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Elon Musk takes over Twitter and fires several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and legal policy, trust, and safety head Vijaya Gadde — Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night — Elon Musk became Twitter's owner late Thursday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Elon Musk plans to become Twitter's CEO, but may cede the role in the longer term — Elon Musk plans to assume the role of chief executive officer at Twitter Inc. after completing his $44 billion acquisition, taking the helm of the social media giant on top of leading Tesla Inc. and SpaceX.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Elon Musk takes Twitter private, merging the company with X Holdings, delisting from NYSE, dissolving the board, and moving to cash-based employee compensation — The social media company went public in 2013. But Elon Musk is taking it private as part of his acquisition of the firm.
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| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: with Elon Musk cleaning out Twitter's executive ranks, CEO Parag Agrawal is eligible to receive ~$50M, CFO Ned Segal $37M, and Vijaya Gadde $17M — Three of Twitter Inc.'s top executives who were said to be fired after Elon Musk completed his takeover are poised to collect …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
“Welcome to hell, Elon”: Musk won't be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without enormous compromises and realizing that content moderation is the product — You break it, you buy it. … Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself …
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech — The very first hours of Musk's stewardship of Twitter have been dominated by users relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets.
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts — Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A look at the Qualcomm-Arm legal dispute, as Qualcomm claims Arm plans to stop licensing its CPUs to chip companies after 2024 and only license to device makers — No More External GPU, NPU, or ISP's Allowed In Arm-Based SOCs — The Qualcomm-Arm saga is epic and there is a new massive update in the case.| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has awarded researchers nearly $20M, including 20 rewards of $100K+ each for high-impact issues, since opening its bug bounty program in December 2019 — Along with announcing its new Lockdown Mode feature this past summer, the company mentioned an upgraded bounty program, a donation to fund ethical security research, and more.
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz is an investor in Android founder Andy Rubin's new hardware startup Simple Things and Marc Andreessen sits on the board — Reed is Semafor's Technology Editor, joining us from the Washington Post. Sign up for the Semafor Tech newsletter to get his scoops …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Responding to user feedback, YouTube splits videos into three tabs on channel pages: Videos, Shorts, and Live, rolling out to all users in the weeks ahead — YouTube is rolling out a change impacting how videos appear on its platform. The company today announced a redesign …
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| Apple: |
Apple reports record Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $90.1B, net income up 1% YoY to $20.7B, and annual revenue up 8% YoY to $394.3B; stock is up 6%+ — September quarter record for Revenue and EPS — Active installed base of devices reaches all-time high for all major product categories
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Earnings from Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Intel, and others signal the tech boom is over, as inflation, lower demand, and interest rates weigh on results — Tech giants embark on belt tightening to ease investor concerns over slowing growth — A week of earnings by big technology companies …
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| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Twitter confirms the company shut down its Ticketed Spaces test indefinitely before Elon Musk's takeover — Before Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, the company paused paid tickets to its live audio feature Spaces, the social network confirmed. “We've paused the Ticketed Spaces test indefinitely … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q3 advertising services revenue grew 25% YoY to $9.55B, vs. $9.48B est., and subscription services revenue grew 9% YoY to $8.9B — - Amazon reported third-quarter results on Thursday that missed analysts' estimates. — It also gave a disappointing sales forecast for the fourth quarter.| Amazon: |
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