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  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Big tech
    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

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    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

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    LexMeta Platforms
    Meta: taking spending back to reality Premium content

    Mark Zuckerberg needs to rethink his spending on the metaverse

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast20 min listen
    What’s behind the job cuts in Big Tech?

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

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    News in-depthYouTube Inc
    YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok in battle for younger users

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

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    Snap Inc
    Snap predicts revenue will fall up to 10% this quarter as ad woes persist

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

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    Twitter Inc
    Twitter makes first $300mn interest payment after Musk buyout

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

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    Twitter Inc
    Musk pushes forward with Twitter payments vision

    Company has started applying for US state licences in bid for fresh revenues beyond advertising

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

    Picking out bloat isn’t so easy

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    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

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    FirstFT
    FirstFT: Trump Facebook ban lifted

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

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Donald Trump
    Meta to reinstate Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram

    Former US president had been suspended from platforms after January 6 Capitol riots

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    We tried to run a social media site and it was awful

    Extinction looms for FTAV’s Mastodon presence

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Is Big Tech flabby? Premium content

    Activists seem to think so

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    News in-depthTwitter Inc
    The rise of Esther Crawford in Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ Twitter

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

  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    The Big Read
    Can Big Tech make livestreams safe?

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

  • Saturday, 21 January, 2023
    On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan
    Musk vs Arnault: the tale of two tycoons

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

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Elon Musk
    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

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Big tech
    Alphabet swings axe as Big Tech retreats from pandemic boom

    Google parent to cut 12,000 jobs as tech sector sheds more than 200,000 posts over 12 months

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Investments
    Keeping the powder dry

    Tyranny of the IRR

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Social media job cuts risk surge of online terrorist content, warns report

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

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Due Diligence
    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

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    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

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Helen Thomas
    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

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Social media bosses face jail under amendment to UK online safety bill

    Government forced to concede on punitive measure after threatened backbench rebellion

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