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Elon Musk floats possibility of someone succeeding him at Tesla

Murdoch, who did not name the potential successor, was testifying in a trial over Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package

Twitter working on feature to split long text into thread automatically

In response to these tweets, Musk said the team is working on making thread writing easier

Former Twitter CEO Dorsey tweets 'nobody knows anything', Musk reacts

The first two weeks of Musk's ownership of Twitter have been marked by rapid change and chaos

I don't want to be CEO of Twitter or any company, says Elon Musk: Report

Elon Musk has said that he does not want to be the CEO of any company, be it Tesla or Twitter.

Musk to find new Twitter head, tells staff to choose hardcore work or leave

'There's an initial burst of activity needed post-acquisition to reorganize the company. But then I expect to reduce my time at Twitter'

SpaceX mulling secondary share sale at $150 billion valuation: Report

The offering would be aimed at helping employees and shareholders cash out, two of the sources said

CEO Elon Musk testifies in lawsuit over Tesla compensation package

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the witness stand on Wednesday to defend himself in a shareholder lawsuit challenging a compensation package he was awarded by the company's board of directors that is potentially worth more than USD 55 billion. Musk denied that he dictated terms of the compensation package or attended any meetings at which the plan was discussed by the board, its compensation committee, or a working group that helped develop it. I was entirely focused on the execution of the company, he said. Plaintiff's attorney Greg Varallo spent much of his early cross-examination trying to draw Musk into admitting that he controls Tesla to such an extent that he can sway the board to do his bidding. Among other things, Varallo questioned Musk about his title of Technoking, a role that Musk has previously noted comes with panache and great dance moves. I think comedy is legal, Musk told Varallo, who had questioned whether Musk was stone-cold sober when he came up with the title. Varall

Elon Musk gives Twitter employees Thursday deadline to decide job fate

Elon Musk says Twitter is a software and servers company at its heart and wants employees to decide by Thursday evening if they want to remain a part of the business, according to an email the new owner sent to Twitter workers. Musk wrote that employees will need to be extremely hardcore" to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0" and that long hours at high intensity will be needed for success. Musk said Twitter will be much more engineering-driven, with employees who write great code comprising the majority of the team. The billionaire, who completed the USD 44 billion takeover of the San Francisco company in late October, has already fired much of its full-time workforce by email on November 4 and is moving to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs. Musk asked workers to click yes on a link provided in the email if they want to be part of the new Twitter". He said that employees had until 5 pm Eastern on Thursday to reply to the link. Employees who don't reply by that time will

Twitter starts working on end-to-end encryption for direct messages

Musk had announced that the micro-blogging platform would soon allow organisations to identify their associated accounts

Amazon layoffs in India may be higher than other tech majors: Report

Including direct and indirect jobs, Amazon employs over 1.1 million people in India

Elon Musk to relaunch Twitter's blue tick subscription on November 29

With the new release, changing someone's verified name will cause the loss of the blue check "until name is confirmed by Twitter to meet terms of service", Musk said.

Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia & many other countries: Musk

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has said Twitter is very slow in India and many other countries. Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia & many other countries. This is a fact, not a claim. 10 to 15 secs to refresh homeline tweets is common. Sometimes, it doesn't work at all, especially on Android phones. The only question is how much delay is due to bandwidth/latency/app, Musk, Twitter's new owner, tweeted. In another tweet, he said he would like to apologise for Twitter being super slow in many countries. The app is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline! I was told ~1200 RPCs independently by several engineers at Twitter, which matches # of microservices. The ex-employee is wrong, he said. In another tweet, he said Same app in the US takes ~2 secs to refresh (too long), but ~20 secs in India, due to bad batching/verbose comms. Actually useful data transferred is low. There are ~1200 microservices server side, of which ~40 are critical to Twitter .

Tesla CEO Elon Musk to face two tough trials this week amid Twitter mess

Taken together, the twin trials represent a critical test for Musk's multitasking skills, reports The Verge.

Elon Musk publicly punishes Twitter engineers who call him out online

Musk's changes have led to a lack of communication internally in terms of who is in charge and what the company's priorities are, current and former staffers say.

Balenciaga joins other brands in quitting Twitter after Musk's takeover

Other companies have paused advertising on the platform, including General Motors, Volkswagen, Pfizer and General Mills.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk 'fires' app developer from his team via tweet

Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who has been laying off employees and contractors of the micro-blogging platform, has fired yet another member of his Twitter team and that too seemingly with a tweet.The person whose employment was terminated by Musk is an Android developer named Eric Frohnhoefer who had stated in his tweet that Musk's assessment of Twitter being slow as the app is doing ">1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render timelines," was wrong.On late Sunday night, Musk tweeted, "Btw, I'd like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!"Later, Eric cited Musk's tweet and wrote, "I've spent ~6 years working on Twitter for Android and I can say that this is wrong."Following this, the richest man in the world asked him, "Then please correct me. What is the right number?" and also asked, "Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix ...

'Aliens and deep tunnels': Elon Musk offers vision for future at G20

The Twitter owner appeared by video link on Monday to address business leaders in Bali on the sidelines of the G20 summit

Elon Musk now lays off 4,400 contractual workers at Twitter: Report

Contractors aren't being notified at all, they're just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system, tweeted Platformer's Casey Newton

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Twitter spending $13 million every year on meals at San Francisco HQ: Musk

Replying to former vice president of Work Transformation Tracy Hawkins' claim that the attendance at HQ was between 20-50 per cent, Elon Musk said that the average occupancy was below 10 per cent