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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired — Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering taking away its verified users' badges if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue — Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification — Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay to remain verified …
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| Washington Post: |
Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's 7,000+ staff in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety — The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce — SAN FRANCISCO …
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| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
Twitter faces ~$1B per year in interest expenses after Elon Musk's deal added ~$13B in debt, up from ~$50M in 2021 when operations generated ~$633M in cash flow — Mr. Musk faces financial challenges in owning Twitter. The site frequently loses money and took on $13 billion in debt for the blockbuster deal.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources detail the twists and turns in Elon Musk's $44B Twitter takeover, starting in late March 2022, falling apart in July, and closing late on October 27 — Even as his $44bn buyout came down to the wire, Elon Musk kept Twitter guessing. — Normally, lawyers and advisers on each side …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @sriramk, @alexeheath, @nickrw, @alexeheath, @joshelman, @mniehaus, and @dansaltzstein
| Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: |
The world's top 20 tech billionaires have lost $480B+ on paper in 2022; Mark Zuckerberg's wealth dropped by $87B+, and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos lost $58B+ each — Moguls including Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have collectively lost more on paper than the market values of most S&P 500 companies
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| Selina Cheng / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone plant as the company uses harsh lockdown measures to try to contain a weekslong COVID-19 outbreak in a crucial ordering period — As it adheres to Beijing's strict epidemic controls, Apple's biggest smartphone assembler scrambles to keep production lines moving
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
The FTC accuses homework help app Chegg of security lapses, such as ~40M users' personal info and passwords stolen in 2018; Chegg agrees to boost data security — Chegg, a homework help app, exposed the data of 40 million users, including details about some students' sexual orientation and religion …
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Tweets: @frankcatalano and @natashanyt
| Wall Street Journal: |
TuSimple's board fires CEO Xiaodi Hou after finding that the company shared confidential information with Chinese trucking startup Hydron; the stock drops 44%+ — Self-driving trucking company's leadership faces federal investigations into whether it improperly financed and transferred technology to a Chinese startup
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Tweets: @niubi, @john__rosevear, and @byron_wan
| Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
Some Twitter users, concerned about Elon Musk's ownership, are moving to alternative platforms, including Mastodon, which has seen sign-ups surge, and Discord — Discord, Mastodon and other services are bustling as Twitter fans make backup plans for their online social lives.
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Tweets: @joinmastodon, @joinmastodon, @joinmastodon, @mer__edith, @sgirardclos, @joinmastodon, @zeithistoriker, @mjg59, @davewiner, @uint8_t, @dsquintana, @1br0wn, and @blakereid
| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
The Reserve Bank of India plans to begin testing its CBDC on November 1, with nine banks participating, and a retail version in select locations within a month — A pilot for a retail version will start within a month. — India's central bank will introduce a pilot wholesale central bank digital currency …
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Reuters, Moneycontrol, Cointelegraph, BGR India, The Indian Express, and The Economic Times
| The Intercept: |
An investigation details the US DHS' ongoing plans to police misinformation on COVID-19, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and more; Meta built a portal to flag content — The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found.
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