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Twitter

Periscope is a live video streaming app for Android and iOS developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and acquired by Twitter before launch in 2015.

Periscope

Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. Users' videos were published through Vine's social network and could be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app could also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending, or popular, videos. Vine competed with other social media services such as Instagram and Mobli.

Vine

X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications.  As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages.  X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington.  X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.

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Twitter is introducing a new voice tweet feature, allowing users to share 140 seconds of audio with each other.

Twitter introduces voice tweets for audio messaging

Alphabet

The U.S. Justice Department proposed on Wednesday that Congress take up legislation to curb protections big tech platforms like Alphabet's Google and Facebook have had for decades, a senior official said, following through on President Donald Trump's bid to crack down on tech giants.

Trump administration proposes rolling back protections for big tech

Twitter is rolling out a new type of tweet — audio tweets — to its platform, allowing users to share thoughts in audio form inside their feeds. The feature will only be available to some iOS users for now, though the company says all iOS users should have access “in the coming weeks.

Twitter begins rolling out audio tweets on iOS

Users will be able to record voice messages much longer than the standard 280 characters.

Twitter Tests Voice Tweets With Up to 140 Seconds of Audio

The U.S. Justice Department proposed on Wednesday that Congress take up legislation to curb protections that big tech platforms like Alphabet's  Google and Facebook  have had for decades, a senior official said, following through on U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to crack down on tech giants.

U.S. Justice Department proposes rolling back protections for big tech

The proposal follows an executive order on social media signed by President Donald Trump last month.

DOJ takes aim at law that shields tech companies from lawsuits over material their users post

A Trump official has said that the DOJ will propose limiting Section 230 legal protections for online platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Justice Department To Propose Curbing Legal Protections For Online Platforms, Report Says

The agency will say that Congress should repeal parts of a law that has been crucial for the growth of companies like Facebook and Twitter.

D.O.J. to Urge Rolling Back Legal Shield for Tech Companies

The Justice Department is set to propose a rollback of legal protections that online platforms have enjoyed for more than two decades, in an effort to make tech companies more responsible in how they police their content, according to a Trump administration official.

The Wall Street Journal: Justice Department to suggest limits on internet companies’ protections

It comes in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order targeting social media sites.

Justice Department will reportedly propose limits to online platforms' legal protections

United Continental Hlds

Barstool’s Dave Portnoy vs. Warren Buffett: Trading vs Investing

Twitter has tapped former FBI general counsel James Baker, a central player in the “Russian collusion” investigation, to serve as counsel to the tech giant. “Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy General Counsel,” Twitter’s chief legal officer Sean Edgett posted Monday.

Twitter hires former FBI lawyer James Baker to join legal team

Lyft

Spotify

June 19 commemorates the day many African American slaves in the US finally learned they were free.

Twitter, Spotify, Lyft and others make Juneteenth an official company holiday

Amazon

Blackrock Inc

Can Tech Giants Really Be Socially Responsible?

Despite Donald Trump's Tantrums, Twitter Is Fairly Valued

eBay

SAP SE

SoftBank Group Corp

AT&T

Activist hedge fund Elliott Management used to make its living forcing little-known enterprise software companies to sell themselves. Now, with more than $40 billion under management, Elliott is agitating for change at some of the world's largest companies.

Hedge fund Elliott Management shifts to elephant hunting as fund size balloons

Apple

Microsoft

Netflix

A weak DOJ and accretion of market cap for the biggest tech players make 2020 a year for high-profile acquisitions (weddings) and one spectacular failure (a funeral).

Four Weddings And A Funeral

Twitter has seen record usage and downloads during the Q2 events.

Twitter: Land Of Opportunity

Twitter said the network used "a range of manipulative and coordinated activities" to spread messages supportive of the Chinese Communist Party.

Twitter removes 170,000 users over Chinese propaganda links

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) announced Thursday it had shut down over 170,000 accounts for pushing deceptive narratives about political dynamics in Hong Kong favorable to the Communist Party of China (CCP).

Twitter Shuts Down More Than 170,000 Accounts Linked To Chinese Government

Twitter Inc. said it removed about 174,000 accounts from its platform after the social media company concluded they were fake accounts operated by the Chinese government to push its narratives around topics such as the coronavirus and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

The Wall Street Journal: Twitter purges 174,000 fake accounts linked to Chinese government

Twitter Inc. on Thursday says it removed 174,000 accounts it concluded were fake and operated by the Chinese government to spread propaganda on topics ranging from its handling of the coronavirus pandemic to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Twitter removes 174,000 Chinese government-linked accounts it says were propagandist

The company said the latest misinformation effort came with a new wrinkle: extolling the Chinese government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Twitter Removes Chinese Misinformation Campaign

Test to promote informed discussion will ask users if they want to retweet unread links

Twitter aims to limit people sharing articles they have not read

Twitter Inc. (NASDAQ: TWTR) is rolling out a new feature to limit misinformation on its social media platform, it announced Wednesday.

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