Saturday, April 29, 2023

Six months into Elon Musk's Twitter: The fall of verification and birth of Twitter Blue in one very long chart

In the six months since Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, the billionaire has turned the platform on its head by overhauling how it decides which accounts to verify.

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Friday, April 28, 2023

Twitter's former CEO has a new app that looks a lot like Twitter

The buzzy new social media app of the moment looks so much like Twitter it's almost hard to distinguish the two. The profiles, timelines and colors are nearly identical. Even the creator is the same.

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North America's largest transportation network suspends use of Twitter for service alerts

North America's largest transportation network suspended the use of Twitter for service alerts Thursday, saying the "reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed."

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Amazon posts $3.2 billion profit as it goes through multiple rounds of layoffs

Amazon is starting the year back in the black.

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

Federal appeals court tosses state antitrust suit seeking to break up Meta

A group of states that sued to break up Facebook-parent Meta in 2020 were years too late to file their challenge and failed to make a persuasive case that the company's data policies harmed competition, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a sweeping victory for the tech giant.

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Snapchat's new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents

Less than a few hours after Snapchat rolled out its My AI chatbot to all users last week, Lyndsi Lee, a mother from East Prairie, Missouri, told her 13-year-old daughter to stay away from the feature.

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How Elon Musk upended Twitter and his own reputation in 6 months as CEO

When Elon Musk first agreed to buy Twitter, he promised to make the company "better than ever," with greater transparency, fewer bots, a stronger business and more of what he called "free speech."

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Samsung profits plunge 95%

Samsung Electronics flagged a gradual recovery for chips in the second half of the year after its semiconductor business reported a record loss on Thursday, driven by weak demand for tech devices.

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Meta stock jumps after company reports first revenue growth in nearly a year

Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday reported that it grew sales by 3% during the first three months of the year, reversing a trend of three consecutive quarters of revenue declines and far exceeding Wall Street analysts' expectations.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Elizabeth Holmes delays start of prison sentence with last-minute appeal

Elizabeth Holmes won't be starting her 11-year prison sentence just yet.

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