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Twitter’s paid plan Twitter Blue is now available to more than 20 new countries in Europe. These countries include Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus. This expansion makes the social network’s subscription service available in more than…
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Camilla Tenn is senior public relations strategist at cross-border communications agency Eleven International. It’s only been a couple of months since OpenAI’s ChatGPT exploded into the public consciousness, and it already feels like our news feeds will never be the same again. Whether it’s headlines about AI startups securing massive funding rounds or Twitter threads…
India’s central bank has slapped Amazon Pay’s India unit with a fine of over $373,300 for non-compliance with local guidelines surrounding know your customer and prepaid payment instruments norms. The Reserve Bank of India said in a statement (PDF) that Amazon Pay (India) was non-compliant with certain provisions of the guidelines on prepaid payment instruments…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Shoppers check food items at a supermarket in Tokyo, Japan January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan’s capital Tokyo slowed in February as the effect of government energy subsidies kicked in, though an index stripping away the effect of fuel…
Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In a blog post published today, Lonsdale — who serves as 8VC’s general partner — said that his firm’s mission is “to fix a broken world.” While he did not specify which industries the new fund…
The big, giant message Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other execs tried to impart during its four-hour Tesla Investor Day was how the company would be the driver of a global shift away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy. Investors, at least those active after the market closed, weren’t impressed perhaps because it lacked that…
Two investments Berkshire Hathaway made in the 1990s are examples of his company’s philosophy, the billionaire says…
The EV maker made no dramatic announcements on its Investor Day, but took the opportunity to show that there was a big talent pool around Elon Musk…





