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Business Mayor
04-05-2025
- Business Mayor
Bye, bye Skype
Is Skype shutting down?Yes. After two decades of pixelated faces, frozen calls, 'Can you hear me now?' moments and the iconic ringtone, Skype is logging off from tomorrow, May 5. Why now? Wasn't Skype 'the thing'? In short – MS Teams happened. Microsoft has been gently nudging users from Skype to Microsoft Teams. Let's be honest, Skype has been lagging, especially with GenZ and their FaceTimes, Zooms, and IG Lives. But yes, for a whole generation, Skype was internet's first awkward attempt at long-distance intimacy – cousins in the US or Britain showing us snow over choppy video; long-distance couples crying pixelated tears…. But what happens to my Skype account now? If you are still clinging to that Skype ID from 2008, don't panic. Microsoft says you can migrate your chats and contacts to Teams. But you won't be able to sign in to Skype or download it after May Skype be remembered fondly or be a tech fossil?Bit of both. But it was revolutionary. Skype taught us to video call before it was cool (and before it was mandatory during pandemics). But it didn't keep up with the times. So, what are my options now? Many. There is Skype's official hier – Microsoft teams. Corporate's darling – Zoom and Google Meet. And then GenZ approved FaceTime, WhatsApp or Instagram video calls. Any final words in memory of Skype? Skype, you gave us bad lighting, frozen faces, and the thrill of hearing, 'I think you are on mute' before it was the pandemic trend. You were the 'call' before the call. Thanks for the memories – and for glitching through every important moment of the 2010s. Read More Round or square? Text: Team Sunday ET READ SOURCE
Economic Times
03-05-2025
- Economic Times
Bye, bye Skype
Live Events Is Skype shutting down Yes. After two decades of pixelated faces, frozen calls, 'Can you hear me now?' moments and the iconic ringtone, Skype is logging off from tomorrow, May now? Wasn't Skype 'the thing'?In short - MS Teams happened. Microsoft has been gently nudging users from Skype to Microsoft Teams. Let's be honest, Skype has been lagging, especially with GenZ and their FaceTimes, Zooms, and IG Lives. But yes, for a whole generation, Skype was internet's first awkward attempt at long-distance intimacy - cousins in the US or Britain showing us snow over choppy video; long-distance couples crying pixelated what happens to my Skype account now?If you are still clinging to that Skype ID from 2008, don't panic. Microsoft says you can migrate your chats and contacts to Teams. But you won't be able to sign in to Skype or download it after May Skype be remembered fondly or be a tech fossil?Bit of both. But it was revolutionary. Skype taught us to video call before it was cool (and before it was mandatory during pandemics). But it didn't keep up with the what are my options now?Many. There is Skype's official hier - Microsoft teams. Corporate's darling - Zoom and Google Meet. And then GenZ approved FaceTime, WhatsApp or Instagram video final words in memory of Skype?Skype, you gave us bad lighting, frozen faces, and the thrill of hearing, 'I think you are on mute' before it was the pandemic trend. You were the 'call' before the call. Thanks for the memories - and for glitching through every important moment of the Team Sunday ET
Time of India
03-05-2025
- Time of India
Bye, bye Skype
Is Skype shutting down ? #Pahalgam Terrorist Attack Code of war: India and Pakistan take their battle to the (web)front Forex reserves show a pauperised Pakistan, a prospering India Pakistan conducts training launch of surface-to surface ballistic missile Yes. After two decades of pixelated faces, frozen calls, 'Can you hear me now?' moments and the iconic ringtone, Skype is logging off from tomorrow, May 5. Why now? Wasn't Skype 'the thing'? In short - MS Teams happened. Microsoft has been gently nudging users from Skype to Microsoft Teams. Let's be honest, Skype has been lagging, especially with GenZ and their FaceTimes, Zooms, and IG Lives. But yes, for a whole generation, Skype was internet's first awkward attempt at long-distance intimacy - cousins in the US or Britain showing us snow over choppy video; long-distance couples crying pixelated tears.... But what happens to my Skype account now? Live Events If you are still clinging to that Skype ID from 2008, don't panic. Microsoft says you can migrate your chats and contacts to Teams. But you won't be able to sign in to Skype or download it after May 5. Will Skype be remembered fondly or be a tech fossil? Bit of both. But it was revolutionary. Skype taught us to video call before it was cool (and before it was mandatory during pandemics). But it didn't keep up with the times. So, what are my options now? Many. There is Skype's official hier - Microsoft teams. Corporate's darling - Zoom and Google Meet. And then GenZ approved FaceTime, WhatsApp or Instagram video calls. Any final words in memory of Skype? Skype, you gave us bad lighting, frozen faces, and the thrill of hearing, 'I think you are on mute' before it was the pandemic trend. You were the 'call' before the call. Thanks for the memories - and for glitching through every important moment of the 2010s. Text: Team Sunday ET
Business Insider
22-04-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
CEOs share their routines for staying calm in stressful times
Megan Gluth has something many other CEOs don't: a side gig. While Gluth's day job is running Catalynt Solutions, a distributor and producer of chemicals used in everything from soft drinks to shampoo and paint, she teaches yoga at least once a week at a studio near her home outside Seattle. "Everybody thinks it's kind of funny that I have a part-time job," she told Business Insider. That side hustle is proving useful. Because of uncertainty over tariffs, she's had to pull back on some investments that Catalynt had planned. Gluth, 44, has also had to have difficult conversations with clients about price hikes resulting from import duties. Those types of discussions, plus being a mother to kids ages 6 and 8, make her days stressful. To help endure it all, she relies on the yoga and is a "committed meditator." Like Gluth, many CEOs have long found ways to deal with taxing days that often spill into evenings and weekends. Indeed, having bosses share self-care routines became popular during the pandemic as managers sought to discuss coping mechanisms with workers amid the Zooms and sourdough starter. Now, as questions swirl about how tariffs might collide with the economy, wellness routines are again serving as important tools to help dial down stress, Gluth and other chiefs told BI. Keeping a balanced life Keith Lambert founded and runs Oxidizers, a company that sells pollution-control equipment and services to industrial sites around the US. He's also the CEO of InCheq, which helps organizations manage critical tasks. Running two companies keeps him busy. Luckily, Lambert is a morning guy — some days he's out of bed by 3:30 a.m. "The moment I'm up, I'm moving," Lambert said. That movement helps him remain calm, he said. Lambert has plenty of conference calls and, when he has to, sits in front of a camera. Otherwise, he's on his feet and, when the weather allows, is on his phone while walking through his neighborhood outside Chicago. "When I can, I keep myself in motion," Lambert, 55, said. Besides walking, he starts his days reading scripture. Lambert also makes time for friends and, especially, his wife, the couple's son, and their dog, a wheaten terrier-poodle mix known as a whoodle. "I guess you could say I do my best to practice a balanced life," Lambert said. Time in the woods Michelle Volberg, founder and CEO of the startup Twill, often finds balance in the woods near her home outside New York City. She enjoys " forest bathing, " a practice that originated in Japan and involves being in nature to boost well-being. Volberg told BI that once or twice a week, she'll try to find 45 minutes for a hike with her husband. Time beneath the canopy, where her phone often falls silent due to a lack of signal, means she can do some of her best strategic thinking, she said. On the hikes, when Volberg does tap at her phone, it's mostly to collect ideas for her company, which pays tech workers to recommend peers for key jobs. "That completely grounds me and calms me with all of the chaos that generally surrounds founders and CEOs," Volberg, 38, said, referring to time outside without distractions. She also relies on a community of women who, like her, run venture-backed startups. Volberg is part of a group of about 500 women who belong to the organization VC Backed Moms. Its members often communicate through a Slack group to trade ideas and share information. It's generally all off the record, she said. She said it's helpful to learn how others are handling various situations. "The more perspectives you can get on a situation, the better off you are to make your own decision," Volberg said. Starting with 'purposeful scrolling' Technology also helps Kyle Hanslovan, cofounder and CEO of Huntress, a cybersecurity firm. Most mornings, he said, he'll spend about an hour in bed engaging in "purposeful scrolling." Hanslovan, 39, tends to start with Instagram to catch up on his personal life, move to LinkedIn for insights on topics like business and history, and end on X, where he reads various news and finds diverse opinions. "I need stuff that is still mentally stimulating that is not work," he told BI, referring to his use of social media. While social media often gets a bad rap, he says, rather than ratcheting up his stress, he's pruned his feeds so they offer good insights. Hanslovan often texts himself links to some of his favorite nuggets. Some, like quotes from famed boxer Muhammad Ali or Steve Jobs, make their way into the "Townhall Tuesday" companywide meetings he runs. Hanslovan, an Air Force veteran, has a gym at his Jacksonville, Florida, home, so he makes a point to work out three to five times a week. Even though he said the gym isn't a time for thinking, finding time to get his heartbeat above 170 beats a minute — with his phone nowhere near him — is "so damn important." Responding, not reacting Each week, in her hatha yoga class, Gluth from Catalynt Solutions, guides participants on breath work and meditation. Meditation and yoga help her maintain a mindset of "responding rather than reacting." Gluth sees that approach as a hallmark of leadership. She takes staying focused seriously, in part because she has dozens of people working for her. "I have 55 families, essentially, that depend on me every day to not lose my shit," Gluth said. "I need to be centered, and I need to be balanced."
Fox News
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
‘Facts of Life' actress sets record straight about reboot after co-star claims 'greedy b----' sabotaged it
Lisa Whelchel wants to get the facts straight on what really happened to the "Facts of Life" reboot. The actress spoke to Closer Weekly a year after co-star Mindy Cohn claimed plans fell apart thanks to an unnamed "greedy b----." "We were all very, very disappointed that it didn't work," the 61-year-old, who played Blair Warner, told the outlet. "We'd been trying to find a way to work together in some capacity for probably the last 10 years," Whelchel explained. "So, when it looked like this was going to happen, we were all really excited. The contracts were signed and then the writers' strike happened, the actors' strike happened, and then, unfortunately, Pa [Charlotte Rae] and Norman Lear passed. After that, it just kind of dissolved." "We were all quite disappointed," Whelchel stressed. Rae, who played a wise and patient housemother to a brood of teenage girls, died in 2018 at age 92. Lear passed away in 2023 at age 101. A year later, Cohn was on Sirius XM's "Jeff Lewis Live," where she revealed a "greedy b----" was to blame for reboot plans being shelved. Cohn explained that after the success of an ABC special, "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes," in 2021, which featured an all-star recreation of episodes of both shows, including Jennifer Aniston in Whelchel's role, Lear reached out to the cast. "He said, 'Are you guys interested?' And we had all never really talked about it, but we all started to consider it a little bit, and we got into talks. And we hired a writer, and the four of us got together on Zooms. This was during COVID, and we had meetings with Norman about it," Cohn said. Asked what happened, Cohn replied, "What happened was not cute. Yeah… There was drama." "More than that," Cohn said. "[She] went behind our backs and tried to make a separate deal for a spinoff just for herself and devastated the rest of us. … I had booked 'Palm Royale;' another girl is working. I'm just saying it was for a 40-year friendship and sisterhood. There was a tidal wave of emotion around it." "She was a greedy b----, I'll say it," she added. The 58-year-old said the actresses didn't talk "for a while and now we do-ish, but there's definitely, it was an ouch." She added that there is "no desire to ever work together" and the reboot is "dead. It's very dead." "A couple of people can't move past it, don't want to move past it. We are not as united. Let me put it that way. We were united for 40 years over not talking about each other, not doing dirty, not, you know, all for one, one for all, and this kind of wrecked that, which is sad. Really sad," Cohn said. The "Palm Royale" star was asked who the "greedy b----" was among her co-stars — Whelchel, Kim Fields or Nancy McKeon. Cohn refused to say but hinted that her Instagram contained the answer, noting who she spends time with and who she doesn't is clear. The hosts continued to attempt to guess, but they said Cohn wouldn't budge. WATCH: FACTS OF LIFE STAR LISA WHELCHEL EXPLAINS WHY SHE DIDN'T RELEASE MORE MUSIC AFTER HER '80S SOLO ALBUM At the end of the show, a caller suggested it was Whelchel, based on combing through Cohn's Instagram. Cohn joked it was George Clooney, who appeared on the show early in his career. At the time, Cohn shared birthday messages to Fields and McKeon but not Whelchel on her Instagram. Representatives for Whelchel, McKeon, Fields and Cohn didn't respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. A few days after Cohn's interview, Whelchel posted a promo for her MeTV show, "Collector's Call." Some fans chimed in with their support for her amid speculation about who caused the reboot to fall apart. "FYI I am Team Lisa," one person wrote. "You/Blair have been my favorite since I was a little kid…I really admire the class you've always shown including now. Lots of fans sending you support!" another person wrote. Whelchel liked both comments. On "Jeff Lewis Live," Cohn said she accepts that the revival didn't get off the ground. "No one wants to see us now," she said. "You know what's cute? They want to see where you are now. They don't want a show about it. Be honest." "It should stay where it is," Cohn shared. "… I think it's so good where it is... This thing should stay wrapped." In 2022, Whelchel spoke to Fox News Digital about a possible reboot. "It's a wonderful trip down memory lane," she said at the time. "… We've been talking about a reimagining of 'Facts of Life' and bringing it back again. Nothing is set yet, but it's been really fun to talk about it. What I have brought to the table for those conversations is [that] I would love to see a little bit more acceptance of what reality looks like for a midlife woman." "… I'm about 15 pounds heavier than I was on 'Facts of Life,'" she shared. "If we were to do a re-imagining of the show, I would really like my character to address the realities that we face when we get to a certain age." Whelchel noted she wanted to give a realistic portrayal of her character navigating life today. "You just get fluffier, and it's really hard to lose weight, no matter what you do," she said. "Unless you want to devote your life to working out four hours a day and eating celery sticks, you're going to look like a middle-aged woman. And I don't want to hide from that. I don't want to feel less than." "Actors and actresses on television and movies have personal trainers and personal chefs," she continued. "They devote their lives to looking a certain way. I'd like to look a bit more realistic. And I'm proud of my journey." WATCH: FACTS OF LIFE STAR LISA WHELCHEL SHARES HER FAVORITE MEMORIES FROM THE SET, NEW LIFE WITH 'COLLECTORS CALL' "The Facts of Life" aired from 1979 to 1988 on NBC, spinning off from the series "Diff'rent Strokes," both created by Lear. The sitcom has remained popular and beloved over the years, running in syndication for years on multiple networks. In 2001, most of the cast reunited for "The Facts of Life Reunion" TV movie on ABC. The only missing member was McKeon, who had scheduling conflicts with her work on the Lifetime TV series "The Division."
