Twitter appears to roll out its new Blue subscription, offering a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK
Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.
Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly”, amid mass layoffs; Twitter's headcount grew from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021
- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …
Hands-on with Matter devices at an official launch event; Matter has a long way to go before it delivers on a promise of an interoperable and simple smart home
At the official launch event for Matter this week, I saw a lot of exciting things: a Google Nest Hub controlling an Eve Energy smart plug …
Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff
Hi 👋 - Third quarter earnings show that big tech … Rise & Shine ☀ : Twitter Layoffs: The lawsuit and Fears of misinformation Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media : Musk & Mayhem @Twitter Kristin Majcher /...
Google Cloud says it is running a Solana validator and is indexing Solana data for BigQuery, will add Solana support to Blockchain Node Engine in 2023, and more
Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at around $36.80 at time of publication.
Source: Apple is working on simplifying the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri” and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services
Apple is working on a project to simplify the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri.”
Elon Musk says Twitter plans to add the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, creator monetization for all forms of content, and better search
Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots
The US DOJ seizes internet domains for Z-Library, a repository that went viral on TikTok for offering 11M+ books, including pirated textbooks, and 84M articles
Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service.
A Twitter product lead says the new Blue subscription isn't live yet, but some users may see updates “because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time”
Just days after newly minted Twitter CEO Elon Musk floated changes to Twitter's system for verifying user accounts …
The most efficient bitcoin mining machines are selling for ~$24 per 100 terahashes, down from $106 in 2021, as unprofitable miners are forced to sell equipment
Unprofitable miners have become forced sellers of their own crypto equipment — There's a fire sale on bitcoin-mining hardware.
A look at Twitter's chaotic first week under Elon Musk, who is acting like a poker player on tilt trying too hard to get his money back all at once
Well, Elon's first week running Twitter has gone worse than I expected. I said last week that I thought the platform would be pretty …
Sources: 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine went offline as SpaceX and the US DoD negotiate funding despite Elon Musk claiming the company will continue “for free”
Smartex, whose machine vision-based software spots defects in textile manufacturing, raised a $24.7M Series A led by Lightspeed, Tony Fadell's Build Collective
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Amazon, BurgerFi, Chili's, and other companies are ending or rethinking delivery and restaurant robot trials, unable to balance their costs against usefulness
In retail, fast food and delivery, robots with names like Roxo, Rita and Scout have delivered mixed, sometimes quirky results, at costs some companies find too high. Tweets: @rakeshlobster Tweets: Rak...
OpenSecrets: the crypto industry gave $73M in the 2022 US midterms, up from $13M in 2020; FTX has become the third-largest source of 2022 campaign contributions
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French startup Fintecture, which helps companies digitize their B2B payments, has raised a €26M Series A from Target Global, Eurazeo, RTP Global, and others
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Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy says the company will cut back on dealmaking and hiring as losses mount, amid fierce competition from Amazon and Reliance
CEO Krishnamurthy insists country's ecommerce sector remains ‘vibrant’ — Flipkart's chief executive says the Walmart-owned ecommerce group …
Source: NSO Group, which has ~$400M in debt, cut 15% of its workforce and raised prices by ~20% after a potential sale to defense contractor L3Harris collapsed
Bloomberg : Tweets: @jeffstone500 Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : spyware vendor NSO Group cuts staff, raises prices by 15% in the face of the US blacklist, per @ElizaHannon @dscigliuzzo also: I...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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