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Twitter jumps after Musk increases commitment in takeover bid to $33.5 billion, in talks for other funding
Elon Musk, during an event at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Bloomberg /Getty A new filing reveals that Elon Musk plans to front $33.5 billion in his bid to take over Twitter. Musk is in talks with Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey and others to help finance, […]
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Twitter shareholders vote to boot Silver Lake co-CEO Durban, a long-time Musk backer, from board
Musk would have been appointed to Twitter’s board on Saturday, but the world’s richest man informed the company on the day that he would not, in fact, be taking the board seat. Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty Images Twitter shareholders on Wednesday voted to boot Egon Durban, the co-CEO and managing director […]
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Apple discourages retail employees from joining unions in internal video
An employee arranges Apple iPhones as customer shop at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue shortly after new products went on sale in Manhattan, in New York City, March 18, 2022. Mike Segar | Reuters Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s head of retail and human relations, told employees in a video this week that joining a union […]
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Satellite-imagery firms Maxar, Planet and BlackSky awarded billions of dollars in government contracts
Maxar collected new satellite imagery of the southern Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk that reveals a Russian Alligator-class landing ship that is burned and partially submerged near one of the ports loading/unloading quays. Maxar Technologies | Getty Images The National Reconnaissance Office on Wednesday announced contracts worth billions of dollars over the next decade to […]
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Democrats urge Google to stop collecting location data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR Sarah Silbiger | Getty Images News | Getty Images A group of 42 Democratic lawmakers urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a letter Tuesday to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary or non-aggregated location data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions. The letter comes ahead of the anticipated reversal […]
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Microsoft is selling the metaverse now — and it’s helping make everything from robots to ketchup
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Andrew Evers | CNBC You may not be ready to jump into the metaverse for fun, but it could be coming to work sooner than you think. Microsoft announced Tuesday that Kawasaki is a new customer for the tech giant’s so-called “industrial metaverse” — a fancy way of saying factory floor workers […]
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Snap’s warning sends shock across digital advertising as investors flee social media stocks
Evan Spiegel, CEO and co-founder of Snap Inc. Adam Galica | CNBC Social media companies were already having a rough year from the cutback in digital ad spending caused by rising inflation, supply chain challenges and the war in Ukraine. Forecasts for the second quarter called for meager growth at best, and stock prices were […]
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Snap falls 40% on pace for worst day ever, dragging other stocks with it
Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., speaks during the virtual Google Pixel Fall Launch event in New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Snap shares plunged 40% on Tuesday, putting the company on pace for its worst day ever and dragging down other social […]
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New York City removes the last payphone from service
Workers remove the final New York City payphone near Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on May 23, 2022. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images It’s the end of an era: New York City removed its last public payphone on Monday. The boxy enclosures were once an iconic […]
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SpaceX president defends Elon Musk over sexual misconduct claims: ‘I believe the allegations to be false’
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. NASA/Kim Shiflett SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell defended Elon Musk in an email to […]
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