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Elon Musk took the world by surprise with his proposal to buy Twitter. The Tesla boss has offered to acquire the social media platform for a whopping sum of $43 billion (roughly Rs. 3,28,080 crore) in an all-cash deal. Musk is one of Twitter’s largest shareholder, with a stake of 9.2 percent. People have flooded the microblogging

Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal sought to reassure employees during an all-hands meeting on Thursday that the company was not being “held hostage” by news of Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. As Agrawal took questions from staff that were posted on the company’s Slack

Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter, saying the company has extraordinary potential and he will unlock it. The world’s richest man will pay $54.20 (roughly Rs. 4,120) per share in cash, representing a 54 percent premium over the January 28. closing price and a value of about $43 billion

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $2.9 million (roughly Rs. 22 crore) last year. In a fresh update, the same NFT gathered the highest bid at a shockingly small amount of $280 (roughly Rs. 21,000) earlier this week after its holder Sina Estavi listed it for a

Twitter has acquired the Dublin-based mobile engagement platform, OpenBack, to regulate and enhance device-side control of push notifications. It will join Twitter’s Bluebird product team and work towards enhancing notifications on the social media platform. Jay Sullivan, Twitter’s head of consumer product, took to the micro-blogging platform to announce the acquisition of OpenBack on Tuesday.

Clubhouse, the popular social audio chat app, announced that it has introduced a Wild Cards Game, to offer users a new way to hang out on the app. The new game feature will give you a deck of cards full of conversation ideas to liven up the room with a question-and-answer play that gets people

WhatsApp is found to be testing a dedicated Communities tab for its Android users. A screenshot suggesting the functionality of the new tab has appeared online. Alongside Android, WhatsApp is working on bringing the dedicated Communities tab to iOS, a previous report suggested. The instant messaging app is also found to be making it easier

Meta Platforms and Snap were sued over a teenager’s suicide in the latest effort by an advocacy group to hold the social media giants responsible for addiction to their platforms.Christopher James Dawley, who went by CJ, was a college-bound honours student who played sports and enjoyed outdoor activities, but he got so deeply drawn into social

Snapchat has announced a new Dynamic Stories feature within its Discover feed to highlight news and information for users. This feed option will allow users to view the world’s latest happenings on the platform as it breaks. The social media platform will create Stories from the content created by the verified media publishers and content

On the weekend Elon Musk was expected to join Twitter’s board, the billionaire tweeted to his about 81 million followers ideas and changes he wanted to bring to the micro-blogging platform and deleted a few of those tweets hours after rejecting the seat. The week-long drama started when Musk disclosed a 9.1 percent stake in Twitter

The moment Elon Musk posts something on Twitter, some scammers running different crypto scams respond to his tweets and try to steal some attention — and also money from his followers — by impersonating him. Bad actors use deceptive tactics such as using the same profile photo of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO that he

WhatsApp is found to be testing an ability to let users view the estimated time of arrival (ETA) when sharing files through the instant messaging app. The new feature is said to be in beta testing for Android, iOS, and Web users. It is quite useful in case users are sharing large-size files on WhatsApp.

News of Tesla chief executive Elon Musk taking a board seat at Twitter has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media firm’s ability to moderate content, company insiders told Reuters. Within hours of the surprise disclosure this week that Musk, a self-described “free speech absolutist,” acquired enough shares to become the

Facebook owner Meta Platforms said on Thursday it had removed a network of social media accounts with ties to the Brazilian military that posed as fake nonprofits to play down the dangers of deforestation. Although the individuals involved in the network were active military personnel, Meta’s investigation did not find enough evidence to establish if

The official Twitter handle of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s Office was hacked late Friday night, a senior officer said. He said the hackers sent out 400-500 tweets from the account. “The account was hacked for around 29 minutes in the night. The hackers posted around 400-500 tweets, and the account was suspended on grounds

Twitter plans to hold a meeting for employees concerned about Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk’s influence on the company’s board, a Twitter spokesperson said Friday. The Twitter official did not disclose the timeframe or format for the meeting. The social media company named Musk to the board on Tuesday after the outspoken and polarizing executive

Google Meet is adding new improvements to make video meetings more productive. The video-calling platform will now allow you to exit from meetings when you are the only user left. With this update, when you’re the only participant in a meeting for five minutes, you’ll receive a prompt asking whether you want to stay or

WhatsApp is rolling out a feature that will prevent media from being automatically saved to the smartphone’s gallery or Camera Roll, when disappearing messages are enabled in a chat. The encrypted messaging service will still allow users to manually save media sent in disappearing chats. The company has also been spotted working on new image