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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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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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| 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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| 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) …
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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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| 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
| 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 …
Tweets: @bondhack and @carlquintanilla
| 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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Tweets: @concodanomics, @cgasparino, @adamscochran, @robblackwellab, @sentoomey, @sambrodey, @crewcrew, @senwarren, @mikemadden, @zachary, @hshaban, @matthewstoller, @adamscochran, @johnedeaton1, @rwpusa, @nkulw, @jenniferisms, @tonyromm, @tonyromm, @cryptolawus, @zachary, @tonyromm, @adamscochran, and @jason_howerton
| 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
| 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 … | 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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| 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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Washington Post, CR Advocacy, GovTech, Consumer Reports, and Protocol
Tweets: @mikeddano, @meghann, @russellbrandom, and @karlbode
| 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.| 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
| 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
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Microsoft rolls out Discord voice chat integration to all Xbox users after an Insiders test; PlayStation will reportedly get deeper Discord integration in 2023 — Microsoft is now rolling out the Xbox November update, which includes a heap of useful features.
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Xbox Wire, XDA Developers, GameSpot, KnowTechie, OnMSFT.com, and Mashable
| Adam Cochran / @adamscochran: |
[Thread] A timeline of FTX's meltdown, starting from September 30: SBF's jab at CZ, CoinDesk's article, CZ sells FTT, “FTX is fine”, Alameda woes, and more — 1/82 I'll be pinning this detailed timeline, as my final piece covering this topic, as now the case is closed in my mind. This was a crime plain and simple and I'll put no more wind in this criminals sails: FTX: Meltdown. The definitive and chronological thread.
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Sources: SoftBank sells a 4.5% stake in Paytm, or 29.35M shares, for $200M, causing Paytm stock to drop 10%+; Vision Fund was Paytm's second-largest shareholder — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) on Thursday sold a 4.5% stake in Indian digital payments giant Paytm (PAYT.NS) … | 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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