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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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| Washington Post: |
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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| 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| 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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| Financial Times: |
BlockFi sues Sam Bankman-Fried's Emergent Fidelity Technologies to seize Robinhood shares that SBF had pledged as collateral under an agreement on November 9 — Complaint against FTX founder comes as crypto company becomes the latest to seek bankruptcy protection
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| Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: |
Apple Watch Ultra and Oceanic+ review by a scuba diver: user interface and screen are better than other dive computers, but misses some high-end features — In short: dive computer makers should be worried — In September, Apple launched the Apple Watch Ultra, which is not only waterproof to 100 meters …
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| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
Sources: Twitter has one staffer left on a team dedicated to removing CSAM after layoffs, despite Elon Musk saying “removing child exploitation is priority #1” — Just one person remains to enforce the company's ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.
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| Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter begins reinstating ~62K accounts with more than 10K followers after Elon Musk's poll on general amnesty; one account has over 5M followers — They're skeptical of their workers, too. PLUS: New details on Musk's ‘general amnesty’ for banned Twitter users — and Zoë Schiffer
Tweets: @caseynewton, @swombat, @caseynewton, @kept_simple, @kurtwagner8, and @nkulw
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Evan Spiegel told Snap employees that he expects them to be in the company's offices 80% of the time, or four or more days a week, starting February 2023 — Snap Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel told employees that he expects them to be in the social media company's offices … | 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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Game Rant, Kotaku, Windows Central, TheGamer, TechSpot, Gamereactor UK, GamesIndustry.biz, GameSpot, Game Developer, Neowin, FOSS Patents, Wccftech, and Pure Xbox
| Bloomberg: |
AWS announces a new Graviton3E chip for high-performance computing tasks like weather forecasting and gene sequencing, competing with Intel, Nvidia, and others — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing …
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TechCrunch, The Register, AWS News Blog, and AWS News Blog
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
The FTC and seven US states settle with Google and iHeartMedia, requiring the companies to pay $9.4M for allegedly paying radio hosts for deceptive Pixel 4 ads — Google and iHeartMedia are settling with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and seven state attorneys general for allegedly paying radio hosts …
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