Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet
Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.
Apple plans to expand Emergency SOS via Satellite to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December, after launching the service in the US and Canada
The iPhone 14 lineup's Emergency SOS via satellite and Find My via satellite features will launch in four additional countries next month, Apple today announced.
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried has unsuccessfully continued to attempt to raise $8B to plug FTX's shortfall, despite filing for bankruptcy and resigning as CEO
Alongside a few remaining employees, Mr. Bankman-Fried spent the weekend calling around in search of new commitments from investors
The New York Times' bizarre SBF profile presents the disgraced founder through a gauzy lens, fails to challenge him, and gives him the benefit of the doubt
FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving reasonable people to wonder how a cryptocurrency platform founded in 2019 …
Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III appoints new directors, discloses conversations with “dozens” of regulators, and estimates creditors at over 1M
FTX filed its first substantive look at the exchange's bankruptcy process days after declaring bank
A look at a document from Twitter's trust and safety team on November 1 detailing how the Blue subscription could be abused, largely ignored in a rush to launch
Employees and advertisers keep warning him about the risks of changes he's making to Twitter — but he's not listening
Hands-on with Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite, rolling out now: the feature works well, texting via satellite takes a while, and users should try the demo
You don't have to hold your arm up to get a signal, though there is a lot of turning around and waiting when trying to connect to satellites.
An analysis of FTX's nightmare balance sheet and Serum, an FTX-created coin and protocol, marked as the largest “deliverable” asset at ~$5.4B before November 8
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Nvidia RTX 4080 review: great 4K performance, transformative DLSS 3, and 16GB of VRAM, but huge, expensive, and the dongle adapter is annoying
Nvidia is back with another new 40-series card. The RTX 4080 can deliver impressive 4K gaming compared to the RTX 30-series.
Microsoft publishes its first Xbox transparency report on content moderation, revealing the company took action against 4.3M+ inauthentic accounts in H1 2022
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox released its first transparency report on Monday, detailing how the gaming giant moderates its 3 billion global players.
Document: GroupM warns clients Twitter is a “high risk” media buy due to senior executive resignations, Blue check abuse, and possible consent decree violations
The public boycott of advertising on Twitter is starting to look a lot like a long goodbye.
Nike announces virtual sneaker store and trading platform .SWOOSH and plans to launch its first collection in January 2023; registrations open on November 18
Nike Inc. is opening an online store and trading platform for virtual sneakers as management pumps investment into the metaverse.
[Thread] Sources: ~20 Twitter employees who criticized Elon Musk in Twitter's Slack channels were fired overnight via email
NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter's Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they're being told o...
Microsoft launches a preview of Supply Chain Center, a command center to help monitor supply chains with data from Oracle, SAP, and others, and its own tools
Microsoft Corp. unveiled software that will help customers track and coordinate supply-chain systems by combining data …
Amazon launches Amazon Clinic, a telehealth marketplace for third-party virtual consultants, available in 32 US states, months after shuttering Amazon Care
The ink is not yet dry on Amazon's $4 billion acquisition of OneMedical, but in the meantime, the online services giant is making …
Filing: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway acquires ~60.1M of TSMC's American depositary shares, worth $4.1B+, in Q3 2022; TSMC's stock closed up 7.87%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said it bought more than $4.1 billion of stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) …
The fallout from FTX's fraud-driven collapse, the worst single event ever in crypto, will linger for years and shows it's time for exchanges to prove reserves
Nic Carter / CoinDesk :
Meta confirms WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose and India's public policy head Rajiv Aggarwal have stepped down; sources say the exits are not layoff related
Vikas SN / Moneycontrol :
A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, who sources say doesn't talk much, is hard to contact, and was one of the few with “root access” to the code base
- FTX's billionaire co-founder Gary Wang has a limited online presence and has stayed out of the spotlight throughout the crypto exchange's three-year history. Tweets: @zzabbits , @karivmcmahon , and ...
In a hearing with UK lawmakers, a Binance executive says the exchange will submit evidence on discussions about the FTX deal, selling the FTT token, and more
very tense moment daniel trinder, VP of gov affairs, says he'll be providing MPs with Binance's correspondence on the FTT sale tomorrow Emily Nicolle / @emilyjnicolle : now on web: Binance is to submi...
Google agrees to a record $391.5M privacy settlement with 40 state AGs over charges the company misled users into thinking they had disabled location tracking
Cecilia Kang / New York Times :
Binance plans to implement a new Proof-of-Reserves protocol developed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin after sharing a snapshot of its wallets last week
Sources: Amazon plans to cut ~10,000 corporate and tech jobs, or ~3% of its corporate staff and the largest cuts in its history, starting as soon as this week
Israel-based Weka, which makes data management tools for AI, ML, HPC, and research, raised a $135M Series D at a $750M valuation, after raising $73M in January
Meir Orbach / CTech :
The Epic Games-Apple antitrust battle resumes in appeals court; the US DOJ and state of California have been granted time to explain antitrust legal frameworks
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Calgary-based Attabotics, which makes warehouse automation robots, raised a $71.7M Series C-1 led by Export Development Canada, bringing total funding to $165M
Josh Scott / BetaKit :
Cerebras announces its Andromeda supercomputer, combining 16 wafer-sized WSE-2 chips to create 13.5M AI-optimized cores, available to customers and researchers
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
Some local people in Veldhoven, a small town in the Netherlands, worry that critical semiconductor component maker ASML is growing too big, too fast
Bloomberg :
Contentstack, a headless CMS for enterprises, raised an $80M Series C co-led by Georgian and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $169M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
In a Twitter Space, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the crypto exchange has seen a “slight increase in withdrawals” but otherwise “it's still business as usual”
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
Memo: Elon Musk tells Twitter staff they can continue to receive stock and options despite the company being private, using a plan “much like that of SpaceX”
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
YouTube introduces Shorts shopping features, letting users buy products while scrolling through videos, diversifying its revenue streams during a weak ad market
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Sources: Sea, Southeast Asia's largest internet company by revenue and market value, laid off 7,000+ employees, or ~10% of its staff, over the past six months
Juro Osawa / The Information :
Google launches Health Connect in beta on the Play Store with partners including Peloton, Oura, Flo, MyFitnessPal, and Samsung, after months in “early access”
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Filing: Bird overstated its revenue for over two years by counting unpaid customer rides; valued at ~$2.3B in its SPAC merger, Bird now has a ~$104M market cap
the jig is up https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kirsten Korosec / @kirstenkorosec : Been an interesting morning already in mobility land. Faraday ‘nine lives’ Future reaches a deal to ra...
Los Angeles- and Taipei-based GoFreight, which offers freight forwarders tools to build a storefront, give quotes, and manage operations, raised a $23M Series A
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Sequoia's mishandling of its 14,000-word SBF profile by journalist Adam Fischer and then deleting it served no purpose other than to embarrass everyone involved
NYC-based Maven, a digital health startup focused on women and families, raised a $90M Series E led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $300M
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.