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PM Modi congratulates athletes for performance at Asian Athletics C'ships

India finished the competition at third place with 27 medals, consisting of six gold, 12 silver and nine bronze medals. Japan topped the charts with 37 medals

Musk told to focus on Tesla as electric car rivals BYD, GM pick up pace

Rival automakers pouncing on booming demand for electric vehicles pose the biggest challenge for Tesla over the next two years

Top headlines: Twitter cash flow negative; traffic advisory issued in Delhi

Business Standard brings you the latest headlines at this hour

Twitter cash flow remains negative, rate limit to be changed, says Musk

Separately, the billionaire announced late Saturday the platform will increase the number of tweets verified accounts can see each day by 50%, following complaints from users

US lawmakers wary of Zuckerberg's Threads but about half have signed up

Members of Congress for now appear to be largely putting those concerns aside rather than risk missing out of a popular new communications tool

Twitter starts sharing advertising revenue with verified content creators

Twitter fulfilled its commitment and announced to share advertising revenue with verified users who have more than 5 million monthly impressions on their posts in the last three months

Musk still owes us $1.6 mn for legal bills: Ex-Twitter executives

The group - led by ex-Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal - says the legal bills accrued in connection with lawsuits and government probes of the company's activities while they ran it

Meta's Twitter challenger 'Threads' to raise stakes for Snap, Pinterest

Amid gains in megacap tech stocks, Meta has soared 161% this year, second only to Nvidia Corp. among components of the Nasdaq 100 Index

Twitter asks court to end US FTC order over its data privacy practices

Twitter in the filing said the FTC has "pummeled" the company with "burdensome letters and requests for depositions," issuing demands for information as frequently as one letter every other week

Musk's Twitter sues four Texas entities for data scraping, seeks damages

Musk, meanwhile, reiterated the reason for data limits in a reply to a tweet that referenced the data-scraping lawsuit

Twitter, ChatGPT down for thousands of users, says outage tracking website

OpenAI said it has disabled logins while it works to get the service back up

Can Threads destroy Twitter? Everything you must know about the newcomer

Zuckerberg's Threads is trending. And this latest contender in the social media arena might just give Twitter a run for its money. Watch the video to know about Threads. >

TMS Ep472: Data Protection Bill, Threads, markets, rupee global currency

What does the Data Protection Bill imply for privacy? Can Threads pose a real threat to Twitter? How will India Inc fare in Q1FY24? What is internationalisation of the rupee? All answers here

Elon Musk claims lawyers overbilled in fight to make him buy Twitter

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, among most profitable firms in US, exploited a brief, vulnerable period just as Musk was closing $44 bn deal, according to complaint filed in San Francisco state court

Weekend Bites: Mukesh Ambani's ides of July, and the threat of Threads

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

Can you delete Threads account without getting rid of Instagram? Check here

Threads uses an Instagram account to access the app, even though they remain two separate applications

A day after Instagram Threads launch, Jack Dorsey calls it 'Twitter clone'

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also raised concerns about the permissions and data access required by Meta's new app, Threads

Twitter accuses Threads of using its trade secrets, threatens legal action

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new, text-based app called Threads, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a "copycat" app. Since launching Threads Wednesday night, Meta's new app has collected tens of millions of sign ups. The app, which was created by the company's Instagram team, arrives at a time when many are looking for Twitter alternatives to escape Elon Musk's raucous oversight of the platform since acquiring it last year for USD 44 billion. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone responded to the report of Spiro's letter on Threads Thursday afternoon, writing, "no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee that's just not a thing". In the letter, which Semafor first reported on Thursday, Spiro s

Recent Twitter modifications pose problems for users, say analysts

Some users on microblogging site Twitter are shifting to third-party apps since the company has made verification necessary within 30 days for accessing TweetDeck, a move which industry watchers believe could give an edge to rival platforms. Since the removal of Teams feature from the Elon Musk-led app, reported outages and a number of changes announced, users have been taking to the platform to report issues of increased advertisements and appearances of blocked and muted accounts on their Twitter feed. A user tweeted, "Twitter just has too many ads and now you're locking Tweet Deck behind a paywall and limiting the number of tweets I can read in a day... unless I pay." "If we're going to be rate-limited based on view count, why am I forced to view accounts I blocked?," another user tweeted. Heads of enterprise technology platforms said that their work has been impacted due to the changes over the past 3-4 months on Twitter. "We have to switch screens and use third party tools fo

Twitter silently does away with the requirement to log in to see tweets

The micro-blogging platform prevented users from checking out a tweet if they were not logged in and prompted them to log in for the same