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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Twitter emailed staff to say layoffs begin on Friday with a “Your Role at Twitter” email to their company account if they're employed and their personal if not — Employees said the layoffs came across teams, as Twitter broadly reduced its workforce.
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Twitter workers file a class-action lawsuit against the company in San Francisco for mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days' notice, per the WARN Act — Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk's plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform — half of its workforce …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter's teams to find up to $1B in annual infrastructure cost savings, including reduced spending on cloud services and server space — Elon Musk has directed Twitter Inc's teams to find up to $1 billion in annual infrastructure cost savings, according …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Sources: Twitter staff have yet to receive a single official message since Elon Musk took over, relying instead on his tweets, media reports, and private chats — Workers follow new boss's tweets and share rumors on anonymous apps amid silence from leadership on firings, staff cuts and product changes.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk is weighing adding paid DMs to let users privately message “Very Important Tweeters”; docs: Twitter Blue checks won't require ID verification — The billionaire and his advisers have discussed adding paid direct messages, fees to watch videos and other features to the service.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter plans to shut down newsletter platform Revue, acquired in January 2021, by the end of 2022, and has paused its four-month-old Notes product — A new Vine camera is in. Notes and Revue are out — With massive layoffs expected to hit Twitter tomorrow …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
General Mills and Audi paused Twitter ads, and sources say Pfizer and Mondelez have as well, as concern over content moderation grows — Advertisers are concerned about a flurry of executive departures at Twitter and new owner Elon Musk's plans for content moderation
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon pauses hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, after announcing in October plans to freeze hiring for corporate roles in its retail business — KEY POINTS — Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, the company announced in a memo to staff Thursday.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Momento, which offers a “serverless cache” optimized for cloud computing that it claims developers can add with ~5 lines of code, exits stealth with a $15M seed — After working at NASA as a rover roboticist, Khawaja Shams underwent something of a career pivot …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft plans to cut 13% of its 5,000+ employees, or nearly 700 jobs, due to “a probable recession”, after laying off 60 people, or under 2% of staff, in July 2022 — Ride-hailing company, which is cutting 13% of staff, maintained its earnings outlook
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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Q3: net revenue down 28% QoQ to $576M, net loss down 50% QoQ to $545M, subscription and services up 43% QoQ, and monthly transacting users down to 8.5M — The crypto exchange's transaction revenue fell 44% from the second quarter. — Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple paused hiring in October for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and standard hardware and software engineering roles — Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Atlassian reports Q1 revenue up 31% YoY to $807.4M, vs. $806.4M est., and forecasts lower than expected Q2 revenue; stock drops 20%+ after falling 54% in 2022 — - Atlassian's quarterly revenue outlook missed expectations. — The software maker said existing customers are adding users at a reduced pace.
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| The Verge: |
AMD unveils the RX 7900 XTX for $999 and the lower powered RX 7900 XT for $899, its first GPUs built on its RDNA 3 chiplet architecture, shipping on December 13 — AMD has announced its next generation of graphics cards, the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, which are the first cards powered by its new architecture, RDNA 3.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
PayPal plans to support iPhone's Tap to Pay in its PayPal and Venmo iOS apps “soon”, add Apple Pay to its checkout options on merchant platforms, and more — The PayPal and Venmo iOS apps will soon offer Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone functionality, allowing merchants that use PayPal …
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| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Stripe plans to lay off 14% of its staff this week, reducing its headcount by 1,000+ to almost 7,000, to trim expenses in preparation for “leaner times” — Stripe Inc., one of the world's most valuable startups, will cut more than 1,000 jobs as it seeks to rein in costs ahead of any economic downturn.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google unveils an AI model trained on 400+ languages with the largest “coverage seen in a speech model” and plans to support the 1,000 most spoken languages — Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world's “1,000 most spoken languages.”| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Block Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $4.52B, vs. $4.49B est., gross profit up 38% YoY to $1.57B, vs. $1.53B est., and Cash App gross profit up 51% YoY; stock up 12%+ — - Block stock rose in extended trading after the payments company reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations for profit.
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases a DALL-E API in public beta, letting developers integrate DALL-E into their apps and products; the API is priced per image output, based on size — Get ready, developers: Today, OpenAI released the hotly anticipated DALL-E API in public beta, which means developers … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Combined capital spending by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft grew 32% in 2021, same as in 2020, to $140B, and 20% in the first nine months of 2022 — Companies are not going to let up spending despite weakening economy — Investors have grown accustomed to periodic leaps … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon says 230,000 people joined its open-source decentralized social network in the past week and the service has hit a record 655,000 active users — Open-source, decentralized social network Mastodon has been benefiting from the chaotic Twitter takeover by Elon Musk.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon plans to roll out the Matter over Wi-Fi standard to 17 Echo devices in December, starting with Android phones, covering smart plugs, bulbs, and switches — Amazon will start its Matter journey slowly, bringing support for the new smart home standard to 17 Echo devices in December.
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