Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley's highest-profile and politically volatile jobs. Having served as Twitter's chief technology officer for the last four years, Agrawal’s appointment was seen by Wall Street as a choice of someone who will focus on ushering Twitter into what’s widely seen as the internet’s next era — the metaverse.
Republic Realm paid $4.3 million for a plot of land in Sandbox, the largest public virtual real-estate deal to date. The company purchased the virtual plot from video game company Atari. The purchase broke the previous record set by investment firm Tokens.com last week, which reportedly bought a $2.5 million piece of land.
At Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service that aims to make it easy to deploy and manage your own private network. The launch is meant to address the challenges companies are facing with leveraging 5G. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said that with AWS Private 5G, you can set up and scale a private mobile network in days instead of months.
Three former Google employees are suing the company for allegedly firing them for calling out the company's "evil" doings. Sophie Waldman, Rebecca Rivers, and Paul Duke were fired in November 2019 for allegedly violating Google's data security policies. They claim they didn't leak any confidential information, and that they were fired for speaking out against Google's controversial cloud computing contract.
BMW M, the famous automaker's subsidiary in charge of high-performance vehicles, has introduced its second standalone model over 40 years after the M1 was first sold to the public. The new vehicle is a plug-in hybrid model called the Concept XM, and it's apparently the most powerful BMW M car to ever go into series production. It will use the company's newly developed M Hybrid drive system that combines a V8 engine with a high-performance electric motor.
Twitter Inc . said users will no longer be able to share private media, such as photos and videos, of another person without their permission, a move aimed at improving privacy and security. “Sharing personal media, such as images or videos, can potentially violate a person’s privacy, and may lead to emotional or physical harm,” Twitter said in a blog post on Tuesday.
Nasdaq Inc. said that next year it plans to begin moving its North American markets to Amazon. com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services cloud-computing platform. The move, which will take a phased approach starting with Nasdaq MRX, a U.S. options market, involves turning over massive amounts of the exchange operator’s data to a third-party cloud service. Nasdaq didn’t disclose a timeline for moving its other markets.
Jack Dorsey is stepping down as CEO of Twitter. Dorsey announced the news in an internal email to Twitter employees today. He says he's leaving because he wants Twitter to be "the most transparent company ever." Dorsey will continue to serve on the Twitter board until next spring.
Amazon workers in 20 countries are planning protests and work stoppages on Black Friday, the shopping-centric day among Amazon's busiest all year. The Make Amazon Pay group says: "Amazon takes too much and gives back too little." The group is backed by labour groups, trade unions, grassroots campaigns, and non-profit-making organisations in individual countries.
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