Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, Meta’s in trouble and it’s time to admit self-driving cars ain’t gonna happen • TechCrunch

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most examine (Elon edition, rather)

Elon did it: He bought Twitter. The $44 billion acquisition closed this 7 days and on working day 1, the platform’s new owner “cleaned dwelling,” Taylor and Amanda create, firing CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of authorized, coverage and belief Vijaya Gadde. The acquire capped off months of ups and downs, and this 7 days was no diverse. Darrell rounded up some highlights.

Elon’s layoff about-face: Though Elon Musk immediately fired some folks at the prime, before this 7 days in a reversal from his layoff declaration very last 7 days, he stated he won’t really lay off 75% of Twitter’s staff — or 5,600 folks — writes Rebecca, citing a Bloomberg report.

Apple’s Elon issue: Darrell’s headline suggests it all, actually: “Twitter’s Elon trouble could soon turn into Apple’s Elon challenge, as well.” At problem is that Apple up to date its developer tips this week, 1 of which “seeks lease on profits produced by social networks about promoted posts.”

Argo AI shutdown: Autonomous auto startup Argo AI, flush at launch in 2017 with $1 billion, has shut down. Its pieces, writes Kirsten Korosec, are “being absorbed into its two main backers: Ford and VW.”

Speaking of autonomous vehicles: Following the Argo AI news strike, Darrell took to the web site to explore the reality that, no, autonomous vehicles just aren’t heading to take place.

MrBeast’s value: Amanda asks if MrBeast, or 24-year-aged YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, is really worth the $1.5 billion he’s valuing his business enterprise at.

Meta is in issues: That’s the headline. Meta claimed its 3rd-quarter success this 7 days and they weren’t wonderful. As Taylor writes: “With the Instagram part of the company not wanting so scorching recently, Meta has quintupled down on the metaverse without the need of inspecting if it even is familiar with what users want at all these days. And right after transforming the name of the organization although ruining a properly wonderful term in the approach, there are no simple consider-backs.” Meta really was a beautifully fantastic phrase.

Google Pixel 7’s “dumb” flaw: Haje took a image by an plane window and discovered a reflection induced by the reflective chrome surrounding the phone’s digital camera lens. “It’s a really frequent use situation for most photography applications, which will make it all the tougher to grok why Google went out of its way to make that encounter worse.”

audio roundup

• On Equity this 7 days, we share with you a person of Natasha Mascarenhas’s Disrupt panels. She talked to Chief co-founders Lindsay Kaplan and Carolyn Childers about the long term of their private membership club for gals in leadership positions.
• This week on Identified, Darrell and Jordan sat down with Shanthi Rajan from development administration software program company Linarc to talk about breaking into a slow-altering business, constructing a staff with talent throughout the world and performing with shoppers to make the most beneficial merchandise doable.
• And on Chain Reaction, Anita and Jacquelyn chat about Apple’s new Application Shop suggestions, Reddit’s foray into the NFT house and whether or not the U.K.’s new key minister will are living up to the hoopla he’s obtained from the crypto community.

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5 strategies for launching in a crowded internet3 gaming marketplace. Contributor Corey Wilton explains the actions that will set you aside when searching for money.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Challenge. Haje usually passes on tearing down pre-seed rounds, but he went for it this 7 days with the Palau Challenge, which was started by qualified kite-surfer Jerome Cloetens, who is taking on local weather change.