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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
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      Big Tech groups disclose $10bn in charges from job culls and cost cutting

      Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft reveal hefty price tag as they rein in spending

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      Meta Platforms
      Meta shares soar on resilient revenue and $40bn in buybacks

      Mark Zuckerberg promises ‘year of efficiency’ as parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp looks to contain costs

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      Meta: taking spending back to reality Premium content

      Mark Zuckerberg needs to rethink his spending on the metaverse

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      What’s behind the job cuts in Big Tech?

      The FT’s Robert Armstrong explains why he thinks Big Tech is really cutting back

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      Older videos platform introduces financial schemes to lure new content creators amid a slowdown in digital advertising

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      Social media app’s shares drop after-hours as it reports slowest pace of revenue growth since going public in 2017

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      Social media company makes instalment to group of seven lenders as concerns over financial health have mounted

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
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      Company has started applying for US state licences in bid for fresh revenues beyond advertising

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
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      Slimming down Big Tech Premium content

      Picking out bloat isn’t so easy

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
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      Big Tech got the pandemic wrong but one company emerged on top

      Apple is the only one of the bunch to avoid mass job cuts so far

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      Also in today’s newsletter, Lockheed ready to supply F-16s and Musk upbeat on Tesla’s prospects

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
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      Former US president had been suspended from platforms after January 6 Capitol riots

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      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
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      Activists seem to think so

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      Her critics and supporters describe a rare leader from social media company’s old guard to win new owner’s favour

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      The complex challenge of moderating sensitive and potentially explicit live content for children and vulnerable users

    • Saturday, 21 January, 2023
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      Musk vs Arnault: the tale of two tycoons

      The takeovers of Tiffany and Twitter reveal vast differences between the businessmen

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
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      Elon Musk plays down influence of his tweets on Tesla’s share price

      Electric-car maker’s CEO begins testifying in investor lawsuit over claim to have ‘funding secured’ for go-private deal

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      Extremist activity has increased on Twitter since monitoring staff were sacked, says UN-backed Tech Against Terrorism

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
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      Twitter confronts its ‘un-due diligence-able debt’ Premium content

      Plus, Vladimir Putin meddles in foreign banks’ attempts to leave Russia and ‘meme-stock king’ Ryan Cohen takes on Alibaba

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      Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
      A turning point for Tesla?

      The FT’s Richard Waters answers whether Tesla’s golden age of growth is over

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      Where the UK’s ‘world-leading’ online rules lost their way

      What is left looks like a regulatory hodgepodge, something that parliament could yet address

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