Free speech advocate Elon Musk has bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to a regulatory filing published Monday by the U.S. SEC…
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Twitter misses expectations on earnings, revenue, and user growth
Twitter reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 Thursday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth…
Apple tells U.S. senators that tech bills will threaten privacy and security
Apple warned U.S. senators Tuesday that proposed bipartisan antitrust legislation aimed at curbing the power of big technology companies…
Apple CEO Tim Cook personally lobbying against the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The lobbying effort by Big Tech companies, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is personally lobbying against the legislation, is picking up…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey expected to step down
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role. Dorsey, 45, currently serves as both the CEO of Twitter and Square…
Twitter, Uber, and other firms are giving their engineers M1 Max MacBook Pros
Twitter, Uber, and many other tech companies are upgrading their engineers’ Macs with the incredibly powerful M1 Max MacBook Pro with 64 GB…
Twitter plummets 11% on concerns about Apple privacy policy changes
Twitter on Tuesday missed Wall Street expectations for user growth and investor concern about the potential impact of Apple’s privacy poli
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy feature had ‘modest impact’ on YouTube, Twitter revenue
Apple Inc.’s ad-tracking changes have had a “modest impact on YouTube’s revenues.” Twitter echoed that description…
Apple’s secret ‘double agent’ spy lurked inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak communities
Apple’s secret ‘double agent’ spent years inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak community. He was also spying for Apple …
Medical autonomy app Unjected banned by Apple over ‘misinformation’
A new social app, Unjected, designed as a community for the unvaccinated is has been pulled from the App Store by Apple over “misinformation”…
UK man arrested for 2020 hack of Apple’s Twitter account
A citizen of the United Kingdom was arrested today in Spain pursuant to a U.S. request for his arrest in connection with the Twitter hack …
President Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet CEOs over being banned from their platforms
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced class action lawsuits against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and…
Justice Thomas argues for regulating Google, Facebook, and Twitter as public utilities
Justice Thomas is laying out an argument for why companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google should be regulated as public utilities …
Twitter CFO says Apple’s new privacy change will level the playing field
Twitter CFO Ned Segal said the company is feeling confident as it prepares for Apple’s planned privacy update to iOS 14 where users will…
Twitter warns user growth to slow; expects ‘modest impact’ from Apple’s privacy push
Twitter on Tuesday beat quarterly sales and profit estimates but missed expectations on user growth and warned this rate would…
Texas AG demands Big Tech explain deplatforming President Trump and Parler
After Google and Apple removed Parler and President Trump’s Twitter and other accounts were blocked, Texas AG Ken Paxton wants some answers…
‘Non-biased, free speech’ Twitter rival Parler tops Apple App Store for first time
Social media app and Twitter rival Parler topped the Apple App Store list of most popular apps for the first time over the weekend…
U.S. Senate committee grills Twitter, Google, Facebook CEOs in censorship hearing
The Twitter CEO, Facebook CEO, and Google CEO on Wednesday defended Section 230 during a hearing on censorship before the…
Senate panel compels CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify over political bias
A U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to compel testimony from the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter as lawmakers opened a new front…
Twitter breach caused by employees who fell for social engineering scheme
That big Twitter breach earlier this week was caused by employees who fell for a social engineering scheme. Apple’s Twitter account was breached by…
Why President Trump’s Twitter account wasn’t part of massive hack
The team’s conclusion: The hack was coming from an account inside the house, yet perhaps the most high-profile Twitter accounts of all, President Trump’s …
Twitter says about 130 high profile accounts were hit in attack this week
Late on Thursday, Twitter disclosed that hackers had targeted about 130 accounts during this week’s cyber attack, an incident in which profiles of many…
U.S. senator demands answers after massive Twitter hack
A successful attack on your system represents a threat to privacy and data security… Did this Twitter hack threaten the security of the President’s account?
Apple’s official Twitter account hacked by Bitcoin scammers
Apple’s Twitter account has been breached by Bitcoin scammers who have also hacked the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates…
Parler CEO invited to U.S. House’s antitrust investigation into Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google
U.S. representatives Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) asked the head of upstart social media service Parler to weigh in ahead of…
Apple to stream Dickinson with Hailee Steinfeld on Twitter today for free
Apple TV+ will be holding a Dickinson Watch Party on Twitter today. “Dickinson” is a half-hour comedy series that audaciously explores the constraints…
U.S. government asks Apple, Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and Twitter to ensure online platforms are not used to spur violence
The U.S. government sent a letter to chief executives of five large tech companies — Apple, Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and Twitter to ensure online…
After Twitter labels, censors, and suspends, Parler hits No.1 on Apple’s App Store
After a surge in sign-ups after Twitter censored and suspended conservative meme-makers to heads of state, the free speech social media platform Parler …
Twitter tests new voice tweeting feature exclusively on Apple’s iOS
Twitter on Wednesday said it is testing a new feature that will allow iOS users to tweet using their voice, capturing up to 140 seconds of audio…
Apple-backed tech group’s lawsuit says President Trump’s social media order is unconstitutional
An advocacy group backed by Apple filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that would remove or change…
How to potentially profit from President Trump’s battle with Twitter and Facebook
The escalation in the battle between President Trump and social media companies such as Twitter and Facebook could dent the investment theses on each…
Trump administration discusses coronavirus response with tech firms
Trump administration officials, including U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios who led the call, discussed the response to the coronavirus…
Trump administration to meet with Apple, others to discuss ways to control coronavirus outbreak
Trump administration officials will meet reps from Apple and other large tech companies on Wednesday to coordinate efforts over the coronavirus outbreak…
Apple pulls out of SXSW 2020 over coronavirus concerns, cancels planned Apple TV+ premieres
As concerns heighten over the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Apple has pulled out of their participation in the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2020 festival…
Twitter testing labeling ‘fake news’ with bright orange warnings
Twitter is experimenting with adding bright orange warning labels directly beneath what it deems to be “fake news” according to a leaked demo…
Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders in U.S. presidential race
Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders than any other presidential candidate, with a total of $53,626 going to Bernie Sanders in the Q419…
Hostile to customers and in thrall to China, Apple doesn’t deserve a pass
Monopolists are endlessly inventing ways of extracting rents from their customers and suppliers. In fact, the saying works even outside the free-for-data model of Facebook and Google…
Twitter to soon let users limit or disable replies
Twitter has been on a long-term mission to overhaul how people have conversations on its platform, both to make them easier to follow…
Apple faces harsh regulatory environment in Russia in 2020
Under a piece of legislation that comes into effect July 1, all computers and mobile devices sold in Russia will have to have preinstalled Russian software…
Twitter finally supports Apple’s Live Photos
Twitter included a dramatic and silly video to introduce the Live Photos functionality…
How to install Twitter as a Progressive Web App on Mac
Want the Twitter web experience but in app form? Here’s how to install Twitter as a web app on your Mac…
Twitter will no longer accept political ads; gauntlet thrown to Facebook
In an implicit swipe at the FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s position on running false political ads on Facebook, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday the company would no longer accept political ads…
