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| The Verge: |
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum — Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.
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| AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast: |
Sources: Twitter has disabled badge access and shut down its offices until November 21, after a large number of employees chose to resign on Thursday — The temporary closure of the company's offices comes as the billionaire is reportedly “terrified employees are going to sabotage the company.”
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BBC, Insider, and The Verge
Tweets: @zoeschiffer, @zoeschiffer, @anothercohen, @imani_barbarin, @esqueer_, @paulskallas, @minimaxir, and @minimaxir
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk softens his remote work stance and tries to convince colleagues to stay, as more than anticipated opt to leave ahead of his 5pm ET deadline — Elon Musk gave Twitter Inc. employees an ultimatum to either commit to the company's new “hardcore” work environment or leave.
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
Filings: FTX CEO John Ray III, who ran Enron's bankruptcy process, slams SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls” — The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.
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| Tracy Alloway / Bloomberg: |
The wildest parts of FTX's bankruptcy filing: its token holdings are worth $659K, Alameda loaned SBF $3.3B, SBF auto-deleted messages about decisions, and more — Lawyers for the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX filed today in Delaware, asking a federal judge to transfer a competing bankruptcy case filed …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the layoffs will continue into 2023, after the company cut roles across its Devices and Books businesses on Wednesday — KEY POINTS — Amazon will continue to lay off employees in the coming year, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to workers on Thursday.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
An update to the About Twitter Blue page shows accounts less than 90 days old won't be able to sign up when the service relaunch, presumably on November 29 — Twitter won't let accounts less than 90 days old sign up for its Blue subscription service when it relaunches (presumably on the 29th) … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A Twitter HQ seating chart shows Elon Musk's top five special projects: Blue verified, Blue for business, encrypted DMs, tips on tweets, and longform notes — After demanding the remaining Twitter employees pledge their loyalty, Musk's product priorities are coming into focus — I. Extremely hardcore
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @zoeschiffer, @mattnavarra, @carnage4life, and @strngwys
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank close to $5B due to its growing losses; his stake in the Vision Fund 2 is worthless, down from $2.8B in 2021 — Market crash also wipes out value of Japanese founder's stake in second Vision Fund — Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank close … | Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Facebook plans to remove religious views, political views, addresses, and “Interested in”, which indicates sexual preference, from user profiles on December 1 — The update to the world's biggest social network will prevent you from broadcasting certain details in your bio, a farewell to the early days of social media.
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Tweets: @mattnavarra, @caseynewton, @thedylanhafer, and @blakersdozen
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has fired or disciplined over 24 employees and contractors over the past year for allegedly taking over user accounts, in some cases for bribes — Some workers allegedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes — Meta Platforms Inc. META -2.31%decrease …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google announces updates to Search, to help users find dishes near them, Maps, with an expanded Live View, and Shopping, adding AR tools for makeup matching — Google announced today that it's introducing a slew of new Maps, Search and Shopping features. The company revealed majority … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta launches its company directory on WhatsApp's Business Platform in Brazil, the UK, Indonesia, Mexico, and Colombia after a September 2021 pilot in São Paulo — WhatsApp is officially launching a new business directory feature across Brazil, the UK, Indonesia, Mexico, and Colombia.
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Tweets: @metanewsroom, @nickclegg, and @iansherr
| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
US House Select Subcommittee investigation: ID.me made “baseless claims” of COVID-19 unemployment fraud “to increase demand” for its ID verification services — A seven month-long investigation accuses the biometric firm of providing misleading figures …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: in May 2022, Google asked managers to categorize 6% of employees, or ~10,000 people, as low performers under its new review system, up from 2% before — As layoffs spread across Silicon Valley, Google has stood out by not cutting employees so far.
Tweets: @joshuaogundu, @jessicalessin, and @aparanjape
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
1Password unveils “passkey” support for secure user logins to apps, and says it will work across platforms, including iOS and Android, coming in early 2023 — When Apple and Google announced their passwordless login systems earlier this year, they glossed over one major problem … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok begins testing its research API, announced in July, with members of its Content and Safety Advisory Councils, and is working on a content moderation API — Earlier this year, TikTok announced that it's developing a research API to improve access to public and anonymized data about content and activity on its app.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Congress, slow to pass legislation and offer clear regulations on crypto, wakes up to FTX's collapse as lawmakers wonder if they could have prevented the crisis — The stunning collapse of the world's third-largest exchange has forced politicians to grapple with the costs of legislative inaction
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| David Simmons / Business News Australia: |
Sydney-based Advanced Navigation, a developer of AI robotics and navigation technology, raised a $68M Series B led by KKR, bringing its total funding to $85M+ — Moon-bound artificial intelligence robotics and navigation company Advanced Navigation has today announced the signing … | Sam Goldfarb / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase's stock is down ~80% in 2022, shrinking its market cap from $81B at its IPO to ~$11B, as the broader crypto market drops and investors lose confidence — Prices of exchange's bonds and stock reflect anxieties after collapse of rival FTX and sharp declines in bitcoin
Tweets: @nina_trentmann and @jessefelder
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
An analysis of 22K US broadband bills shows issues like a higher average cost than in Europe at ~$75/month, most have no carrier choice, bogus charges, and more — The Verge and Consumer Reports collected 22,000 internet bills to find out how Americans are getting online. They paint an ugly picture.
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Tweets: @mikeddano, @meghann, @russellbrandom, @karlbode, and @mollymckew
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sources: Palo Alto Networks plans to acquire Cider Security, which helps identify security risks in DevOps pipelines, for $200M in cash and $100M in stock — The startup, which develops an AppSec operating system, will receive $200 million in cash and $100 million in Palo Alto stockSponsor Posts
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