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.
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
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Twitter stopped enforcing its longstanding COVID-19 “harmful misinformation” policy on November 23; more than 11,000 accounts were suspended under the rules
New York (CNN Business)Twitter said it will no longer enforce its longstanding Covid misinformation policy …
Source: in Q1 2022, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48M and accounting for over 4% of Twitter's revenue that quarter
now he's worried about ‘tyranny’ if Apple deplatforms him The Verge : Elon's pretend naiveté about Apple and the App Store is very funny. Barron's Online : Elon Musk Takes on Apple Over App Store Fees...
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
The UK government says the updated Online Safety Bill won't force tech giants to remove content that is “legal but harmful”, following free speech complaints
Britain will not force tech giants to remove content that is “legal but harmful” from their platforms after campaigners …
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 …
Binance's $1B recovery fund is a lifeline, but questions remain, including on decision making and why funds came from a cold wallet that holds customer funds
- The billion-dollar fund could be a crucial lifeline for the industry, as companies tussle with the aftershocks of FTX's collapse.
Analysis: high-profile Republican members of Congress saw an uptick in Twitter followers in the first few weeks of Musk's reign, while Democrats lost followers
Washington Post : Tweets: @derekwillis and @maxberger Tweets: Derek Willis / @derekwillis : Look, it's congressional Twitter account follower data from @propublica in this @washingtonpost joint: http...
FTX's collapse was exacerbated by centralization; FTX being a decentralized exchange, based on smart contracts, could have prevented SBF draining customer funds
Wall Street Journal :
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.
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
Financial Times :
Kuo estimates iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments in Q4 to be 70M-75M, vs. the 80M-85M consensus, and thinks demand may “disappear” due to a recession
The supply and production issues plaguing the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are no secret at this point.
Sources: Jack Ma has been living in central Tokyo for nearly six months, keeping public activities to a minimum, after China's crackdown on tech and businessmen
Billionaire has spent almost six months in Japan after largely disappearing from public view
Internal FTX documents detail SBF's desperate attempts to cling on to power, convinced he could save FTX; SBF claims “numerous parties” were willing to invest
Emails and text messages show how lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of his collapsing crypto exchange.
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 …
A look at the FBI's January 6 investigation geofence warrant: Google identified 5K+ devices; dozens appear to have been in airplane mode or had data deleted
Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol.
Report: Fanatics' sports NFT service Candy Digital lays off as many as half of its 100-person staff; the startup raised a $100M Series A in October 2021
- Despite achieving unicorn status last year Candy Digital decided to let go of a large number of its roughly 100 employees Source: Sportico .
The UK's CMA finds intervention in the music streaming services market will not increase artist earnings as their problems are “unrelated to competition issues”
Kate Beioley / Financial Times :
Amazon announces Create with Alexa, a generative AI that lets children create animated stories via voice prompts on three topics, available on Echo Show devices
Will Shanklin / Engadget :
The Reserve Bank of India plans to launch a retail pilot for its CBDC on December 1, after testing with nine banks since November 1
Swati Bhat / Reuters :
Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images
Wall Street Journal :
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
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Adobe: US consumers spent $11.3B on Cyber Monday, up 5.8% YoY, above Thanksgiving's $5.29B and Black Friday's $9.12B, driven in part by deeper discounts
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Source: Yahoo plans to launch a retail stock trading service for Yahoo Finance and strike deals with sports betting companies to bolster Yahoo Sports
Yahoo's latest deal underscores its move to boost revenues and use its cash to grow its core businesses, including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Mail.
Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $47M Series B extension led by Madrona Venture Group, bringing its total funding to $86M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Massachussets-based warehouse robotics startup Locus raised a $117M Series F at a “close to” $2B valuation, following a $150M Series E in February 2021
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
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
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
AWS announces a new Graviton3E chip for high-performance computing tasks like weather forecasting and gene sequencing, competing with Intel, Nvidia, and others
Bloomberg :
US crypto exchange Kraken agrees to pay $360K+ to the Treasury Department to settle accusations of sanctions violations involving transactions by users in Iran
New York Times :
Analysis: Palantir, which invested $450M since 2021 in early-stage companies via SPACs, has lost ~$333M, or 75% of its portfolio, offset against some revenue
Chris Bryant / Bloomberg : Tweets: @opinion and @trashfuturepod Tweets: @opinion : Palantir's raison d'etre is identifying patterns hidden within mountains of data. Yet somehow it didn't spot the ris...
Singapore-based Igloo, an AI-based insurtech platform for underserved groups in SE Asia, raised a $27M Series B extension, bringing the round's total to $46M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Companies are seeking to hire former Twitter misinformation experts, who were laid off or have quit, seeking to avoid liability for false and toxic information
@lisackaplan https://www.nytimes.com/... @graphika_nyc : John Kelly (@apidictionist), Graphika CEO shared his insights for the @nytimes about the growth of disinformation out of the political arena an...
Donald Trump's lawyer says a lawsuit against Twitter over banning his account is ongoing and Trump does not plan to withdraw the appeal, complicating his return
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg :
Some US auditors say FTX's collapse has led them to designate crypto clients as “high risk”, resulting in longer audits, higher fees, or dropping clients
Stephen Foley / Financial Times : Tweets: @jaypinho , @mayazi , @ian_fraser , and @bitfinexed Tweets: Jay Pinho / @jaypinho : Reminder: on July 8th @paoloardoino claimed Tether hadn't completed its l...
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