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The Information and former Twitter employees reported at least 50 more layoffs. According to Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer, even Elon Musk loyalist Esther Crawford, Twitter payments’ top executive who handled Twitter Blue, was fired. Crawford and most of the product team were laid off this weekend, according to Alex Heath of …

OnePlus may no longer release with caution. The Oppo-owned OnePlus 11 debuted in January. The 11R, targeting the expanding Indian smartphone market, came this month. The business now sells last year’s 10T and 10 Pro, three affordable Nord devices, five earphones, and a tablet. Expect a new mechanical keyboard and …

Telecom. Network and enterprise will dominate Barcelona’s huge mobile expo more than ever. Next Monday’s event appears to be focusing less on consumers. Mobile World Congress was never a consumer tech expo, but smartphone makers made it a useful launchpad. CES (held in January) is where smart homes, wearables, autos, …

The SEC says Tesla CEO Elon Musk must obtain lawyer approval before tweeting Tesla-related material. Last week, the SEC wrote to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York, saying that an earlier settlement agreement between the agency and Musk is constitutional and legitimate. Musk tweeted …

Amazon is joining the Indian government’s e-commerce program to “democratize” online shopping in South Asia and, amusingly, challenge the dominance of companies like the American retail conglomerate. Amazon said on Friday that it will join India’s non-profit Open Network for Digital Commerce, which was started by the country’s commerce ministry …

TikTok is everywhere. It’s even in cars, starting with the autumn 2023 Mercedes-Benz E-Class. MBUX, a forerunner of MB.OS, will be updated in the Mercedes-Benz E-Class. MB.OS will debut in Mercedes’ late 2024 automobiles. The Mercedes E-Class will have more than TikTok. Mercedes’ involvement in the Chinese market makes it …

Netflix reduced its subscription prices in over 100 areas over the past week as customers considered which streaming services to keep amid price hikes. Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Libya, Iran, Kenya, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines saw price drops. According to Ampere Analysis, …

After six years, Walmart sold Moosejaw to Dick’s Sporting Goods. The March closing’s financial terms were not disclosed. Walmart paid $51 million for Moosejaw in February 2017 to improve its e-commerce.Walmart used the transaction to expand into fashion. “Moosejaw joins the Walmart family to increase our assortment and expertise in …

In response to Apple’s strict privacy rules, Google added privacy nutrition labels to the Play Store last April. These labels allow developers to disclose and explain the variety of data their apps collect from users, helping consumers understand what they are signing up for. Mozilla found that top Play Store …

As generative AI’s fast-unfolding power to supercharge content-creation raises concerns about what automation might mean for free access to quality information online, Berlin-based startup Spoke AI is preparing to apply it in a more bounded (but still noisy) context: Internally, pitching information workers on tools to automatically summarize inbound communications …