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Musk Blames Activists For Twitter's "Massive" Drop In Ad Revenue While The Company Makes Staff Cuts

As advertisers withdrew their support due to worries about content moderation, Twitter Inc. cut half of its workforce on Friday, but claimed that the team in charge of halting the spread of misinformation suffered fewer cuts.   The social media company's employees claimed in tweets that some...

Elon Musk Is Questioned By Advertisers About The "Free-For-All" On Twitter

Elon Musk pledged to protect Twitter from becoming a "free-for-all hellscape" to advertisers. Advertisers have started asking for information on how he intends to uphold the commitment this week.   One significant advertising agency's media buyer, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of...

Maersk net profit doubles in January-September

According to the business's financial documents, the net profit of the Danish corporation A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S (Maersk) for the first three quarters of the year totaled 24.34 billion dollars, which was twice as much as a year earlier. The company's sales over the same period also increased by...

Stellantis closes Jeep production in China

The automaker Stellantis announced that it would dissolve its joint venture with the Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) of China, which produced Jeep for the domestic market. The joint company between the two automakers will soon declare bankruptcy. The joint venture's obligations, according to GAC,...

Chinese airlines lose $14.6B since the beginning of 2022

In the first three quarters of this year, the eight major publicly traded airlines in China experienced a net loss of 106 billion yuan ($14.6 billion), Yicai Global reports. According to the bureau, the country-wide lockdowns enforced as a result of the spread of COVID-19 and high fuel prices are...

General Motors suspends advertising on Twitter after Musk buys it

Following Elon Musk's acquisition of the social network, General Motors will temporarily stop running advertisements on Twitter. This "often happens when there are big changes involving media platforms," according to the American company. General Motors said in a statement that it was "working...

Big Tech Struggles With Gloomy Q4 Earnings And Projections— Amazon Drops 13%, And Meta Has Its Worst Week Ever

It was a terrible earnings week (Oct. 23-29) for Big Tech, aside from Apple.   After making unsettling predictions for the third quarter and the rest of the year, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft collectively saw their market caps decline by over $350 billion. After a decade of...

Huge Oil Company Profits Renew Calls For Windfall Taxes

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., two of the largest energy companies in the world, reported yet another round of enormous quarterly profits thanks to rising natural gas and fuel costs that have pushed up inflation globally and renewed calls for higher taxes on the industry.   Due to the...

Binance, Musk's Co-Investor, Will Assist Twitter With Blockchain

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, which has invested $500 million in Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter Inc, is forming a team to investigate how blockchain and crypto can help Twitter, according to a company spokesperson on Friday.   Binance said it will brainstorm plans and...

Musk Declares That The 'Bird Is Freed' After Twitter Acquisition; Fires Top Bosses

Elon Musk has taken over Twitter Inc with ruthless efficiency, firing top executives while providing little clarity on how he plans to achieve the ambitious goals he has set for the influential social media platform.   "The bird is freed," he tweeted after he completed his $44 billion...
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