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Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned — Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.
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At an all-hands, CEO Parag Agrawal acknowledged Twitter was vulnerable to a takeover since it had historically underachieved and asked staff to “embrace change” — CEO Parag Agrawal on five years of regrets — Late Thursday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the company … | Adam Serwer / The Atlantic: |
Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda — Conservatives on Twitter have greeted Elon Musk as a liberator. The mega-billionaire is in the process of purchasing …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Inside Twitter, frustrations have mounted about Elon Musk's moderation plans, ahead of elections in Brazil and the midterm election in the US — Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn't appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.
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Filings: Elon Musk sold ~$8.4B worth of Tesla stock in the days after his bid to take Twitter private; on Thursday, Musk tweeted “No further TSLA sales planned” — - Elon Musk sold roughly $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares in the days following his bid to take Twitter private …
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Instacart plans a strategy shift to sell software to grocers and more ads in its app, trying to avoid becoming another pandemic boom company that has fizzled — The grocery delivery start-up parted ways with its founder, slashed its valuation and shifted its strategy after sales slowed.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple says apps that haven't been updated in past three years and have low downloads will be removed from App Store, extends time to update from 30 to 90 days — Late last week, controversy erupted after Apple began notifying some developers that their apps that had not been updated …
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says he expects “the overall semiconductor shortage will now drift into 2024” due to a lack of manufacturing equipment — - Intel's Pat Gelsinger now expects the semiconductor industry to suffer supply shortages until 2024.| Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: |
Despite SpaceX's global ambitions for Starlink, data shows 98% of users live in the West; many delays come down to regulatory challenges in markets like India — Despite global ambitions, Elon Musk's Starlink struggles to reach users outside North America and Europe.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
RelationalAI, which develops knowledge graphs for data-driven apps, raises a $75M Series B led by Tiger Global and adds ex-Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia to its board — RelationalAI, a startup that wants to change the way data-driven applications are built by combining a database system with a knowledge graph …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Salesforce plans to extend California's Silenced No More Act protections, which limit the scope of NDAs, to all US employees in 2022, after shareholder pressure — Salesforce just became the latest tech giant to commit to limiting the scope of its non-disclosure agreements …
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| Ax Sharma / Wired: |
Hollywood's fight against VPN providers like ExpressVPN now goes beyond piracy, as a recent lawsuit alleges VPNs enable crimes like hacking, murder, and more — Beyond accusations of encouraging copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of illegal activity.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Insider Intelligence: Amazon has the largest market share of US e-commerce at ~39%, but it grew by just 0.2% in 2021 and 2022 so far, the slowest rate in years — Tech giant remains nation's leading online retailer, but signs of weakness have emerged recently
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