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Elon Musk Values Twitter at $20 Billion
The billionaire bought the social media company for $44 billion in October and took it private. Source
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Twitter’s Talks Over Licensing Music Are Said to Stall Under Elon Musk
Twitter explored the licensing of music rights from three major labels before negotiations stalled after Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, said eight people with knowledge of the discussions, who were not authorized to speak […]
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After Bank Debacle, Silicon Valley Reckons With Its Image
Some tried to combat the anti-tech perception that was bubbling up on social media. Over the weekend, Garry Tan, the president of the start-up incubator Y Combinator, sent a message to hundreds of founders and […]
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Elon Musk Sees Twitter Financial Recovery and Apologizes to Disabled Ex-Employee
On a day Mr. Musk said the company was recovering from a sharp drop in ad sales, he found himself apologizing to a former employee with a disability he had disparaged. Source
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Twitter Outages Are on the Rise Amid Elon Musk’s Job Cuts
Twitter and Mr. Musk did not respond to requests for comment. In an email to employees on Monday, which was seen by The New York Times, Mr. Musk said the layoffs over the weekend were […]
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In Latest Round of Job Cuts, Twitter Is Said to Lay Off at Least 200 Employees
Twitter laid off at least 200 of its employees on Saturday night, three people familiar with the matter said, or about 10 percent of the roughly 2,000 who were still working for the company. Elon […]
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Why You Should Listen to Twitter on Two-Factor Authentication
Twitter recently set in motion a major shift that will affect how most people protect their accounts. The company told nonpaying users that they would soon have to stop using a popular security feature: two-factor […]