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By Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg
Twitter Shareholders Meet Amid Elon Musk's Takeover Drama
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By Michelle Chapman / AP
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The tech company announced two key features that they hope will pave the way for the expanded use of augmented reality (AR) in everyday life
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May 24, 2022
Florida Social Media Law Unconstitutional: Appeals Court
As enacted, the law would give Florida’s attorney general authority to sue companies under the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. It would also allow individual Floridians to sue social media companies for up to $100,000 if they feel they’ve been treated unfairly.
By Curt Anderson / AP
May 23, 2022
How Young Investors Are Riding Out the Crypto Crash
Young investors have been taking big swings on high-risk, high-return trades. What's next?
By Megan McCluskey
May 19, 2022
What Terra's Crash Means For Crypto and Beyond
UST's downfall could have short-term and long-term ripple effects, especially as skeptical legislators like Elizabeth Warren survey the damage
By Andrew R. Chow
May 17, 2022
Why Tech Companies Struggled to Stop Buffalo Terror Video
Three years after social media platforms committed to put an end to viral videos of terrorist attacks on their platforms, the attack in Buffalo, New York, has revealed that their efforts are still a work...
By Billy Perrigo
May 17, 2022
Elon Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to Proceed
Musk recently told a tech conference that fake users make up at least 20% of all Twitter accounts
By Edwin Chan / Bloomberg
May 17, 2022
Elon Musk Sows Doubt Over His $44 Billion Twitter Takeover
Musk has said he wants to defeat spam bots, authenticate all humans and make Twitter's algorithms open source
By Giles Turner / Bloomberg
May 13, 2022
Proton's CEO Is Fighting Dictatorships and Big Tech
The company is pursuing profitability without surveilling users for ad dollars.
By Billy Perrigo/Geneva
May 12, 2022
Twitter to Freeze Hiring Ahead of Musk Deal
The hiring freeze is a reflection of the company’s state of uncertainty while it awaits Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover.
By Kurt Wagner and Sarah Frier / Bloomberg
May 12, 2022
Google Is Making It Easier to Remove Personal Info From Search
The company is rolling out a new tool to enable users to scrub personal details from search results
By Megan McCluskey
May 11, 2022
Why So Many Tech Stocks Are Falling
Technology companies thrived when the pandemic began more than two years ago. But now, as much of the population returns to work and spends less time at home, the tech sector is suffering deep losses...
By Nik Popli
May 11, 2022
Airbnb Made Overtourism Worse. Now It Wants to Fix That
Airbnb is implementing what it calls its biggest update in 10 years in an effort to help tackle overtourism
By Belinda Luscombe
May 11, 2022
Europe Is Saving Democracy From Big Tech
When Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism was published in 2019, public unease with the power of Big Tech found its Rosetta Stone, an opus that simultaneously described, confirmed and named the transformation of...
By Karl Vick
May 11, 2022
Why Bitcoin Keeps Crashing
The current slide of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is being caused by a combination of short-term and long-term factors.
By Andrew R. Chow
May 10, 2022
How a Digital Abortion Footprint Could Lead to Criminal Charges
Lawmakers are trying to generate new energy behind digital privacy bills in case Roe v. Wade is overturned.
By Abby Vesoulis
May 10, 2022
Musk Says He Would Reverse Twitter's Ban of Donald Trump
Elon Musk said Twitter’s Trump ban was a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.”
By Matt O'Brien and Kelvin Chan / AP
May 10, 2022
Meta Accused Of Human Trafficking and Union-Busting in Kenya
The company faces allegations after a former outsourced content moderator filed a lawsuit Tuesday.
By Billy Perrigo
May 10, 2022
Biden Starts Program to Provide Discounted Internet Service
Internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes through the Affordable Connectivity Program program
By Aamer Madhani / AP
May 9, 2022
Britain Pushes Tough Tech Rules Under New Digital Watchdog
Big tech companies would have to comply with tough rules under a new digital watchdog aimed at giving consumers more choice online
By Associated Press
May 6, 2022
TurboTax Will Pay Some Users After Settlement
NEW YORK — The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York's attorney general announced...
By Associated Press
May 5, 2022
Elon Musk Secures $7.1 Billion in New Financing for Twitter
The investors named in the filing include Fidelity, Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust and Qatar Holding.
By Edwin Chan / Bloomberg
May 5, 2022
Democracy Can Still End Big Tech's Dominance Over Our Lives
Just two decades ago barely 25% of the world’s information was digital. Today, nothing escapes this web. It is our shared fate and privilege to live at the dawn of information civilization. What kind of...
By Shoshana Zuboff
May 5, 2022
Bitcoin Is Coming to Your 401(k), If Your Employer Allows It
Fidelity opened the door for a future of crypto retirement savings. But the decision has been met with pushback, including from the U.S. Department of Labor
By Andrew R. Chow
May 4, 2022
The Real Threats to the Future of Netflix
The pandemic sparked a boom for video streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Peacock. In 2020 and 2021, Netflix added 54.6 million subscribers, many of them in the frightening, isolating six months after the world...
By Chris Stokel-Walker
May 2, 2022
Twitter Is Brilliant. The Damage It's Done Is Undeniable
The debate over Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is fierce because journalists and politicians depend on the platform to share their ideas and build their brands. Twitter is less than one-tenth the size of Facebook,...
By Roger McNamee
May 2, 2022
4 Ways to Fix Social Media That Don’t Cost $44 Billion
Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter in a deal worth $44 billion has sparked debate and concern about what the platform will look like once he takes over. The world’s richest man will steer the...
By Jem Bartholomew
April 29, 2022
Social Organizers Fear for the Future of Twitter
Pro-Palestine activists have a long history of experiencing smear attacks targeting their places of employment or study. When Hadi Nasrallah tweeted a video of protestors confronting Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely after a late 2021 speaking...
By Rebecca Chowdhury
April 29, 2022
India Will Test Elon Musk’s Twitter Free Speech Pledge
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter could give the Indian government extra leverage to crack down on critics—despite Musk’s stated aims to preserve free speech on the platform—due to Tesla’s business ambitions in the country. Under...
By Billy Perrigo and Suprakash Majumdar
April 29, 2022
Apple Expects Supply Shortages to Slash Sales
Apple Inc. shares slid after predictions that supply constraints would cost up to $8 billion in revenue during the current quarter
By Mark Gurman / Bloomberg
April 29, 2022
Elon Musk and the Tech Bro Obsession With 'Free Speech'
They say that something is worth what someone will pay for it. If that's true, then protecting "free speech," which Elon Musk has cited as a central reason he agreed to buy Twitter for $44...
By Charlotte Alter
April 29, 2022
Elon Musk Offloads $4 Billion of Tesla Shares
Elon Musk sold about $4 billion worth of Tesla Inc. stock days after reaching a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc. The Tesla chief executive officer offloaded 4.4 million shares on April 26 and...
By Dana Hull / Bloomberg
April 29, 2022
The Numbers That May Have Convinced Elon Musk That Twitter Was Worth $44 Billion
Elon Musk is anything but conventional. Typically, when companies (or multi-billionaires) spend boatloads of money on acquisitions, they take their time reviewing internal documents and financial statements that aren’t available to the public—before making their...
By John Simons and Lon Tweeten
April 28, 2022
Almost Half of Elon Musk's Twitter Followers Are Fake
Spam bots on Twitter are automated accounts that mimic the activity of real people on the site, but are programmed to engage in malicious activity
By Megan McCluskey
April 28, 2022
Twitter Sales Miss Estimates as Elon Musk Poised to Take Control
Twitter Inc., in one of its last earnings reports before Elon Musk takes the company private, reported revenue that missed analysts’ estimates, reflecting a slowdown in advertising. Revenue rose to $1.2 billion in the first...
By Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg
April 28, 2022
What Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Means for Trump's TRUTH Social
Musk’s deal has left a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the fate of Trump's TRUTH Social platform
By Megan McCluskey
April 28, 2022
The World’s Steel Comes at a Steep Climate Cost. A Swedish Company is Trying to Change That.
“If we have the chance to really solve the root cause of the real problem, why not do that?”
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 28, 2022
Influencers Are Scamming Their Fans Through Crypto. Here’s How Their Tactics Have Evolved.
As crypto technology has evolved, so too have the methods by influencers to extract money out of their fanbases
By Andrew R. Chow
April 28, 2022
Prominent Twitter Users Are Seeing Big Losses and Gains in Followers. Here's What We Know
Public figures have been seeing wild fluctuations in their follower accounts—and the activity seems to be following partisan lines.
By Andrew R. Chow
April 27, 2022
'We're Back.' Far-Right Groups Celebrate Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover
While much of the online world reacted with surprise and skepticism when news broke of Elon Musk's stunning $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Monday, some corners of the Internet broke out in jubilation. "Today...
By Vera Bergengruen
April 27, 2022
What Elon Musk's Deal Means for Twitter's CEO
As owner of the company, Musk will have the power to transform the board and fire key individuals who don’t align with his vision for the platform.
By Eloise Barry
April 26, 2022
Twitter Employees Are Worried About Elon Musk Ownership
Twitter employees told TIME that the billionaire's record bodes poorly for the company's anti-harassment efforts
By Billy Perrigo
April 26, 2022
What Elon Musk Really Believes
In trying to read his motivations, both left and right seem to be getting Musk wrong
By Molly Ball
April 26, 2022
Jeff Bezos Asks If China Will Have Leverage Over Twitter
Elon Musk's business interests in China prompt a question from the Amazon founder
By Chad de Guzman
April 26, 2022
Elon Musk May Find Fixing Twitter Harder Than He Thinks
Musk has laid out a series of changes to Twitter after making a deal to buy it for $44 billion
By Andrew R. Chow
April 25, 2022
Elon Musk Reaches $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter
The world's richest man is set to take Twitter private
By Megan McCluskey
April 25, 2022
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