Technology

Late this past summer, Meetup founder and CEO Scott Heiferman moved into the chairman position, leaving the CEO role vacant. Today, Meetup has announced that David Siegel will be taking the helm at the 15-year-old company.

Siegel hails from Investopedia, where he served as CEO for three years, tripling the companyrevenue and doubling its traffic in that period. Before his time at Investopedia, Siegel was president of Seeking Alpha, overseeing U.S.-based functions including sales, marketing, product and bizdev.

At the end of 2017, co-working behemoth WeWork acquired Meetup for a reported $200 million. Meetupentire premise is based on the idea of community — use the internet to get people off the internet and talking in real life. Thata central theme in the WeWork strategy.

Herewhat Siegel had to say about the transition:

In a world where technology often drives greater distances between people, Meetup uses technology to bring real, in-person and life-changing connections to millions of people globally. Together with WeWork, Meetup is reinventing how people work, live, learn, play, and create community every day. I am thrilled to be a be a part of this incredibly exciting venture to bring more people together.

Meetup currently has more than 40 million members, 320,000 Meetup groups and facilitates 12,000 meetups per day around the world.

Over the past two years, the notch moved from anomaly to fact of life, and no company has proven itself more pro-notch than Google. From its embrace of #notchlife in Android Pie to the downright gigantic one found up top on the Pixel 3 XL, Googlereally notchin& it up.

In fact, as noted by Android Police, the Pixel 3 XL has a notch so nice, Googledelivering it twice. A number of owners have reported an admittedly hilarious bug thatcausing the massive handset to double up on the notch, with a second cutout appearing on the side of the device.

Google has acknowledged (acknotchleged) the issue and noted that itworking on a fix, which should be coming soon. The company hasn&t offered a reason behind the issue, but it appears to stem from Piebuilt-in notch feature, and likely has something to do with how the background adjusts when the handset changes from portrait to landscape mode.

It seems even in 2018, thata notch too far.

If you missed out on the sweet Xbox One X bundle deal from JB Hi-Fi earlier on, then now’s your chance to get one almost as cheap.

The Gamesmen are having a limited 10% off storewide sale, which brings their wicked Red Dead and Forza bundle for the latest Microsoft console down to $539.95. Considering the console itself is still running at a retail