How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry
Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b visas. It started whe...
Adam Mosseri says Threads' blocking of “Covid” and related terms is temporary and will be lifted in “weeks or months”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Threads: @mosseri , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz . Bluesky: @annatarkov.bsky.social Threads: Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : Weeks or months, let me look int...
MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on Android at Google, dies after being stabbed in San Francisco on April 4
I worked with Bob Lee when I first started working at Google. … Jenny Lee : Last night, I heard about Bob Lee's passing. I am completely devasted and heartbroken. — Bob was our Chief Product Office...
Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations
After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe. Tweets: @sidhubaba , @carnage4life , @aggichr...
SBF claims FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, before a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B and led to bankruptcy
and Themselves” Now he has become a doormat apparently. https://twitter.com/... Cas Piancey / @caspiancey : Remember when the FDIC forced Brett Harrison, former CEO of FTX US, to delete a tweet claimi...
Facebook says Q3 ad revenue grew 33% YoY to $28.28B but warns of “continued headwinds” in Q4 due to Apple's ATT changes in iOS
remember that FB missed rev expectations too, by almost $600MM). FB acknowledged ATT pain last Q which served its interests this Q Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Sheryl on Apple's privacy changes: ...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says VC-backed startups will become eligible for $350B in small business loans guaranteed via the CARES Act
In a world that everything counts, everybody matters Tweets: Biz Carson / @bizcarson : This week @ShakeelHashim asked the simple question: should the government bail out startups? Why not VCs? The sim...
Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week
Here's Everything You Need to Know Mariella Moon / Engadget : WSJ: Facebook's cryptocurrency finds backing from PayPal and Uber Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk : Facebook Hires Standard Chartered Bank Lobbyi...