Economy Jul 08 Elon Musk says he’s terminating $44 billion Twitter buyout deal Elon Musk announced he will walk away from his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter, leaving the deal on the verge of collapse. The Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition.
Economy Jun 28 Why some fear that big tech data could become a tool for abortion surveillance With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance.
World Jun 09 Facebook’s system approved dehumanizing hate speech Facebook has failed another test of its ability to detect blatant, violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit group Global Witness.
Economy Jun 01 Sheryl Sandberg, longtime COO at Facebook, steps down Sandberg has led Facebook — now Meta's — advertising business and was responsible for nurturing it from its infancy into an over $100 billion-a-year powerhouse.
Nation Apr 26 Turning Twitter into a ‘free speech’ haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has successfully arranged to buy Twitter for about $44 billion, intending to turn it into a haven for free speech. But the social platform has been down this road before, and it didn't end well last…
Nation Dec 08 Significant outage at Amazon causes widespread disruptions at U.S. businesses The incident at Amazon Web Services mostly affected the eastern U.S., but still impacted everything from airline reservations and auto dealerships to payment apps and video streaming services to Amazon's own massive e-commerce operation.
Economy Nov 29 New Twitter CEO steps from behind the scenes to high profile Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley's highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.
World Nov 02 Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network’s system. That’s about 640 million people.
Economy Oct 28 Facebook rebrands as Meta to emphasize ‘metaverse’ virtual reality vision Experts point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers, a document trove that has revealed the ways Facebook ignored internal reports of the harms its social network magnified across the…
Economy Oct 25 ‘Facebook Papers’ reveal company is hesitant to act on serious issues Thousands of pages of internal documents provided to Congress by a former employee depict an internally conflicted company where data on the harms it causes is abundant, but solutions, much less the will to act on them, are halting at…