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  • Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. The biggest Bitcoin event in the world brings a sold-out crowd of 12,000 attendees and thousands more to Miami for a two-day conference. Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defends the company’s sale to Elon Musk: It’s a ‘fresh reset’

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02: Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)Tech

    Twitter resumes selling blue check marks to users after the previous try devolved into chaos

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
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    Elon Musk says Apple has ‘fully resumed’ advertising on Twitter following meeting with Tim Cook

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)Tech

    Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ Twitter culture is backfiring. So many workers are quitting that the operations are at risk, sources say

    By Kurt Wagner, Davey Alba, and others
  • GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)Tech

    Elon Musk softens his remote-work mandate at Twitter after many staffers opt to quit rather than continue in his ‘hardcore’ office environment

    By Kurt Wagner, Davey Alba, and others
  • FUERSTENWALDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk arrives to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)Tech

    Despite praising free speech, Elon Musk fires Twitter engineers who criticize him online

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla’s more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn’t a bailout of the struggling solar provider. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Twitter lawyer to employees fearing a FTC crackdown over privacy violations: No, you won’t go to jail

    By Ryan Gallagher and Kurt Wagner
  • Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., listens as Jim Bridenstine, administrator of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), not pictured, speaks during an event at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. SpaceXs Elon Musk and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine staged a public show of support for one another at the rocket companys headquarters Thursday, weeks after the two traded barbs over the closely held companys delayed efforts to fly astronauts for the first time. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Elon Musk warns that a Twitter bankruptcy is possible after telling employees that ‘difficult times’ are ahead

    By Kurt Wagner, Edward Ludlow, and others
  • TOPSHOT – This video grab taken from a video posted on the Twitter account of billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk on October 26, 2022 shows himself carrying a sink as he enters the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk changed his Twitter profile to “Chief Twit” and posted video of himself walking into the social network’s California headquarters carrying a sink, days before his contentious takeover of the company must be finalized. (Photo by various sources / AFP) (Photo by -/Twitter account of Elon Musk/AFP via Getty Images)Success

    Musk orders all Twitter staff back to the office in first company-wide email — and any exceptions will need his personal approval

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on “An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors” in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on October 23, 2019.Tech

    Mark Zuckerberg to begin biggest job cuts ever at Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CA – NOVEMBER 04: Twitter headquarters stands on Market Street on November 4, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Twitter Inc reportedly began laying off employees across its departments on Friday as new owner Elon Musk is reportedly looking to cut around half of the company’s workforce. (Photo by David Odisho/Getty Images)Tech

    Oops. Twitter is already trying to rehire workers Elon Musk fired days ago, sources say

    By Kurt Wagner, Edward Ludlow, and others
  • Twitter headquarters in San FrancicoTech

    Here’s the memo that Elon Musk’s Twitter sent out to the entire staff about massive layoffs

    By Kurt Wagner, Edward Ludlow, and others
  • Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla’s more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn’t a bailout of the struggling solar provider.Tech

    Elon Musk will start laying off thousands of Twitter’s workers on Friday amid a growing exodus of advertisers

    By Kurt Wagner, Edward Ludlow, and others
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    Elon Musk plans to cut about 3,700 Twitter jobs, half of all employees, sources say

    By Edward Ludlow, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • Elon Musk pauses and looks down as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. – Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk delivered an eagerly-awaited update on SpaceX’s Starship, a prototype rocket the company is developing for crewed interplanetary exploration. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Despite complaints, Elon Musk plans to start charging Twitter users $8 monthly for verification check marks as soon as Monday

    By Kurt Wagner, Edward Ludlow, and others