Investors are backing Koo, an Indian alternative to Twitter, with extensive checks at a time when tensions are building between the American social network and New Delhi. The Indian startup announced on Wednesday that it had raised $ 30 million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Mirae Asset, IIFL’s venture capital fund, … Read more
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, was called on by Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) for tweeting during today’s Congressional hearing on disinformation and extremism. The tech manager’s tweet likely expressed frustration with the format of the hearing, which once again forced tech CEOs to convert their answers to complicated questions into simple “yes” or “no” answers … Read more
Another day, another hour-long congressional hearing with technical CEOs. Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai will testify at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing where they will have questions about how their companies have dealt with misinformation over the past year. The hearing, officially “Disinformation Nation: The Role of Social Media in Promoting … Read more
Graham Ivan Clark, the teenage hacker accused by authorities of being the mastermind behind the infamous Twitter Bitcoin hack last year, has pleaded guilty to 30 charges against him. Under the agreement, he agreed to serve a three-year prison sentence in a youth facility. According to the New York Times and Tampa Bay Times, he … Read more
The young hacker, accused of being the mastermind behind a high-profile Twitter account violation last year, pleaded guilty in a Florida court on Tuesday and agreed to serve three years in juvenile prison. Eighteen-year-old Graham Ivan Clark was charged with fraud after compromising the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, former President Barack Obama … Read more
If you’ve used social media a lot, you’ve seen the first tweet ever. Posted on March 21, 2006 by Twitter co-founder and current CEO Jack Dorsey, It didn’t say much, “I’m just setting up my twttr.” Thanks to the wild west of NFTs – crypto-authenticated tokens that uniquely value and verify digital objects – you … Read more
Twitter recently had talks about acquiring Indian social media startup ShareChat as the company looked for ways to expand its presence in the world’s second largest internet marketplace and build a global rival to TikTok, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The American company, which is already investing in Bangalore-based ShareChat, offered to … Read more