Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story
The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013
Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants. — Andrew Anglin ― …
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision
Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …
Elon Musk says Apple has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter, after claiming on November 28 that Apple had “mostly stopped” Twitter ads
Elon Musk said Apple Inc. has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter Inc., further de-escalating a brewing war between two of the world's most influential tech companies.
Sources: Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange is trying to recover $900M owed to it by Genesis Global and Genesis' parent company Digital Currency Group
New York-based Gemini is trying to recover funds after FTX failure plunged market into turmoil — Digital asset trading group Genesis …
A look at Apple's efforts to reduce dependence on Foxconn; sources: Apple wants other suppliers in China, Vietnam, and India to actively plan product assembly
Burned by Covid lockdowns and worker protests at Foxconn plants, the iPhone maker is looking to diversify the supply chain that has powered its growth
Sources: Twitter's US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup's Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets
Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
Saudi Arabian food delivery service Jahez agrees to acquire local rival The Chefz for ~$173M in a cash and stock deal
Saudi food delivery firm Jahez agreed to acquire The Chefz in a cash and stock deal, almost a year after Delivery Hero SE's attempt to buy the firm was thwarted by the local competition watchdog.
A look at FORM, a 1980s software used for the hardest particle physics problems, as it risks obsolescence while being maintained almost entirely by a retiree
Maintenance of the software that's used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree.
Kuo: mass shipments of Apple's AR/VR headset may be delayed until H2 2023, from previously estimated Q2 2023, due to “software-related issues”
Mass shipments of Apple's long-rumored AR/VR headset may be delayed until the second half of 2023 due to unspecified “software-related issues …
Tim Cook was able to placate Elon Musk within two days, but the chaos at Foxconn's “iPhone City” may become the greatest test of Cook's diplomatic skills yet
Apple chief placates Elon Musk but faces bigger questions over iPhone supply chain — Tim Cook was already battling …
Autonomous trucking software company Embark lost ~98% of its market value, or ~$5B, since going public a year ago via a SPAC merger, amid a sector-wide downturn
Out of all the beaten-down public companies in the autonomous driving space, Embark Technology stands out as a conspicuously terrible stock market performer.
A look at virtual currencies like Roblox's Robux, which have become many kids' preferred way to be paid for chores or receive an allowance
almost all of it from sales of Robux. Parents should make sure that their kids are 13 when they debut and explain the manipulative business model https://www.wsj.com/... @claudia_gman : Kids Don't Wan...
Boston- and London-based Zoe, a nutrition and health tracking app, raised £25M led by Accomplice at a £209M valuation, after closing a £48M Series B in May 2021
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China is using phone trackers and other tools to track protestors, the first time mass surveillance has been directed at middle-class people in affluent cities
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Sources: FTX's derivatives exchange LedgerX is for sale, attracting interest from Blockchain.com, Gemini, and others; Nov. 17 filing: LedgerX had ~$303M in cash
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Twitter's VP of trust and safety Ella Irwin says it is focusing on automation to moderate content, favoring curbs on distribution rather than outright removals
can you explain why “egregious spam” is a sacrosanct category? Please tell the truth, that it's much easier to automate than moderation requiring a brain. Can you stop lying about who and how many peo...
An interview with the co-founder of Vietnamese unicorn VNG, which offers games and services like Zalo, a messaging app that had 74M+ MAUs in Vietnam in February
Bloomberg : Tweets: @bloombergasia and @yoolimleenews Tweets: @bloombergasia : A Vietnamese internet startup that's successfully defended its home market of 100 million people against global giants l...
A US judge dismisses an indictment against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, formally ending a criminal sanctions case that strained US-China relations
Inside the Crypties, an awards ceremony calling itself the Oscars for Web 3.0, with awards for game of the year, investor of the year, social impact, and more
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Germany says it is not planning a blanket ban on telecom equipment made by Chinese companies, but will continue making such decisions on a case-by-case basis
A look at the use of WhatsApp in Indian state Gujarat's elections, as political parties deploy thousands of “digital warriors” to spam the “people's feed”
Samriddhi Sakunia / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @samriddhi0809 , @samriddhi0809 , @samriddhi0809 , @restofworld , @nationalfedera4 , @hrishirajanand_ , @clifroz , @ankitlal , @samriddhi080...
A profile of Duolingo, which has almost 15M DAUs, up 51% YoY, and 3.7M paying subscribers, as it expects its 2022 revenue to surpass $365M, up 45% from 2021
Bill Gifford / Bloomberg : Tweets: @trengriffin , @business , and @billgifford Tweets: Tren Griffin / @trengriffin : Is Doulingo fluent in unit economics? What's the CLV of a Duolingo subscriber? htt...
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