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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 workforce 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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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Elon Musk directed Twitter executives to quietly change the homepage for logged out users to the Explore page, instead of a sign-up form, on October 28 — On his first day, Twitter's new ‘Chief Twit’ quietly changed the homepage to send a message.
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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 March, falling apart, and then 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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| Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: |
The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480B+ on paper in the past year; Mark Zuckerberg's wealth drops by $87B+, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos by $58B+ — 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 grapples with a weekslong COVID-19 outbreak during a critical period, leading to harsh lockdown measures — As it adheres to Beijing's strict epidemic controls, Apple's biggest smartphone assembler scrambles to keep production lines moving
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Twitter's head of safety and integrity says the service has not changed content policies but was subjected to “an organized effort to make people think we have” — Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in ‘organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy’| Rachel Sharp / The Independent: |
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| Justin Ling / Wired: |
Doreen Bogdan-Martin's election to the UN's ITU, beating the Russian candidate, signals support for a US-backed open internet, but significant issues remain — Open-internet advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a recent election for the International Telecommunications Union's top leadership.
Tweets: @justin_ling
| 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 by the end of November — A pilot for a retail version will start within a month. — India's central bank will introduce a pilot wholesale central bank digital currency … | Khari Johnson / Wired: |
An interview with Gerard de Graaf, the director of a new EU office in San Francisco, on the DMA coming into force on November 1 and its impact on tech companies — The Digital Markets Act will force big tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU's new ambassador to Silicon Valley.
Tweets: @tariqkrim
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple faces US federal probes into whether it improperly financed and transferred tech to a Chinese startup — Government authorities are investigating whether the U.S. self-driving trucking company defrauded investors by financing and transferring technology to China-backed Hydron
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