Twitter backtracks and Elon Musk apologizes after saying the service would remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Mastodon, and others
Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.
Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”
After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls
Sources: after its funds performed poorly, SoftBank considers launching a third Vision Fund; Vision Fund 2 is now worth 19% less than the $49B invested
Despite massive losses, Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son has tried to chart a new path for the tech investment giant
Twitter tests a status feature for tweets, letting users add a label from a pre-determined list, in the US and Australia
Facebook is trying to be TikTok, but now, Twitter is bringing us back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal, or Myspace). Some users are reporting …
Sources: Meta has drawn up plans to add “social tokens”, lending services, and a non-blockchain virtual currency that employees dubbed “Zuck Bucks” to its apps
Meta has drawn up plans to introduce virtual coins, tokens and lending services to its apps …
Twitter misses as Q4 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.57B, net income dropped to $182M; mDAUs hit 217M, up from 192M YoY; FY 2021 revenue rose 37% YoY to $5.08B
- Twitter reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 Thursday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
Profile of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who are building on their successes with crypto investments and the Gemini exchange with Nifty Gateway, Block-Fi, more
Cameron and Tyler, the same ones who got Zucked, and are now Bitcoin (and NFT) billionaires. https://www.forbes.com/... (h/t @bytesofnews) @forbes : The Winklevii share prediction ...
After a monthslong campaign, the union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, AL, has concluded and vote counting begins on Tuesday, overseen by the NLRB
policies that bend over backwards to attract companies in need of cheap, hassle-free labour https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... @financialtimes : The labour and civil ri...
Newly created Twitter accounts labeled as Amazon employees are defending the company amid a union drive; Amazon admitted in 2018 to paying for similar tweets
- Amazon's paid army of employee Twitter users is at it again, this time criticizing unionization.
Verizon Media Group to rebrand most of its media franchises as Yahoo products and sell subscriptions to those products via Yahoo+, a new subscription platform
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is mulling new rules around statements regarding election results including premature claims of victory
Ben Smith / New York Times :
While tech companies push remote work for their employees, gig workers receive little support amid COVID-19 outbreak and face income loss for self-quarantine
Amazon, Uber, and Lyft have sent memos asking workers to follow protocols that might not be feasible
Tech leaders should stop glib comments on media and acting like underdogs, and tech media should stop “Red Teaming” tech, overusing anonymity, and passing blame
Twitter is especially stupid right now … Bryant Jefferson / MediaSquared : Mom, Tech and Media Are Fighting Again! Tweets: Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis : Incredible. Last week I...
Tech leaders should stop glib comments on media and acting like underdogs, and tech media should stop “Red Teaming” tech, overusing anonymity, and passing blame
[with a post like this, i'm not 100% sure i got it right in first publish - i don't draft and i don't circulate for feedback …
Uber reports Q4 revenue of $4.1B, up 37% YoY, gross bookings of $18.1B, up 28%, and net loss of $1.1B; gross bookings from Uber Eats were $4.37B, up 71% YoY
@dkhos, beating street expectations https://www.ft.com/...
Uber's stock rose as much as 10% after hours after the company announced a Q4 loss that was narrower than expected and moved its profitability forecast forward
- Uber's revenue growth picked up in the quarter. — During the fourth quarter, Uber faced tighter regulations impacting …
Uber reports Q4 revenue of $4.1B, up 37% YoY, gross bookings of $18.1B, up 28%, and net loss of $1.1B; gross bookings from Uber Eats were $4.37B, up 71% YoY
Revenue of $4.1 billion, growing 37% year-over-year or 39% on a constant currency basis — Rides Adjusted EBITDA of $742 million, with continued margin expansion
Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston joins Facebook's board of directors, effective immediately
Good times https://twitter.com/... Dan Primack / @danprimack : Boston tech folks view @drewhouston and @finkd as the two who got away, so makes sense they'd team up. Julia Carrie W...
How the increasing use of AI to vet job applications is forcing career counselors at universities to prepare students on how to impress the AI algorithms
San Francisco (CNN)College career centers used to prepare students for job interviews by helping them learn how to dress appropriately or write a standout cover letter. Tweets: @el...
Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more
(CNN)At the start of 2018, Wag looked like tech's next Big Thing. — In January, the founders of the dog-walking startup announced … Tweets: @seldo , @carnage4life , @_cingraham ,...