Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk’s Twitter deal comes as the company is weakened by macroeconomic trends and Musk’s own actions; analysts expect just 4.5% revenue growth in 2022 — Social-media platform faces advertising hurdles and fallout from billionaire’s efforts to quit the deal
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk’s Twitter starts the FIFA World Cup, traditionally one of the platform’s busiest periods, with a depleted staff, potentially leading to serious issues — Employees have been working for weeks to prepare for the soccer extravaganza, a Twitter executive says
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Alexa gains smart home features like a multi-camera view; Amazon says Alexa triggers 30%+ of users’ smart home interactions without users saying anything — Amazon today announced a number of new smart features designed to allow Alexa device owners to better control their smart home …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Amazon will roll out Customers Ask Alexa, which lets brands answer some common customer questions and provide links to their storefronts, starting in late 2022 — Amazon wants Alexa owners to buy more things. That’s the clear impetus behind the new Alexa feature announced today …
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
BMW and Amazon partner to let BMW use Alexa’s technology to build its own voice assistant, coming to cars launching within the next two years — Amazon Alexa will be the foundation of BMW’s next-generation voice assistant, the companies announced Wednesday at Amazon’s annual Devices and Services launch event.
Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Hacker behind the Mango Markets exploit keeps $47M and returns $67M to the DeFi platform after a Mango community vote; he claims his actions were legal — – Eisenberg called the exploit a “profitable trading strategy” and said his actions were legal. — The Mango exploiter said the deal …
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Report: Amazon’s hardware group may lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed — Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company’s biggest money loser. — Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company’s history right now …
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