Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Tis the season to feel scared for tech jobs. According to Layoffs.fyi, as of today (Nov 20, 2022), 849 tech companies have laid off nearly 137,000 jobs in 2022. This list includes the well-publicized Meta, Amazon, and Twitter layoffs and over 75,000 jobs lost in the San Francisco Valley.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These cuts are the latest of several that have afflicted Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover in late 2022. Fewer than 2,000 employees still work at Twitter, out of roughly 7,500 who were present before the company's go-private deal. To read this article in full, please click here

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Mass layoffs at Twitter released a sizeable amount of talent into the tech ecosystem. Will it trigger a wave of new tech players?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Former Twitter VP of Design Mike Davidson is joining digital asset exchange Kraken as VP of design and research. Prior to Twitter, he founded Newsvine, which was acquired by msnbc.com where he worked following the acquisition. De Greef previously planned to retire at the end of this year but is postponing until 2023. Mike Davidson.

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ComputerWorld IT Management

MARCH 4, 2022

Social media giant Twitter has announced it will reinstate business travel immediately and reopen its offices from March 15, though employees will still be able to work remotely should they choose. Business travel is back effective immediately, and office openings will start on March 15,” he wrote.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Two major technology trade groups repping some of the biggest names in tech—including Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter—are suing the state of Texas over the state’s new law barring their platforms from cracking down on far-right content. Read more.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Facebook's parent company Meta is laying off 13% of its workforce, a week after another social media giant, Twitter, laid off half of its employees. What do these moves say about tech trends going forward and the tech labor market in 2023?

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Vox

MAY 18, 2023

Justice Clarence Thomas, who authored the Court’s opinion in Twitter v. The Supreme Court handed down two high-stakes tech decisions on Thursday — cases that, if handled ineptly, could have destroyed much of the internet and subjected social media companies to devastating liability. The good news is that none of that will happen.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Last month in global tech policy: Elon Musk conquers Twitter; the CHIPS Act lurches into action; Big Tech lobbyists caught red handed in Strasbourg; cybersecurity; the Lord of the Rings; and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

In his first two weeks running Twitter, Musk has assembled a tight-knit group of his “war-room” advisers. Since Musk is the ultimate decision-maker, it’s unclear exactly how much power they hold at Twitter, but these figures have gained overnight influence over one of the world’s most powerful platforms for online communication.

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Vox

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Chance for Vox Ravenous, carnivorous, and totally yoked: How men in tech have evolved. They can do all this because if these tech executives are one thing above all else, it is this: They are men. Then came the Obama years, when tech companies were propped up as progressive bastions of diversity and forward-thinking corporate culture.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In a post on X (Twitter), Smith said the investment goes beyond just building data centers and is “a testament to our 37-year commitment to Spain, its security, and development and digital transformation of its government, businesses, and people.” based tech giant announced that it will invest $3.44

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Steam Deck's official Twitter account posted that the giveaway is in celebration of the Game Awards, which takes place on December 8, and Valve's machine being in stock—the latter likely being a jab at the tech products that are still experiencing shortages this year.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 4, 2022

Social media giant Twitter has announced it will reinstate business travel immediately and reopen its offices from March 15, though employees will still be able to work remotely should they choose. Business travel is back effective immediately, and office openings will start on March 15,” he wrote.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Twitter is laying off 208 Seattle-based employees, according to a new filing with the Washington state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system. The New York Times last week described the layoffs at Twitter as “haphazard” as some employees learned they were laid off when they could not access internal systems.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on data security at Twitter, on Capitol Hill, September 13, 2022, in Washington, DC. In a congressional hearing, new details emerged on how thousands of Twitter employees can allegedly access users’ information.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to The Washington Post, which cites interviews and documents obtained by the publication, Twitter is following in the footsteps of other tech giants in cutting its workforce during these times of economic uncertainty.

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TechSpot

MAY 9, 2022

Workplace culture has evolved significantly across many organizations in the post-pandemic era, especially tech companies. Some prominent names like Meta/Facebook, Slack, Twitter, and more recently, Airbnb, have fully embraced remote work.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino, on stage at the 2023 Code Conference. Not at Elon Musk , the man who hired her to be the CEO of Twitter , the company he subsequently renamed X. Yaccarino also said that contrary to Musk’s previous suggestions that Twitter was in danger of bankruptcy, things had bounced back.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Akash Shendure totaled up last year’s jet emissions for 163 famous individuals from the worlds of business, tech, entertainment and sports. Some other tech titans and their rank on the list: No. Twitter axed the account in December for violating new rules implemented under Musk’s ownership.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 17, 2020

Epic went after Apple, and now the tech giant strikes back. Epic Games has noted on Twitter that Apple will take away Epic's access to develop tools. Read More.

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Vox

MAY 27, 2020

President Donald Trump has built his political brand by posting a steady stream of misleading information, conspiracy theories, and personal attacks on Twitter. Now that Twitter did something unprecedented and fact-checked two of his tweets, he’s escalating his typical behavior. It’s unlikely.

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Vox

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter for $44 billion. The world’s richest man has told Twitter that he’d like to move forward with the deal he first agreed to in April: He wants to pay $54.20 The difference between now and last spring, of course, is that in the interim Musk tried to walk away from his signed contract to buy Twitter.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 11, 2022

Gettr, just one of the interminable Facebook/Twitter clones for MAGA chuds angry about social media rules against conspiracy theories and bigotry, sold itself to potential users as a way to escape the totalitarian tyranny of tech giants like Facebook and Google. That pitch comes with a million caveats, the… Read more.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Elon Musk recently purchased social media platform Twitter. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been chaotic, to say the least. So when Musk changed his mind about buying Twitter, many believed he would somehow get out of it, even if his legal justification seemed flimsy. Major Twitter shareholders. Conservatives.

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Vox

JULY 7, 2023

Meta Instagram’s new copycat app is nowhere near as fun as Twitter. It’s natural that people want a more stable place to unload the latest thought that happened to pop into their head or, to put it in tech billionaire-speak, “engage with their followers.” Can anything be? Plus, we’ve all got serious signup fatigue.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

. | Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here. If you were accustomed to a time when Twitter — while far from perfect — was a place where you could dependably digest a wide range of breaking news, politics, celebrity gossip, or personal musings, it’s time to accept a new reality.

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Vox

APRIL 14, 2022

Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. Musk, the world’s richest person, says he wants to turn Twitter into a privately owned company because he “believe[s] free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.”. But Twitter was trading for more than $70 per share a year ago.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Twitter was wrong. Elon Musk’s layoffs at Twitter were a disaster. Layoffs are coming to Silicon Valley, and tech companies better get better at them if they want to keep from making a bad situation worse. Last week, Twitter laid off half its workforce. There’s a right and a wrong way to lay people off.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

More than a year after their release, the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles are still very difficult to find — and it seems that even Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, is looking for some tips on Twitter on how to snag one of the elusive consoles. That said, I do find this follow quite funny.

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ComputerWorld IT Management

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in April, two days after Elon Musk announced his plan to buy Twitter, Musk had a private phone call with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. One might have expected Musk to ask Nadella for advice on how to turn around the flailing Twitter — after all, Nadella had engineered perhaps the most successful tech turnaround in history.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Twitter users @NWPlayer123 (via VideoCardz) spotted the reference to FSR in the Nintendo game’s end-user license agreement (EULA). There isn’t any explanation as to how the tech might be used, though it’s speculated that it could be leveraged to improve the graphical quality/performance of games on the Switch’s 720p screen.

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Vox

JUNE 23, 2023

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Elon Musk have teased on social media this week that they’re willing to enter a cage fight. Elon Musk signaled his interest in the match on Twitter a few days ago; Zuckerberg, naturally, confirmed that he was in through Instagram. The boys are fighting. on a to-be-decided date.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Less than a week before the 2020 presidential election, three of the biggest names in tech—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey—will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about a longstanding law that protects websites from liability… Read more.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Elon Musk has been making major changes to Twitter’s workforce, company culture, and product roadmap after buying the company in late October. Elon Musk has only been in charge of Twitter since late October. Musk also might be getting Twitter into the payments business. Patrick Pleul/AFP via Getty Images.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2021

A Twitter warning posted on a tweeted video by President Trump on Wednesday. Twitter screenshot). Capitol, attracted a riveted audience on social media on Wednesday — and backlash against some tech platforms for fostering the very actions many were witnessing. Twitter screen grab). Chaos unfolding in Washington, D.C.,

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