Ticketmaster had major issues with this week’s Taylor Swift concert presale. | Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic The Department of Justice is investigating Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation Entertainment over antitrust concerns, The New York Times reported Friday. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010 but have come under scrutiny for largely dominating the live event
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Read MoreCredit: Samsung While the Samsung Black Friday phone deals have been available to early-access customers for a week now, their release to the general public today has triggered Amazon to reply with equal or better offers on Galaxy flagships. We’re certainly not complaining. Take the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, for example. Samsung is offering a
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Elon Musk has begun reinstating Twitter accounts that were previously subject to lifetime bans, taking the first steps toward his promise of lighter moderation on the platform. Announced Friday, the first affected accounts belong to author Jordan Peterson, comedian Kathy Griffin, and conservative parody outlet
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Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: some internal estimates show that at least 1,200 full-time Twitter employees resigned on Thursday; Twitter had about 3,700 staff after mass layoffs — Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter’s underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.
Read MoreData management continues to change as companies try to find the best ways to manage and store endless amounts of data. Data has become a differentiator for many businesses as they aim to know, analyze and build trust with their consumers. For years, many companies have been utilizing data models that are fairly inefficient. Yes, the data
Read MoreNuro, the autonomous delivery startup, is laying off 20 percent of its staff, or about 300 employees, the company said in an email to employees that was later published online. (TechCrunch was first with the news.) The company’s founders said it grew too rapidly in the past year thanks to an abundance of capital and
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Read MoreFoxconn’s Zhengzhou plant has had to suspend hiring because it doesn’t have enough COVID-19 quarantine space amid local outbreaks.
Read MoreCNN: US Citizenship and Immigration Services data shows Twitter had nearly 300 people approved to work on H-1B visas in FY 2022 and Meta had more than 1,300 — Twitter employees who are relying on the company for work visas have been left in limbo, finding themselves at the whims of its new billionaire owner
Read MoreExcept she’s made a massive bag of money from the whole thing. | Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Taylor Swift has spoken out about the boondoggle that was the Ticketmaster sale for her The Eras Tour, and it doesn’t seem like she’s saying sorry just for show. In a statement posted to her Instagram story, which
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