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Apple now says its plan to have a three-day week at the office is indefinitely postponed
Apple Inc. sent a memo today to its corporate headquarters in San Francisco saying most of the staff will now not be asked to attend the office for three days a week, citing a rise in COVID-19 cases as the reason. The original plan was to have staff go into the office on Mondays, Tuesdays ...
Elon Musk puts Twitter bid into further doubt on question over fake accounts
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk cast further doubt today about his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying fake accounts may change how much he’s willing to bid. Since Musk made that offer in April this year, there has been no shortage of drama. As a self-confessed free speech “absolutist,” Musk has stoked ...
Top execs leave Twitter as CEO announces a hiring freeze
Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Parag Agrawal announced some big changes today in an email to staff, a shake-up that will see two main employees leave the company. Consumer product leader Kayvon Beykpour has been fired, or in his own words asked to leave the company after being told Twitter wants to go in a “different ...
Elon Musk says Trump’s Twitter ban was ‘stupid’ and he’d like to reverse it
Elon Musk said In a lengthy interview today at a Financial Times conference that one of the things he’d like to do with Twitter Inc. is to remove the ban on former President Donald Trump. After the chaos that happened on Capitol Hill last year, Trump was hit with a permanent ban on Twitter, a platform ...
Clearview AI to stop selling its controversial facial recognition technology to US firms
Clearview AI Inc. today agreed that it will not sell its facial recognition technology to most private firms in the U.S. in a settlement that was reached at a federal court in Illinois. The company came under the spotlight in 2020 when its database containing billions of faces was breached. Those faces were scraped from ...
Meta accused of blocking much-needed government and healthcare pages in Australia spat
A group of whistleblowers who worked for what was then Facebook Inc. say that during a fallout with Australia over news content, the company deliberately blocked websites related to government, healthcare and emergency services, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. Last year, Australia adopted a media law that would force social ...
New York City sues Activision Blizzard over Microsoft sale
Gaming giant Activision Blizzard Inc. is being sued yet again, this time by the New York City Employees’ Retirement System and pension fund. The suit, first reported by Axios today, is focused on Chief Executive Bobby Kotick, a man who has been in the spotlight for some time regarding what was called a “frat boy” culture ...
Twitter is testing a feature that allows users to tweet only to an inner circle of friends
As Twitter Inc. is preparing for some changes under its new ownership, the company announced today that it’s now testing a feature that will allow people to send private tweets to up to 150 people. The feature, called Twitter Circle, will give users an option to reduce the stress of communication on a mass scale. ...
Amazon Labor Union loses vote at warehouse in New York after last month’s historic win
A grassroots labor union had a setback today after losing a vote at a warehouse in Staten Island, a loss that comes on the back of a big win last month. This will come as a blow to the newly formed Amazon Labor Union, ALU, which won a vote last month at a much larger ...
Google says people can now more easily have more personal information removed from search results
Google LLC announced today that people will now be able to have just about all their personal information removed from search results and doing that has been made easier. The company in the past had offered a similar option to people, but now the types of information have been expanded and when someone sends in ...