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Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship — Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @watcherguru, @elonmusk, @tszzl, @elonmusk, @faizsays, @ggreenwald, @ct_bergstrom, @lib_crusher, @howardlindzon, @mmasnick, @wajahatali, @therealhoarse, @jay_jaffe, @karlbode, @codinghorror, @timsweeneyepic, @fmanjoo, @gsterling, @owillis, @frankconniff, @benedictevans, @machineiv, @ijbailey, @kurtwagner8, @westcoastbill, @tomcoates, @carnage4life, @patrickw, @lbrycom, @alexeheath, @nickstatt, @gruber, @mollyjongfast, @sarafischer, @markgurman, @benedictevans, @elonmusk, @pkafka, @owillis, @esqueer_, @walshfreedom, @jdan, @jake_k, @divestech, @gorskon, @vaushv, @kantrowitz, @donie, @mzhemingway, @ashtonpittman, @steinkobbe, @kantrowitz, @lib_crusher, @travisallen02, @alexeheath, @internethippo, @mattgertz, @kellymakena, @kurtwagner8, @forever_wario, @liz_wheeler, @wallstreetsilv, @willoremus, @kevinmkruse, and @hsajwanization
| Financial Times: |
Source: Musk sought to call some brands' CEOs to berate them for advertising less on Twitter; others lowered spend to the minimum needed to avoid confrontation — Top brands abandon social media platform as billionaire owner berates chief executives who have curbed spending
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AppleInsider, USA Today, @zachsdorfman@infosec.exchange, @mattblaze@federate.social, Quartz, SlashGear, and The Register
Tweets: @elonmusk, @mshannahmurphy, @steve_vladeck, @scottnover, @pkafka, @sruhle, @carnage4life, @danprimack, @gergelyorosz, @jessehawken, @nsardi, @nelson, @patrickmcgee_, and @justicar
| Washington Post:NEW |
Source: in Q1 2022, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48M and accounting for over 4% of Twitter's revenue that quarter — In a series of tweets, the billionaire says Apple also has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter — Elon Musk on Monday went on a tear against Apple …
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Daring Fireball, The Hill, AppleInsider, and SlashGear
Tweets: @andrewmartonik, @howardlindzon, and @jamesrbuk
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team — For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated
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CNN, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, The Verge, Newser, MobileSyrup, The Guardian, Engadget, The Independent, Insider, New York Post, WinBuzzer, PCMag, Gizmodo, and Neowin
Tweets: @airmovingdevice, @josephmenn, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @manyapan, @donie, @darickr, @elonmusk, @anthony, @paulmozur, @rchoongwilkins, @airmovingdevice, @charityw4cti, @melissajpeltier, @jamesbazan, @evacide, @arawnsley, @thocpodcast, @venkatananth, @martinsfp, @revhowardarson, @airmovingdevice, @paulmozur, @aidanpobrien, @golikehellmachi, @ronfilipkowski, @maphumanintent, @maphumanintent, @airmovingdevice, @oknox, @dominiksteiger, @jsrailton, @rachel_cheung1, @josephmenn, @carnage4life, @a_picazo, @kemc, @bfriedmandc, @frydave, @airmovingdevice, and @airmovingdevice
| Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images — Protesters are using few or no words in public and online demonstrations to speak out against Beijing's zero-Covid policies
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Tweets: @eefjerammeloo, @emilyzfeng, @ajitpai, @ywnreporter, @sheenagreitens, @thestalwart, @moraitakis, @newley, @stephenmcdonell, @mbrookerhk, @brendannyhan, @lukedepulford, @peterfrankopan, @sheenagreitens, @jchengwsj, @lizalinwsj, @reuters, @sentdefender, @lizalinwsj, @nycjim, @_karenhao, @uyghurspeaker, @jean_leroux, @bbcworld, @phoebe_kongwy, @replisamcclain, @danaihoward, @jonschweppe, @palkisu, @phoebe_kongwy, and @jchengwsj
| Decrypt: |
BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New Jersey, plans to lay off a large portion of its staff, and says it has $256.9M cash on hand — The FTX contagion has just claimed another crypto firm. … The crypto lender is also laying off a large portion of its staff, the source said.
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Tweets: @tier10k, @jacqmelinek, @tier10k, @colin_gladman, @kadhim, @silvermanjacob, @davidgerard, @tier10k, @silvermanjacob, @0xfoobar, @kadhim, @fintechfrank, @mhonkasalo, @petition, @digitalassetbuy, @silvermanjacob, @cryptorca, @tier10k, @levie, @nerdnationunbox, @cmsholdings, @asvanevik, @zerohedge, @grdecter, @ivanthek, @fintechfrank, @dogetoshi, @tier10k, @boxmining, @silvermanjacob, @0xfoobar, @bullchain, @w7voa, @petition, @convertbond, @deitaone, @deitaone, and @jeffseibert
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fines Meta €265M for failing to safeguard data on 500M+ users from data scrapers, the third fine by the DPC on Meta — Company gets new EU privacy fine as bloc tightens regulation of big tech companies — A top European regulator fined Facebook …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Source: turmoil at Foxconn's Zhengzhou hub is likely to lower iPhone 14 Pro production by close to 6M units in 2022, potentially worsening if lockdowns continue — Turmoil at Apple Inc.'s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou is likely to result in a production shortfall of close …
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South China Morning Post, Gizmodo, CNBC, CNN, Fortune, Protocol, Observer, Financial Times, CNET, New York Times, Softpedia News, Politico, City A.M., New York Post, The Week, BBC, Light Reading, 9to5Mac, iMore, MacDailyNews, BGR, Coinspeaker, CNBC, Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, Beyond Search, and TechSpot
Tweets: @nytimes, @pelstrom, @zartechnical, @profdaveandress, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, and @carnage4life
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Microsoft will likely soon offer the EU concessions regarding the Activision deal; source: the main remedy would be a 10-year licensing deal to Sony — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is likely to offer remedies to EU antitrust regulators in the coming weeks to stave off formal objections …
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GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, CNET, Kotaku, TechSpot, Neowin, GameSpot, FOSS Patents, Wccftech, Gameranx, OnMSFT.com, and Appuals.com
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp begins rolling out a Message Yourself feature, letting users send notes, reminders, and shopping lists to themselves — WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself. Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible …
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Social Media Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, SlashGear, BGR India, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, Livemint, Engadget, and GSMArena.com
Tweets: @amirmizroch and @tuviae
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Figma's CFO on how they built a $20B business with data — From Series B to acquisition, Figma needed Census to scale their business operations on top of their data warehouse.
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| New York Times: |
Yahoo takes a ~25% stake in Taboola and plans to use Taboola's ad tech as part of a 30-year exclusive deal expected to generate $1B+ in annual revenue — Yahoo's chief executive sees the deal as a long-term bet on digital advertising. The companies estimate that their ad partnership will generate $1 billion annually.
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Search Engine Land, MarTech, Yahoo Finance, The Information, TechCrunch, and Reuters
Tweets: @rsingel, @jlanzone, @alex, @benmullin, and @astaniscia86
| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
EU lawmakers claim the Markets in Crypto Assets rules, expected to be approved in 2023, would prevent an FTX-like crash, but some say the proposal needs updates — The cryptocurrency world is reeling after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX — but EU policymakers are patting themselves on the back.
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Cointelegraph, The Block, CoinDesk, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @krugermacro, @elinecmc, and @mayazi
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: between Q1 2019 and this fall, Alphabet's Google Cloud, hardware unit, and YouTube have roughly doubled headcount, as the total employee count grew ~80% — Alphabet has doubled the headcount in its Google Cloud unit since early 2019, according to data obtained by The Information, outstripping Alphabet's overall hiring growth.
Tweets: @theinformation and @coryweinberg
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Figma's CFO on how they built a $20B business with data — From Series B to acquisition, Figma needed Census to scale their business operations on top of their data warehouse.
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