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Musk marks TikTok as 'extremely destructive' after finding ill effects

Billionaire Elon Musk has expressed his concern over the ill effects of the social media platform 'TikTok' on certain age groups

Appointing new Twitter CEO will allow me to focus on Tesla: Elon Musk

Tesla ended the March quarter with free cash flow of $441 million, down 80 per cent from the same period last year

Twitter's new CEO is an NBCUniversal executive with deep ad industry ties

Elon Musk confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter will be NBCUniversal's Linda Yaccarino, an executive with deep ties to the advertising industry. I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter! Musk wrote in a Friday tweet. He added that Yaccarino will focus primarily on business operations" while Musk will stay closely connected to product design and new technology. Before that announcement, NBCUniversal said on Friday that Yaccarino would step down immediately as chairwoman for global advertising and partnerships. Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has long insisted that he would step down as top executive at the company, which is now called X Corp. Few expect Musk to remove himself from the decision making process at Twitter, however. While he's stepping back from the CEO title, Musk is far from likely to step back from calling the product shots, said Mike Proulx, research director at Forrester Research. Yaccarino, with deep ro

Elon Musk appointing NBC's Linda as new Twitter CEO won't change much

In about six weeks, Musk will move to executive chairman and chief technology officer, overseeing product, software and sysops, he wrote on Twitter

Weekend bites: Falling valuations, Go First, Adani, and laughing apps

In which we munch over the week's platter of news and views

Who's Linda Yaccarino, the executive likely to replace Musk as Twitter CEO?

According to a report, Linda Yaccarino had previously told her friends that she aspired to be Twitter's CEO

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NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino in talks to become Twitter's CEO

Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion last October and indicated that he'd only be in charge for a limited time to complete the organizational overhaul he thought the company needed to prosper

Don't trust it yet: Musk warns against secure messaging on Twitter

Twitter launched encrypted messaging Wednesday, offering select users the ability to communicate more securely. But its new service is much more of a baby step than a giant leap forward. For starters, it lacks basic protections that security experts consider essential for shielding messages from hackers and other prying eyes. Senders and receivers must also be subscribed to Twitter's Blue service for $11 a month ($8 for desktop-only) or otherwise affiliated with an organisation verified by Twitter for $1,000 a month plus $50 per user. The company's official message announcing the rollout promised additional features soon. But CEO Elon Musk offered his own caution via a tweet: Try it, but don't trust it yet. WHAT IS ENCRYPTED MESSAGING AGAIN? Ordinary messages sent across the internet, whether by email, direct message, Twitter or other means are generally vulnerable to interception that could allow other people or organisations to read them. That includes the companies offering the

Elon Musk asks federal appeals court to end 'Twitter Sitter' Deal

In his decision, Liman ruled that Musk willingly waived his First Amendment right to tweet without restraint, a finding Musk denied in his appeal brief

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to relaunch his show on Twitter 'soon'

This comes a month after Carlson was taken off air by Fox News following a defamation case that cost the news network $787.5 million

Twitter gets new DM feature; voice and video chat to be added soon: Musk

The feature for direct messaging will be available for use starting May 11

Twitter to remove accounts with 'no activity for several years': Elon Musk

"We're purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see followers count drop," he said

Follower count may drop: Musk as Twitter decides to purge inactive accounts

'We're purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop,' tweets Musk

Elon Musk credits father for teaching 'physics, engineering & construction'

Errol Musk had previously claimed in an interview that he used emeralds from an "under the table" mine in Zambia to finance his son's escape from South Africa to America

Over half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers not paying anymore

Reports last year showed that a total of 150,000 users originally signed up for Twitter Blue within just a few days of its launch in November

Bug exposed private Circle tweets to public; Twitter says security incident

Twitter said the bug has now been fixed, and the team knows what caused it, said report

Twitter makes second interest payment on Elon Musk's buyout debt

Twitter, which no longer has a team handling media queries, didn't specifically respond to an emailed request for comment

Elon Musk threatens to reassign NPR's Twitter account to another firm

Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to another company, according to the non-profit news organization, in an ongoing spat between Musk and media groups since his USD 44 billion acquisition of Twitter last year. So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company? Musk wrote in one email late Tuesday to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn. NPR stopped tweeting from its main account after Twitter abruptly labelled NPR's main account as state-affiliated media last month, a term that's also been used to identify outlets controlled or heavily influenced by authoritarian governments. Twitter then changed the label to government-funded media. NPR said that both labels were inaccurate and undermined its credibility noting the nonprofit news company operates independently of the U.S. government. Federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accounts for less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget, the company said. The

Musk tells Sachin Agarwal why Twitter's 'For You' algorithm is working fine

As Indian-origin entrepreneur Sachin Agarwal, Co-founder of non-profit organisation GrowSF, posted that he finds the "For You" timeline to be more valuable than the "Following" timeline