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 closed this week and on day 1, the platform’s new proprietor “cleaned home,” Taylor and Amanda write, firing CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of authorized, coverage and belief Vijaya Gadde. The acquisition capped off months of ups and downs, and this week was no completely different. Darrell rounded up some highlights.

Elon’s layoff about-face: Whereas Elon Musk instantly fired some of us on the high, earlier this week in a reversal from his layoff declaration final week, he mentioned he received’t really lay off 75% of Twitter’s workers — or 5,600 individuals — writes Rebecca, citing a Bloomberg report.

Apple’s Elon drawback: Darrell’s headline says all of it, actually: “Twitter’s Elon drawback might quickly turn out to be Apple’s Elon drawback, too.” At challenge is that Apple up to date its developer pointers this week, one in all which “seeks hire on income made by social networks round promoted posts.”

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

Talking of autonomous autos: After the Argo AI information hit, Darrell took to the positioning to discover the truth that, no, autonomous autos simply aren’t going to occur.

MrBeast’s value: Amanda asks if MrBeast, or 24-year-old YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, is well worth the $1.5 billion he’s valuing his enterprise at.

Meta is in hassle: That’s the headline. Meta reported its third-quarter outcomes this week and so they weren’t nice. As Taylor writes: “With the Instagram portion of the enterprise not trying so sizzling currently, Meta has quintupled down on the metaverse with out analyzing if it even is aware of what customers need in any respect as of late. And after altering the identify of the corporate whereas ruining a superbly high-quality phrase within the course of, there aren’t any simple take-backs.” Meta actually was a superbly high-quality phrase.

Google Pixel 7’s “dumb” flaw: Haje took an image by way of an airplane window and observed a mirrored image attributable to the reflective chrome surrounding the telephone’s digicam lens. “It’s a fairly frequent use case for many images purposes, which makes it all of the more durable to grok why Google went out of its technique to make that have worse.”

audio roundup

• On Fairness this week, we share with you one in all Natasha Mascarenhas’s Disrupt panels. She talked to Chief co-founders Lindsay Kaplan and Carolyn Childers about the way forward for their personal membership membership for ladies in management positions.
• This week on Discovered, Darrell and Jordan sat down with Shanthi Rajan from building administration software program firm Linarc to debate breaking right into a slow-changing business, constructing a crew with expertise throughout the globe and dealing with prospects to construct essentially the most helpful product doable.
• And on Chain Response, Anita and Jacquelyn chat about Apple’s new App Retailer pointers, Reddit’s foray into the NFT house and whether or not the U.Okay.’s new prime minister will reside as much as the hype he’s obtained from the crypto group.

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5 ideas for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market. Contributor Corey Wilton explains the steps that may set you aside when in search of capital.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Venture. Haje often passes on tearing down pre-seed rounds, however he went for it this week with the Palau Venture, which was based by skilled kite-surfer Jerome Cloetens, who’s taking up local weather change.