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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Elon did it: He purchased Twitter. The $44 billion acquisition shut this 7 days and on day 1, the platform’s new proprietor “cleaned dwelling,” Taylor and Amanda generate, firing CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of legal, plan and trust Vijaya Gadde. The invest in capped off months of ups and downs, and this week was no distinctive. Darrell rounded up some highlights.

Elon’s layoff about-deal with: While Elon Musk straight away fired some individuals at the prime, before this 7 days in a reversal from his layoff declaration past week, he claimed he won’t actually lay off 75% of Twitter’s personnel — or 5,600 folks — writes Rebecca, citing a Bloomberg report.

Apple’s Elon problem: Darrell’s headline suggests it all, truly: “Twitter’s Elon challenge could soon come to be Apple’s Elon problem, as well.” At problem is that Apple current its developer pointers this 7 days, just one of which “seeks rent on earnings built by social networks all-around promoted posts.”

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

Talking of autonomous vehicles: Right after the Argo AI information hit, Darrell took to the web site to discover the point that, no, autonomous cars just aren’t heading to materialize.

MrBeast’s worthy of: Amanda asks if MrBeast, or 24-12 months-outdated YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, is worthy of the $1.5 billion he’s valuing his business at.

Meta is in trouble: That’s the headline. Meta documented its 3rd-quarter effects this 7 days and they weren’t great. As Taylor writes: “With the Instagram portion of the enterprise not hunting so hot recently, Meta has quintupled down on the metaverse without analyzing if it even is familiar with what consumers want at all these days. And just after modifying the identify of the corporation although ruining a flawlessly high-quality word in the course of action, there are no simple get-backs.” Meta really was a flawlessly wonderful phrase.

Google Pixel 7’s “dumb” flaw: Haje took a picture through an airplane window and noticed a reflection prompted by the reflective chrome surrounding the phone’s digital camera lens. “It’s a very popular use situation for most images applications, which makes it all the more challenging to grok why Google went out of its way to make that encounter even worse.”

audio roundup

• On Equity this week, we share with you just one of Natasha Mascarenhas’s Disrupt panels. She talked to Main co-founders Lindsay Kaplan and Carolyn Childers about the potential of their non-public membership club for women of all ages in management positions.
• This 7 days on Identified, Darrell and Jordan sat down with Shanthi Rajan from development management software package company Linarc to focus on breaking into a sluggish-changing marketplace, making a crew with talent throughout the world and doing work with clients to create the most handy product probable.
• And on Chain Reaction, Anita and Jacquelyn chat about Apple’s new Application Retail outlet recommendations, Reddit’s foray into the NFT area and regardless of whether the U.K.’s new primary minister will stay up to the hoopla he’s acquired from the crypto group.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Job. Haje generally passes on tearing down pre-seed rounds, but he went for it this week with the Palau Job, which was started by experienced kite-surfer Jerome Cloetens, who is having on climate improve.