Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report

Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report

NEW YORK, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc restored a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal. Reuters reported on Friday that the feature was taken down a few days ago, citing … Read more

Elon Musk’s team seeks new funding for Twitter – investor

Elon Musk’s team seeks new funding for Twitter – investor

Dec 16 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s team has reached out to investors to raise new funds for his struggling social media platform Twitter, one of the investors said. Ross Gerber, president and CEO at Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management, told Reuters that he was contacted by a Musk representative about offering more shares at … Read more

Elon Musk restores Twitter accounts of journalists after suspensions draw backlash

Elon Musk restores Twitter accounts of journalists after suspensions draw backlash

Dec 17 (Reuters) – Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane. The reinstatements came after the unprecedented suspensions evoked stinging criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and journalism organizations from several parts of the globe on … Read more

Electric vehicles confront the leap to the mass market

Electric vehicles confront the leap to the mass market

DETROIT, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The past year was sobering for investors who poured money into Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and rival electric vehicle startups that hoped to emulate Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s success. As interest rates rose and financial markets gyrated, shares in many EV startups deflated. Rivian Automotive Inc (RIVN.O), which had a higher … Read more

Elon Musk: Apple threatened to yank Twitter from App Store

Elon Musk: Apple threatened to yank Twitter from App Store

Nov 28 (Reuters) – Elon Musk accused Apple Inc (AAPL.O) of threatening to block Twitter Inc from its app store without saying why in a series of tweets on Monday that also said the iPhone maker had stopped advertising on the social media platform. The billionaire CEO of Twitter and Tesla said Apple was pressuring … Read more

Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit

Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit

Nov 10 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc’s new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. privacy regulator and the exit of the company’s trust and safety leader. The billionaire on his first mass call with employees said … Read more

Meta to cut more than 11,000 jobs in one of the biggest layoffs this year

Meta to cut more than 11,000 jobs in one of the biggest layoffs this year

Nov 9 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Wednesday it will let go of 13% of its workforce, or more than 11,000 employees, in one of the biggest layoffs this year as the Facebook parent battles soaring costs and a weak advertising market. The mass layoffs, first in Meta’s 18-year history, follow thousands … Read more

Amazon shares slump, Big Tech peers stay afloat

Amazon shares slump, Big Tech peers stay afloat

Oct 28 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) shares fell about 8% on Friday after forecasting holiday-quarter sales below Wall Street estimates, while its Big Tech peers recovered from a bruising selloff this week. The online retailer, whose market cap briefly fell below $1 trillion, was last down 8.4% at $101.66, after hitting its lowest since … Read more

Twitter shares to be suspended on NYSE as Musk nears takeover

Twitter shares to be suspended on NYSE as Musk nears takeover

Oct 27 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) shares will be suspended from trading on Friday, the New York Stock Exchange’s website showed, as billionaire Elon Musk faces a court-ordered Oct. 28 deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the social media company. Musk, the world’s richest person, visited Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco … Read more

Exclusive: Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims

Exclusive: Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims

Oct 25 – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company’s electric vehicles can drive themselves, three people familiar with the matter said. The U.S. Department of Justice launched the previously undisclosed probe last year following more than a dozen crashes, some of them fatal, involving Tesla’s … Read more