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Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a tweet — Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at a document from Twitter's trust and safety team on November 1 detailing how the Blue subscription could be abused, largely ignored in a rush to launch — Employees and advertisers keep warning him about the risks of changes he's making to Twitter — but he's not listening
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Source: Twitter no longer fulfills obligations for claiming Ireland as its “main establishment” under the EU's GDPR, after security and privacy executives left — Next stop: Regulatory hell? — Helmed by erratic new owner Elon Musk, Twitter is no longer fulfilling key obligations required …
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| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
Document: GroupM warns clients Twitter is a “high risk” media buy due to senior executive resignations, Blue check abuse, and possible consent decree violations — The public boycott of advertising on Twitter is starting to look a lot like a long goodbye.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of FTX's nightmare balance sheet and Serum, an FTX-created coin and protocol, marked as the largest “deliverable” asset at ~$5.4B before November 8 — The box — There is so much, but I want to start with Serum. — If a troubled company has a few days …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: Amazon plans to cut ~10,000 corporate and tech jobs, or ~3% of its corporate staff and the largest cuts in its history, starting as soon as this week — The job cuts of approximately 10,000, which would start as soon as this week, would focus on the company's devices organization, retail division and human resources.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Google agrees to a record $391.5M privacy settlement with 40 state AGs over charges the company misled users into thinking they had disabled location tracking — Under the agreement, which state attorneys general said was the largest U.S. internet privacy settlement, Google must …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches a preview of Supply Chain Center, a command center to help monitor supply chains with data from Oracle, SAP, and others, and its own tools — Microsoft Corp. unveiled software that will help customers track and coordinate supply-chain systems by combining data … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft publishes its first Xbox transparency report on content moderation, revealing the company took action against 4.3M+ inauthentic accounts in H1 2022 — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox released its first transparency report on Monday, detailing how the gaming giant moderates its 3 billion global players.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Health Connect in beta on the Play Store with partners including Peloton, Oura, Flo, MyFitnessPal, and Samsung, after months in “early access” — Google announced Health Connect in May at I/O 2022, and recent months have seen more apps support it.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
In a Twitter Space, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the crypto exchange has seen a “slight increase in withdrawals” but otherwise “it's still business as usual” — - Binance has seen a “slight increase in withdrawals,” said CEO Changpeng Zhao Monday …
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Tweets: @binance, @ryan_browne_, and @erickschonfeld
| Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: |
Nike announces virtual sneaker store and trading platform .SWOOSH and plans to launch its first collection in January 2023; registrations open on November 18 — Nike Inc. is opening an online store and trading platform for virtual sneakers as management pumps investment into the metaverse.
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