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Twitter to relaunch premium subscription service 'Blue' after debacle

Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed. The social media company said on Saturday it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features starting Monday. The blue checkmark was originally given to companies, celebrities, government entities and journalists verified by the platform. After Elon Musk bought Twitter for USD 44 billion in October, he launched a service granting blue checks to anyone willing to pay USD 8 a month. But it was inundated by imposter accounts, including those impersonating Musk's businesses Tesla and SpaceX, so Twitter suspended the service days after its launch. The relaunched service will cost USD 8 a month for web users and USD 11 a month for iPhone users. Twitter says subscribers will see fewer ads, be able to post longer videos and have their tweets featured more prominently.

HCL Tech's shares drop most since mid-Jan on downbeat revenue outlook

Shares of HCL Technologies Ltd fell nearly 7% on Friday, in their sharpest intraday drop since mid-January, after the IT services firm warned furloughs and spending cuts

Twitter Files: Select group placed people on secret blacklists, says report

Twitter employees build blacklists and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts, according to the second installment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files"

Microsoft adds free of charge communities feature to create groups on Teams

American tech giant Microsoft has launched a new communities feature for Microsoft Teams, which will help users explore the best parts of Teams free of charge to create and organize groups

Meta bars employees from discussing abortion, vaccine efficacy at work

Meta (formerly Facebook) has reportedly told its employees not to discuss sensitive issues like abortion, gun control, pending legislation and vaccine efficacy at workplace

No hiring downturn at IITs as international firms pitch job offers

Consulting, finance, core and international trading companies take the lead in chasing talent

Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' implicates Indian-origin lawyer Vijaya Gadde

The 'Twitter Files revealed by Elon Musk has implicated Vijaya Gadde, the Indian-origin former head of legal, policy and trust at the company

Meta pledges $1 mn for extended reality fellowship programme in India

Initiative will help developers contribute to open-source projects on XR technology and lay the foundation for affordable, appropriate India-specific solutions localised to Indic languages

HCLTech signs multi-year contract with Swiss MRO firm SR Technics

HCLTech's role is to digitally transform the Swiss company's business, will implement a new greenfield SAP S/4HANA environment hosted on Microsoft Azure using RISE with SAP

Smart pickup in good jobs

The estimated 0.7 million additional jobs created by listed companies may easily more than offset the recent layoffs seen in tech companies

Amazon to shut down distribution unit in India, focus on core businesses

The move is a part of the e-commerce firm's strategy to focus on its core business and close-fledging units it has launched such as edtech and food delivery, sources say

We're hiring, says Elon Musk; Twitter 2.0 to have payments feature

His "Twitter 2.0 The Everything App" will have features like encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets and payments, according to the tweet

Twitter will launch gold, grey checks besides blue tick: Elon Musk

Twitter's account verification program is finally set to launch next week

To 'make Amazon pay', Indian trade unions join Black Friday protest

Agitation part of global campaign against e-commerce firm

Amazon's Black Friday: Several Indian trade unions to join protests

The campaign is being coordinated by an international coalition of trade unions, with the support of environmental and civil society groups

HireQuotient bags investment from Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal

This comes after the company raised $1.8 million in pre-series A funding last year from Sumant Sinha of ReNew Power, Mohan Lakhamraju of Great Learning, Sujeet Kumar of Udaan; and Kunal Shah of CRED

China proposes tough penalties for unfair practices adopted by tech firms

The move is another regulatory response to big tech companies' use of market dominance and advanced technology to undermine competition

HP Inc to reduce global headcount by up to 6,000 employees as demand slows

PC and printer major HP Inc is joining the ongoing tech layoff season and will lay off nearly 4,000-6,000 employees

Falling rupee, rising costs, job insecurity dampen study-abroad sentiment

Mass layoffs by tech biggies add to concern, but demand from non-metros robust

IITs likely to see less placement offers this year amid tech slump: Report

The impact on IITs is likely to be less severe than in other engineering colleges as the companies will continue to hire good talent and 'maintain a relationship with these premier tech colleges'