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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

Elon Musk touches on Twitter criticism, workload at G-20 business forum

It's not easy being Elon Musk. That was the message the new Twitter owner and billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX had for younger people who might seek to emulate his entrepreneurial success. Be careful what you wish for, Musk told a business forum in Bali on Monday when asked what an up-and-coming Elon Musk of the East should focus on. I'm not sure how many people would actually like to be me. They would like to be what they imagine being me, which is not the same, he continued. I mean, the amount that I torture myself, is the next level, frankly. Musk was speaking at the B-20 business forum ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies taking place on the Indonesian resort island. He joined the conference by video link weeks after completing his heavily scrutinised takeover of Twitter. He had been expected to attend the event in person, but Indonesian government minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, who's responsible for coordinating preparations for the summit, said Mus

Fix your companies or Congress will: US Senator Markey warns Elon Musk

US Senator Ed Markey has warned Elon Musk for mocking him on Twitter, telling him to "fix your companies, or Congress will".

Outsourced content moderators sacked in fresh job cuts at Musk's Twitter

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job. Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content. But many of those content watchdogs have now headed out the door, first when Twitter fired much of its full-time workforce by email on Nov. 4 and now as it moves to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs. Melissa Ingle, who worked at Twitter as a contractor for more than a year, was one of a number of contractors who said they were terminated Saturday. She said she's concerned that there's going to be an increase in abuse on Twitter with the number of workers leaving. I love the platform and I really enjoyed working at the company and trying to make it better. And I'm just really fearful of what's going to slip through the cracks, she said Sunday. Ingle, a dat

Twitter to enable organisations to identify their associated accounts: Musk

"Rolling out soon," Musk in a tweet on Sunday said. "Twitter will enable organizations to identify which other Twitter accounts are actually associated with them."