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SEC filing: Twitter's lawyers call Elon Musk's deal termination “invalid and wrongful” and say Twitter “breached none of its obligations under the agreement” — Twitter Inc.'s lawyers called Elon Musk's termination of his $44 billion buyout agreement “invalid and wrongful” …
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Twitter employees say it's a “shit show internally”, exasperated by weak leadership and lack of support amid targeted harassment from outside the company — Days after the deal to buy Twitter fell apart, fed-up employees say they are being kept in the dark.
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| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
In an internal post, Meta Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba instructed managers to identify and “move to exit” poor performers — Meta Platforms' Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba has instructed managers to identify and …
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Liquidators say they can't find Three Arrows Capital founders Kyle Davies and Zhu Su, and seek to subpoena them to prevent the dissipation of the fund's assets — The founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital haven't been cooperating in the firm's liquidation process …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The FTC says it will crack down on tech companies' illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data and false claims about data-anonymization — ‘Companies that make false claims about anonymization can expect to hear from the FTC.’ … Lots of websites and apps like to claim your data is …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out its Unmentioning feature to all users on all devices, letting users remove themselves from conversations that include their Twitter handle — Twitter announced today that it's rolling out its “Unmentioning” feature to all users on all devices.| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Report on Apple's eight-year self-driving car struggle as 20 people from the project cite “constantly shifting goals”, a “revolving door of leaders”, and more — The Apple Car project has suffered repeated setbacks throughout its development caused in part by a need …
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YouTube begins rolling out picture-in-picture support for all US iOS users, but says that the feature requires a premium subscription to work with music videos — YouTube today announced that it has begun rolling out picture-in-picture support for all iOS users in the United States …
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Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie — Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Wefox, a Berlin-based digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, raised a $400M Series D at a post-money valuation of $4.5B, up from $3B in 2021 — European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Crypto lender Vauld disclosed a ~$70M shortfall, listing $330M in assets and $400M in liabilities, but says the numbers may not be final as audits are ongoing — - Vauld has disclosed a shortfall of $70 million in a letter to creditors. — The firm has also listed multiple other plans if its deal with Nexo doesn't go through.| Reuters: |
STMicro and GlobalFoundries plan to build a €5.7B chip factory in France with full capacity by 2026, with “significant” funding from the French government — Chipmakers STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) announced plans on Monday to build a semiconductor factory in France …
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