Microsoft will lay off about 1,000 employees, the company confirmed Tuesday. Although it is not confirmed if the layoffs are isolated in gaming divisions, employees who work for Xbox and other Microsoft-owned studios said they were being laid off, the Washington Post reported. Axios first reported the layoffs Monday evening. Microsoft declined to disclose if […]
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On Saturday, Twitter quietly rolled out its first set of App Store updates preparing Twitter Blue, its monthly subscription service, for a revamp. According to update notes on the App Store, iOS users in select countries including Canada and the U.S. will be able to rent a blue check mark next to their names for […]
Billionaire Elon Musk’s changes to social media giant Twitter are already costing some companies billions in total stock value. Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly (LLY) dipped 4.37 per cent Friday to US $352.30 — erasing over US $15 billion in market cap — after a Twitter Blue verified account impersonating the brand promised free insulin. The […]
Canada’s last remaining COVID-19 travel restrictions were dropped Oct. 1, with much focus on ArriveCAN, which is no longer mandatory for cross-border air travellers. What’s been lost in the discussion is how much pandemic-fighting technology is getting plugged in at airports in Canada and around the world. While airports are no longer the scene of […]
Hundreds of workers fled Twitter following CEO Elon Musk’s ultimatum to either subscribe to a new “hardcore” work culture with gruelling hours by Thursday evening, or leave with three months’ severance pay. The mass staff exodus has some industry insiders and ex-tweeps speculating that the site might be headed for a crash. As millions of […]
With Twitter under new management and as fears for its future circulate, throngs of users are fleeing the site for alternatives — or at least they’re making accounts on those platforms, just in case. One such rising star taking over the trending page is a currently mobile-only app called Hive Social, which skyrocketed in popularity […]
As advertisers reportedly flee Twitter and employees depart, whether by choice or layoff, Elon Musk is taking jabs at tech giant Apple. On Twitter — Musk’s preferred platform of choice even before he closed a deal to buy the social media company for $44 billion — the CEO called out Apple and fellow chief executive […]
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At a glance, the above three images look just like me. Look closer and you might notice that my skin is too smooth, my clothes distorted in places — details that might be dismissed as an overdone Photoshop edit. Thing is, I never posed for these pictures. Nor have I ever sported shoulder-length hair or […]
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, will no longer be acquiring the social media site Parler, the company said in a statement. “This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November,” the company said in a statement. “Parler will continue to pursue future opportunities for growth and the evolution of the platform […]