 30 years in a sweet Instagram tribute on Monday. The 58-year-old actor praised Sheryl Berkoff as she celebrated her 61st birthday. «Happy Birthday to the love of my life,» he wrote. «You are the whole package, and I am blessed.  Here’s to many more years of love and fun! Xoxo.»A post shared by Rob Lowe (@roblowe)Berkoff responded to her husband’s note by leaving three heart smiley emojis in the comments section. It’s no secret that Lowe absolutely adores his wife. In May 2021, he spoke to ET about the positive impact the jewelry designer has had on his life. «Listen, she may have saved my life, really,» he explained.

Parents and reporters were asked to leave Uvalde City Hall this afternoon before a Texas House of Representatives committee held a hearing to gather testimony from officers involved in the response to a school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 others there last month.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNewportFILM Outdoors has unveiled its upcoming season of award-winning documentaries. The organization showcases non-fiction features and screens them in dramatic, often opulent settings around Newport, Rhode Island, a legendary summer getaway.

The World Wrestling Entertainment board is investigating longtime Chairman/CEO Vince McMahon for previously undisclosed settlement agreements with former employees. Those include a payoff of $3 million to a female employee he allegedly had an affair with, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

“American Dreamer,” which premiered this week at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. Based on a segment from the podcast “This American Life,” MacLaine plays a lonely widow who offers a cash-strapped professor (Peter Dinklage) the chance to buy her sprawling estate for mere pennies.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook once called its Portal family of devices, first introduced in 2018, “the future of video calling” — and spent big on ad campaigns pushing the products.Now the social media giant, since renamed Meta Platforms, is switching gears: The company will no longer produce consumer versions of the Portal and instead will focus on business uses, as first reported by The Information.The main feature of Meta Portal (which was previously called Facebook Portal) is video-calling, with the ability to start or join calls of up to 50 people. The devices feature built-in support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.In addition, the Portal line has been positioned as an entertainment device, providing access to Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Paramount+ and Showtime, as well as Spotify, Pandora and iHeartRadio (and, of course, Facebook Watch).

Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner Carol Burnett has joined the cast of Mrs. American Pie, the Apple comedy series starring Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Allison Janney, and Leslie Bibb, among others.

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According to WSJ, Meta has been investigating Sandberg’s “activities” at the company. This includes “a review of her use of corporate resources to help plan her coming wedding,” the paper said.

Jonathan Littman, who has led Jerry Bruckheimer Television as President for the past 25 years after helping build the entity, has left his position to start his own production company.“The last 25 years have been the ride of a lifetime and stepping away was a difficult decision. Having just celebrated our 25th anniversary and given the stability of our incredible executive team, this felt like the right time to step off and pursue a growing desire of mine to start my own company,” said Littman.

EXCLUSIVE: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke (A Discovery of Witches, Bancroft) attached as writer/showrunner.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorShares of Meta Platforms were up 1.8% in early trading Thursday, coming after longtime COO Sheryl Sandberg — one of the most powerful women execs in the tech industry — announced she was stepping down from the role.In after-hours trading Wednesday, Meta’s stock price had dropped as much as 3% on the news that Sandberg, a 14-year veteran of the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, was departing. On Thursday morning, broader market indexes were down while the Nasdaq Composite was up 0.6% amid the rise in Meta shares.On May 28, Sandberg informed Meta of her decision to resign from her position as COO “after a transition period,” according to an SEC filing.

Meta's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is leaving the company after 14 years, she announced Wednesday in a Facebook post.Sandberg will be replaced by Javier Olivan, the company's current chief growth officer, after a transition period this summer. She will continue to serve on the Board of Directors.«I am not entirely sure what the future will bring,» Sandberg wrote on Facebook.

Carson Burton Sheryl Sandberg, who has been chief operating officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced that she will be stepping down from the role after 14 years.“When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday. “Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life.