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New Delhi: Breaking his silence, a defiant Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has explained why a “lame-duck” CEO has made key changes at the micro-blogging platform amid the $44 billion takeover by the Tesla CEO. Stressing that “no one at Twitter is working just to keep the lights on,” he said that a lot has happened over […]
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San Francisco: Amid the high voltage drama happening ever since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition deal announcement at micro-blogging site Twitter, CEO Parag Agrawal has now said that he expects the deal to close, but “we need to be prepared for all scenarios”. The statement by the CEO comes hours after Musk, in a series […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday reiterated that Parag Agrawal-led Twitter should restore the account of former US president Donald Trump. In a tweet, the soon-to-be Twitter boss said: “Even though I think a less divisive candidate would be better in 2024, I still think Trump should be restored to Twitter.” “Don’t Diss […]
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San Francisco: Parag Agrawal has shaken up Twitter, including firing consumer product leader Kayvon Beykpour and head of revenue product Bruce Falck, as the micro-blogging platform gets ready for Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition to close later this fall. In a memo sent to employees, Agrawal said there is a hiring freeze now and Twitter will […]
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Hyderabad: Even though it has been more than seven days since the world’s biggest deal in the tech world took place, the clamor around the acquisition and eventual consequences does not seem to be going away anytime soon. After many ups and downs, the news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reached an agreement […]
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New Delhi: As Elon Musk prepares to hire a new CEO for Twitter once he takes over, current CEO Parag Agrawal is worried about the future of the micro-blogging platform, not his job. Amid multiple reports that Musk has lined up a new CEO to replace him, Agrawal has already said that he took the […]
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New Delhi: Indian-origin Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Thursday said that “despite the noise” coming from Tesla CEO Elon Musk after his successful $44 billion takeover of the company, he and the entire team will continue to do the job to change Twitter for better. In a tweet, Agrawal, who may leave or asked to […]
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San Francisco: Billionaire Elon Musk has reached an agreement to acquire Twitter for approximately $44 billion, the company said. The outspoken Tesla CEO, the world’s wealthiest person, has said he wants to buy Twitter because he thinks it’s not living up to its potential as a platform for “free speech.” He says it needs to […]
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San Francisco/New Delhi: Treating Elon Musk’s $43 billion offer to buy Twitter as an “unwelcome” step, the board of the company is reportedly considering a “poison pill” strategy to make it more difficult for Musk to acquire a larger stake in the micro-blogging platform and avoid a hostile takeover. According to The Information, Twitter’s board […]
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San Francisco: After Elon Musk made a hostile bid to acquire Twitter for nearly $43 billion, its Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal has tried to convince employees that the micro-blogging platform would follow a “rigorous process”. In a meeting with employees late on Thursday, Agrawal said the board is still evaluating Musk’s offer and will make […]
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San Francisco: Soon after microblogging platform Twitter’s subscription service Twitter Blue rolled out a new feature allowing users to show off their non-fungible token (NFT) on their profile picture, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday called the feature annoying. “This is annoying,” Musk said, sharing a screenshot of Twitter’s announcement of the news, […]
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San Francisco: New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has said that his top priority in the new role is to improve the company’s execution and streamline how the micro-blogging platform operates. Agrawal, appearing for the first time since replacing Jack Dorsey at the Barclays technology conference late on Tuesday, said that the company was “operating previously […]
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According to a report in The Washington Post citing an internal email, Twitter's Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis, who joined the company in 2019, and Head of Engineering Michael Montano, who joined in 2011, have quit.
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The elevation of Parag Agrawal, the 37-year-old IIT-Bombay alumnus, as the CEO of Twitter comes as yet another testimony to the dominant role of the Indian immigrants in the success story of America’s technology sector. A closer look at the profile of the companies in Silicon Valley, the global technology hub, reveals how Indians have […]
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Hyderabad: It was somewhere in the late 2000s that there was a sudden surge witnessed in the elevation of Indian-origin executives to head global multinationals and mostly tech giants. While Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella and Shantanu Narayen were made the CEO of Microsoft and Adobe respectively, many other India-born and Indian-origin executives rose the ranks to […]
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Hyderabad: With Parag Agrawal being named as the Twitter Chief Executive Officer (CEO), he becomes a part of the Indian-origin executives who are now helming the top global tech companies. And we have a list to be proud of – from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, the […]
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New Delhi: Soon after Parag Agrawal, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, became Chief Technology Officer (CEO) of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to the micro blogging site to praise Indian talent in the US. Musk said that the US benefits greatly from India’s talent. Musk noted while reverting […]
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New York: Indian-origin technology executive Parag Agrawal has been appointed as the new CEO of Twitter after the social media giant’s co-founder Jack Dorsey stepped down on Monday. In a message posted on Twitter, Dorsey said: “After almost 16 years of having a role at our company… from co-founder to CEO to Chair to Exec […]
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San Francisco: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform, the company announced. He will be succeeded by Twitter’s current Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal.Twitter’s stock, which has consistently underperformed the market, jumped more than 10% at the opening bell Monday before trading was halted pending news. CNBC first […]
