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Amazon will spend $1B on movies for theatrical release
Amazon.com Inc. is going to invest $1 billion in movies that will hit the theaters sometime next year, according to a report published today by Bloomberg. As much of the tech industry is struggling and laying people off left, right, and center, Amazon is piling money into the entertainment industry. While a billion does sound like ...
Elon Musk tells staff he’s now hiring and talks about a Twitter HQ in Texas
Twitter Inc.’s harried Chief Executive Elon Musk just held a meeting with what’s left of his staff, telling them he’s on the lookout for new employees. The all-hands meeting happened on Monday at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. It’s not the first time Musk (pictured) has held such a companywide get-together during his chaotic time as ...
As hundreds leave Twitter, Elon Musk gets more than he bargained for
After Elon Musk gave his staff an ultimatum yesterday, more people than he may have wanted apparently have walked out of the door. Yesterday, Musk wrote an email to his employees telling them that they should be prepared to work their behinds off and accept that, going forward, Twitter will be an engineering-focused company (read: ...
Elon Musk tells Twitter staff they should choose to work hard or hit the road
In what has become a crisis at Twitter Inc. that sounds like a Hollywood script, new owner Elon Musk today sent a rather stern letter to his staff – the ones remaining, anyway. No sooner had Musk’s acquisition of Twitter finally go through — following wrangle after wrangle with the company — he began firing executives ...
Elon Musk has been firing employees that have criticized him on social media
After Twitter Inc. let go of thousands of employees lately, today owner Elon Musk added a few staff to the list of the canned, but this time because they had criticized the way he does things. Employees have taken to Twitter and to the company’s internal Slack board and aired their views, which seems to ...
Elon Musk takes to Spaces to explain his vision for Twitter
In what has been a harried time for Elon Musk since he took the reins of Twitter Inc., it seems he finally had time today to sit down and detail what he wants to do with the social media platform. Now that the company – like many in the tech industry – has come to ...
Report: Mark Zuckerberg says he takes full responsibility for coming Meta layoffs
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told company executives today that the buck stops with him regarding the layoffs that are set to arrive Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s been known for some time that Meta will cull a significant number of its 87,000 employees. Zuckerberg acknowledging that changes will have ...
Twitter users will get banned for impersonating others if they don’t label their accounts as parody
A lot has gone on since Elon Musk took over Twitter Inc., and today he introduced a new platform policy that seemed to surprise various parts of the media and public. “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk tweeted. “Previously, we issued a warning before ...
Cloud-native application security firm Apiiro raises $100M round
Israeli application security startup Apiiro LLC today announced an impressive Series B round of $100 million, led by General Catalyst with participation by Greylock and Kleiner Perkins. The company, which was founded by former employees of Microsoft Corp. and has offices in New York and Tel Aviv, raised $35 million in funding in 2020 from ...
YouTube announces plans to bring streaming services to its main app
Google LLC-owned YouTube today announced that it’s going to become a hub for streaming services for its U.S. users, bringing 34 such services to its main app. The video content giant is said to have about 2.1 billion monthly active users around the globe, with the U.S. share of those users currently at about 247 ...