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Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that may be ready by the end of 2022; Twitter acquired Vine in 2012 and shut it down in 2016 — Elon Musk has instructed Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that could be ready by year end, multiple sources tell Axios.
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Sources: Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 of his trusted Tesla employees, mostly software engineers from the Autopilot team, to help at Twitter — - Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now sole director and CEO of Twitter, is asking employees of the social network to redesign their subscription and verification systems within one week.
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Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's 7,000+ staff in the coming days — The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce — SAN FRANCISCO — Members of billionaire Elon Musk's inner circle huddled with Twitter's remaining …
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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
SEC filing: Jack Dorsey has agreed to roll over his remaining 2.4% in Twitter, worth over $1B, into X Holdings, an amount Elon Musk won't have to pay — - Dorsey left his second stint as CEO of Twitter last year. — A co-founder of the platform and friend of Musk, he's been supportive of the $44 billion takeover.
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Sources: Apple's VP of online retail Anna Matthiasson is leaving the company, to be replaced by Karen Rasmussen; CIO Mary Demby is retiring after three decades — Apple Inc.'s top executives in charge of its online retail store and information-systems divisions are stepping down …
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Anchorage Digital plans to custody a “significant portion” of Apollo Global's crypto portfolio and offer crypto custody services to Apollo's clients — The private equity giant that manages half a trillion dollars will use Anchorage for institutional crypto custody.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
The FTC accuses homework help app Chegg of security lapses, such as ~40M users' personal info and passwords stolen in 2018; Chegg agrees to boost data security — Chegg, a homework help app, exposed the data of 40 million users, including details about some students' sexual orientation and religion … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Debunking five myths that may be sinking Meta's stock, including claims of Facebook users deserting, Instagram engagement falling, and TikTok dominating — What happened to Meta last week — and my response to it — expressed in meme-form: — In 2018, the market was panicking …
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| Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: |
The world's top 20 tech billionaires have lost $480B+ on paper in 2022; Mark Zuckerberg's wealth dropped by $87B+, and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos lost $58B+ each — Moguls including Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have collectively lost more on paper than the market values of most S&P 500 companies
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Tweets: @robinwauters, @gunnelswarren, @nspector4, @iseff, @owencallan, @steventdennis, and @mattyglesias
| Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
Some Twitter users, concerned about Elon Musk's ownership, are moving to alternative platforms, including Mastodon, which has seen sign-ups surge, and Discord — Discord, Mastodon and other services are bustling as Twitter fans make backup plans for their online social lives.
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Tweets: @stephenking, @massawyrm, @joinmastodon, @joinmastodon, @eschlef, @mer__edith, @r0wdy_, @joinmastodon, @mer__edith, @wongmjane, @wongmjane, @sgirardclos, @joinmastodon, @zeithistoriker, @mjg59, @davewiner, @uint8_t, @r0wdy_, @dsquintana, @blakereid, @wfkars, @patterballs, @decustecu, @norareed, @emptywheel, @hyperbolide, and @1br0wn
| Selina Cheng / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone plant as the company uses harsh lockdown measures to try to contain a weekslong COVID-19 outbreak in a crucial ordering period — As it adheres to Beijing's strict epidemic controls, Apple's biggest smartphone assembler scrambles to keep production lines moving
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Bright Machines, which automates manufacturing tasks with AI and robotics, raised a $100M Series B and $32M in debt after pulling its SPAC deal in December 2021 — In May of last year, Bright Machines announced plans to embrace the SPAC craze with a merger deal that valued the Bay Area-based manufacturing firm at $1.6 billion.| Wall Street Journal: |
TuSimple's board fires CEO Xiaodi Hou after finding that the company shared confidential information with Chinese trucking startup Hydron; the stock drops 44%+ — Self-driving trucking company's leadership faces federal investigations into whether it improperly financed and transferred technology to a Chinese startup
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