SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 10 (AFP): Twitter on Wednesday unveiled — and then almost immediately scrapped — a new gray “official” label for some high-profile accounts as Elon Musk struggles to revamp the highly influential platform following his $44 billion buyout. “I just killed it,” Musk tweeted just hours after the new tag was added to government accounts as well …

  BEIJING, Nov 7 (FD): Apple said Covid restrictions have “temporarily impacted” production at the world’s largest iPhone factory in central China, warning that customers will now face longer wait times ahead of the holiday season. Foxconn, Apple’s principal subcontractor, locked down its massive factory in Zhengzhou last month after a spike in infections — in line with China’s zero-Covid …

  (Reuters): Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with the matter, with an announcement planned as early as Wednesday. Meta declined to comment on the WSJ report. Facebook parent Meta in October forecasted a weak holiday quarter and …

  WhatsApp has launched several new privacy features for its users recently. One of the features is hiding online status. WhatsApp launched the online status hiding feature a couple of months ago and now the feature is available for all users on the iOS and Android platforms. So, if you want to hide your WhatsApp online status from your boss …

  A few days before acquiring the microblogging platform Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk ran a poll asking his followers whether he should “bring back Vine”, an extremely popular short-video application that was founded in 2012 and acquired by Twitter the same year. Vine probably inspired TikTok videos and eventually Instagram reels we are addicted to today. Shockingly, nearly 70% of …

  SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 2 (FD): New Twitter head Elon Musk has announced that twitter site will charge $8 per month to verify users’ accounts. “Power to the people! Blue for $8/month,” the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted in reference to the platform’s famous blue checkmark, saying the new plan would upend the “current lords & peasants system” and create a new …

  SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 1 (FD): Elon Musk has become Twitter’s sole director after finalising his $44 billion purchase of the social media site and dissolving its corporate board, documents filed Monday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed. The documents state that the “consummation of the Merger” occurred on October 27, at which point “Mr. Musk became …

  HONG KONG, Oct 31  (Reuters): Hong Kong’s government has proposed allowing retail investors to trade in cryptocurrencies and crypto exchange-traded funds – a move it hopes will help it rebuild its fintech hub status. The city, which previously proposed limiting crypto trade to professional investors, has seen planned rules for digital assets heavily criticised for stifling innovation, prompting a …

  A satellite of US space agency NASA was able to capture an image of the sun where it appears to be smiling with a pair of eyes and a turned-up mouth. The agency tweeted the image, captured last week, with the caption, “Today, Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the sun ‘smiling.’ Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the …

  SAN FRANCISO, Oct 27 (AFP):  Elon Musk looks set to meet a Friday deadline to seal his on-again, off-again deal to buy Twitter, avoiding a trial over the $44 billion contract that he admits is overpriced. After he sought to terminate the sale, Twitter filed a lawsuit to hold Musk to the agreement he inked in April to purchase …