Good morning! Next time your manager's making unreasonable demands, just be glad you're not a Salesforce engineer. Thanks to consultants paid millions of dollars, managers will now have to require that engineers ship lots of code or say bye bye.

Highlight of the day

ByteDance tests food delivery via Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok. Users are able to purchase directly from livestreams by restaurants, and Douyin will facilitate deliveries - both for individuals and "group buying" packages. Time will tell if TikTok tries to follow the super-app model.

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• Google beta tests its new interest-based ad-targeting on Android 

• Meta updates its "Why am I seeing this ad" feature 

• Instagram to kill its live shopping feature

• Microsoft kills Yammer, its enterprise social network 

• Salesforce adds more gender options to its core product fields

General and early-stage

• GitHub opens up full access to it's Copilot for Business product

• Otter launches OtterPilot, its new AI meeting assistant

• Sparks rebrands to Flamme and adds an AI-powered AMA feature 

• BuzzFeed ships Infinity Quizzes, an AI-powered quiz product

• Logz launches a generative AI model for ops teams 

Other good finds

• Lauryn Isford. Mastering new user onboarding 

• Out and about. Airbnb posts a record Q4 as travel recovers post-pandemic

• Details. Virgin Orbit's shuttle launch failed due to a single loose fuel filter

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