Microsoft-owned social media platform LinkedIn has reached an agreement with the Department of Labor to pay $1.8 million to female employees over discrimination claims. According to the government, Linkedin denied almost 700 women equal pay in several California offices.
Recent reports state that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expected to serve as temporary CEO of Twitter following his $44 billion takeover of the social media firm.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly received commitments from investors offering more than $7 billion to boost the equity of his offer to purchase Twitter. Among the notable investors are Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, who has committed 35 million current shares of Twitter towards the private company.
Mark Zuckerberg has suffered a humiliating defeat as social media giant Facebook is shutting down its podcast platform less than a year after it launched.
Shares of ridesharing giant Lyft plunged 30 percent in intraday trading on Wednesday as investors expect short-term headwinds and surging gas prices to weigh heavily on the company’s performance in the coming months.
26 progressive-leftist NGOs and advocacy organizations have added their names to an open letter calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter if Elon Musk, who will be the platform’s new owner after the potentially months-long process of purchasing the company is complete, succeeds in his ambition of restoring its founding commitment to free speech.
In a recent SEC filing, Twitter acknowledged that its core advertising business may be at risk as ar result of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company. The far-left San Francisco company also admitted that the buyout could impact employee hiring and retention.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, despite Elon Musk’s plans to take Twitter private, the billionaire Tesla CEO has told potential investors he wants to take the company public again within a few years.
Florida congressional candidate Laura Loomer, represented by former Congressman Bob Barr, has filed a RICO case against Twitter, alleging that tech companies engage in racketeering behavior when they blacklist prominent users and politicians from their platforms.
Twitter will have to turn over emails, texts, voicemails, and other communications pertaining to the permanent blacklisting of former New York Times science writer and skeptic of official coronavirus policies Alex Berenson from the platform, in a legal blow to the leftist-run platform.
Recent reports claim that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in talks with large investment firms and high-net-worth individuals to back his $44 billion Twitter acquisition. Musk could be attempting to bring in additional outside money to lower the portion of his own personal fortune at stake in the acquisition of the social media platform.
Amazon reportedly told its staff this week that it will reimburse up to $4,000 in travel expenses every year for medical treatments, including abortions.
Google has launched a new tool that will allow users to remove their phone number, email address, home address, and other personal information from its search engine.
A group of 200 Apple employees calling themselves “Apple Together” recently wrote an open letter condemning the company’s choices to bring staffers back to offices and accusing the woke tech giant of racism. According to the employees, Apple asking employees to return to the office is actually an attempt to make the workforce “younger, whiter, and male-dominated.”
FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, one of the last officials appointed to the federal government by President Donald Trump, slammed calls for the FCC to intervene in Elon Musk’s deal to take Twitter private, condemning demands to prevent the return of free speech to the platform as unconstitutional and un-American.
Far-left Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who leaked Facebook documents last year, stated in a recent interview that she is “cautiously optimistic” about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
Despite many conservatives returning to Twitter following news of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s successful takeover bid and dedication to free speech, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was banned from the platform once again about three hours after his return.
We have three choices in dealing with Big Tech: like it the way it is, break it up, or fix it. Fixing it is the best course.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lost $20 billion in wealth in one day following the poor performance of Amazon’s stock. Bezos still has $150 billion to his name despite Amazon’s disastrous earnings report.
A recent report claims that Amazon uses voice data from its Echo home assistant devices to target ads on both its own platforms and the web. Researchers created fake personas with different interests and then tracked how the data fed to Amazon spread around the internet. According to the researchers, they found “strong evidence that smart-speaker interactions are used for the purpose of targeting ads, and that this ad targeting implies significant data sharing across multiple parties.”
Despite the iPhone being the top-selling smartphone brand in China just three months ago, a first-quarter sale slump has knocked Apple off the top spot in the Communist country.
In a recent interview, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel criticized Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse as “ambiguous and hypothetical.” According to Spiegel, “people really enjoy spending time together in reality.”
E-commerce giant Amazon has suffered a significant drop in share value following a recently reported loss in the first quarter of 2022 of $3.8 billion. As of Friday afternoon, Amazon shares are down more than 15 percent in intraday trading.
A majority of Americans approve of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s successful bid to buy Twitter, according to the results of an upcoming poll, which shows that even the majority of Democrats believe Musk will make the social media platform better.
According to a recent report, prominent conservative accounts on Twitter enjoyed an increase in followers following news of Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform, while prominent leftists suffered a decline in followers. According to research that looked at 100 prominent conservatives and leftists, conservatives gained an average of 17,229 followers after Musk’s takeover, while leftists lost an average of 6,062 followers.
Social media platform Twitter recently published its earnings report for the first quarter of 2022, falling short of expectations. The Company also admitted it had overstated its daily active users for several years, supposedly by error. The earnings report is expected to be Twitter’s final report as a public company following Elon Musk’s successful bid to take the company private.
An Austin-area man is offering Tesla CEO Elon Musk 100 acres of free land to move Twitter’s headquarters from San Francisco to Texas. The offer comes after Musk’s successful bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that he would declare the area a “free speech zone” and added “maybe we can rename it Twitter, Texas.”
Facebook’s forecasts for its revenue growth predict that Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire could suffer its first revenue drop in over a decade. Zuckerberg admitted that Apple’s recent privacy changes have put a major dent in his advertising business, which is fuelled by the personal data of billions of users around the world.
A federal judge has denied Elon Musk’s request to end an agreement with the SEC that requires him to have social media posts about Tesla approved by a company lawyer, popularly referred to as his “Twitter sitter.”
Recently leaked internal messages from Twitter’s Slack workplace communication platform show employees panicking about Elon Musk’s takeover of the company. One employee, who labeled Musk an “a**hole,” wrote: “We’re all going through the five stages of grief in cycles and everyone’s nerves are frazzled.”
Elon Musk took to Twitter, the platform he will soon own, to mock Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social. Musk tweeted that Trump’s platform has a “terrible name,” and “should be called Trumpet instead!” Musk’s criticism comes after he pointed out that Truth Social, launched as a Twitter alternative, has passed Twitter on a ranking of “Top Apps” in Apple’s app store.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr rejected calls from a leftist think tank to intervene in Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, calling the organization’s concerns “frivolous.”
Google’s parent company Alphabet reported weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter this week, with YouTube showing particularly weak results.
The Open App Marketplace Act, a major part of the Democrats’ antitrust push against Big Tech, is under fire from progressives and establishment pundits who argue that it will make it harder to censor “hate speech” and “disinformation.” But conservative free speech advocates argue the opposite — that the bill doesn’t do enough to safeguard free speech.
Left-wing Twitter accounts have been losing followers while conservative accounts gain followers in the wake of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s successful bid to buy the social media company.
A recent report reveals that a number of major technology companies including Facebook, Apple, and Google, have been tricked into handing over sensitive personal information about customers that was used to harass and even sexually extort minors.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas recently released leaked audio of an internal all-hands meeting at Twitter following Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s successful takeover bid for the company, here are some of the most notable moments from the meeting.
After a 12-day battle, Twitter’s board of directors relented: they accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for $54.20 a share, and take it private — with the stated goal of transforming it into a global platform for free speech.
Former Twitter CEO and free speech failure Jack Dorsey has praised Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform, calling him the “singular solution I trust” for the future of the company.
Following news of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s upcoming buyout of Twitter for $44 billion, employees at the firm have reacted with a mix of excitement, fear, and humor.