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FTC Admits It Is Investigating Twitter

Federal agency FTC confirms it is investigating Twitter under new CEO Elon Musk for potential violations of 2011 agreement

2 years ago

WhatsApp Will Not Comply With UK Online Safety Bill

WhatApp becomes second major platform to indicate it will not comply with the UK's revised Online Safety Bill

2 years ago

Tabasco X Tinx: A Successful Marketing Campaign Example

Tabasco’s recent collaboration with Tik Tok star Tinx makes a creative and successful example of an influencer marketing campaign.

2 years ago

Silvergate Bank To Close Down, Amid FTX Aftermath

Silvergate Capital, one of the two main banks for the crypto industry, announced on Wednesday that it will wind down…

2 years ago

Lawyers For FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Hint At Trial Delay

Legal team for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried suggest they may need more time to prepare legal defence of their…

2 years ago

Elon Musk Admits “Massive Decline” In Ad Revenue

Elon Musk says Twitter may be cash flow-positive next quarter, which may not surprise observers after all his cost-cutting

2 years ago

Musk Apologises After Mocking Fired Twitter Director

Haraldur Thorleifsson asked Elon Musk if he had been fired. Musk mocked him in his reply, but later backtracked and…

2 years ago

Major Twitter Outage Caused By Single Engineer – Report

Cost of conducting mass layoffs? Major Twitter outage this week triggered by just one engineer shutting down free access to…

2 years ago

Meta Planning Thousands More Job Cuts – Report

Zuckerberg's promise of “year of efficiency” at Meta likely to entail more job losses, according to media report

2 years ago

Meta Cuts Prices For VR Headsets

Struggling to sell? Meta has cut prices for two of its virtual reality headsets amid reduced consumer spending on tech

2 years ago

Amazon Pauses Construction At Second HQ In Virginia

Construction on the second phase Amazon's HQ2 in Virginia has been paused, amid cost cutting at the e-commerce giant

2 years ago

Former FTX Engineer Pleads Guilty To Fraud Charges

Former engineering director of collapsed cryptocurrency firm FTX has pleaded guilty to six criminal charges, including fraud

2 years ago

Visa, Mastercard ‘Pause Crypto Partnerships’ Amidst Meltdown

Visa, Mastercard reportedly halting cryptocurrency partnerships and product plans following industry meltdown last year

2 years ago

Meta Forms AI Team To Compete With ChatGPT

Facebook, Instagram parent Meta forms AI-focused team to develop text and visual tools across its products, following success of OpenAI's…

2 years ago

Canada Bans TikTok From Government Devices

Canada government bans TikTok from all government devices, saying it presents 'unacceptible risk to privacy and security'

2 years ago

Twitter Cuts 10 Percent Of Staff, Including #SleepWhereYouWork Exec

Latest round of cuts at Twitter affects 10 percent of staff, incuding executive pictured sleeping on floor last November

2 years ago

DoJ Alleges Google Deleted Evidence In Antitrust Case

Serious allegation of misconduct made against Google by US Department of Justice, in its antitrust case against the firm

2 years ago

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Four More Charges

Four new criminal charges leveled at FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried concerning illegal political donations and bank fraud

2 years ago

Amazon Closes Acquisition Of Healthcare Provider One Medical

After US authorities refuse to challenge acquisition, Amazon closes its $3.9 billion deal for healthcare provider One Medical

2 years ago

Meta Prepping Fresh Round Of Layoffs – Report

Facebook parent Meta is reportedly planning a fresh round of job cuts, after axing more than 11,000 staff last year

2 years ago

Amazon Staff Push Back At Return-To-Office Order

Unhappy Amazon staff reportedly taking to internal websites and comms channels to complain about return-to-office order

2 years ago

Huobi, OKX To Apply For Hong Kong Crypto Licences

Major crypto exchanges Huobi Global and OKX to apply for licences under new Hong Kong regulatory regime aimed at turning…

2 years ago

Microsoft ‘Testing Ads’ In Bing Search AI Chat

Microsoft reportedly in early conversations with ad agencies about inserting paid links in Bing search AI chat results

2 years ago

Facebook, Instagram To Get Paid Verification

Facebook, Instagram to offer paid 'blue tick' verification starting in Australia and New Zealand this week, following similar move by…

2 years ago

Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Charged By US SEC

Do Kwon, co-founder of the failed TerraUSD cryptocurrency, has been charged by US authorities with fraud, after months on the…

2 years ago

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Steps Down

One of the first Google employees, YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki, has confirmed she is stepping down after 25 years

2 years ago

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Bond Backers Revealed

As Sam Bankman-Fried faces questions over his use of a VPN, the identity of the $250 million bond guarantors are…

2 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Gains Extra $4m To Protect Him, Family

Security cost to protect Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and his family has been increased by millions of dollars, after 'specific threats'

2 years ago

Twitter Created System To Promote Elon Musk Tweets – Report

Elon Musk hints at new CEO for Twitter, amid reports engineers were ordered to create system to promote his tweets

2 years ago