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Fake Elon Musk accounts on Twitter promote bitcoin scams, one collects $170K
November 7th, 2018
Several verified Twitter accounts have been hacked to impersonate Elon Musk on, Nov. 5, with one reportedly collecting almost $170,000. After compromising verified accounts, scammers changed the profile name and picture in order to pose as the Tesla CEO. ...
Twitter rival Gab sues Google
September 18th, 2017
Gab, a Twitter rival popular with the Breitbart crowd, is suing Google. The lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday, argues that Google violated antitrust laws when it rejected Gab’s app from its Android app store. Gab says ...
Google acquires developer platform Fabric and team from Twitter
January 19th, 2017
Google is taking over Twitter’s mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics, Digits SMS login system and FastLane development automation system. Twitter launched Fabric as a modular SDK in ...
Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
December 21st, 2016
Adam Messinger, Twitter’s chief technology officer, said in a Twitter message on Tuesday that he was leaving the company. His departure follows that of Adam Bain, Twitter’s chief operating officer, who exited last month. Other top product, engineering and ...
Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
October 26th, 2016
Twitter Inc., having failed to sell itself, is planning to fire about 8 percent of its workforce as the struggling social-media company prepares to go it alone for the time being. Twitter may eliminate about 300 people, the same ...
Bitcoin wallet enables payments via Twitter
July 15th, 2016
The bitcoin wallet iPayYou has launched its “Pay-by-Twitter” feature. With this tool, users can make peer-to-peer payments on Twitter, according to a press release. The company already enables users to send bitcoin through email. Former Amazon executive Gene Kavner founded the ...
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter face legal action over hate speech
May 17th, 2016
Three French anti-racism groups on Sunday declared that they’ll be filing legal complaints against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for failing to remove “hateful” posts aimed at the black, Jewish and homosexual communities. The groups – SOS Racisme, SOS Homophobia ...
One of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE announced the launch of Social Banking via Twitter
April 26th, 2016
Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, today announced the launch of Social Banking, offering banking services via Twitter, making it the first Islamic bank in the UAE to offer banking services on a ...
Twitter shares fall on guidance, sequential user decline
February 11th, 2016
Twitter shares fell Wednesday after-hours as the company revealed that its user numbers had declined sequentially. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of 16 cents per share on $710 million in revenue. Analysts had expected Twitter to report earnings of about ...
Twitter to Revamp Leadership Under CEO Jack Dorsey
January 25th, 2016
Alex Roetter, head of engineering, and Kevin Weil, product chief, are among the four executives who are leaving Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey is revamping his top ranks as he tries to find ways to revive the social media company and earn ...
