Elon Musk’s proposal to ask businesses and government bodies to start paying for using Twitter could be in direct conflict with his utopian idea to allow free speech on the platform, according to experts. Paying customers, including companies and governments,…
Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter for $44 billion could provide the micro-blogging company the much-needed impetus to rework the company’s revenue and business model. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, told BusinessLine that right now the two…
Read More Going Private The Right Way For Twitter To Focus On User Growth And Revenue : Experts
Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk’s $44-billion takeover offer for microblogging platform Twitter may lead to more run-ins with the Indian government and others, due to his self-proclaimed ‘absolutist’ stance in support of free speech, experts said. A shakeup is “desperately…
Read More Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk May Chafe At Laws Of Land, Say Experts
Tesla tycoon Elon Musk’s hostile takeover bid of Twitter is being seen by analysts as a battle for control of all-powerful algorithms that influence our newsfeeds. They feel it could be the change that Twitter needed though, at the same…
Read More Tesla Tycoon’s Bid For Twitter Seen As Battle For Control
Before joining Twitter a decade ago in 2011 as a software engineer, Agrawal had stints at Microsoft Research, AT&T Labs and Yahoo! Research. At Twitter, he rose to become the first Distinguished Engineer through his performance across revenue and consumer engineering…
Read More Can Parag Agarwal As The New CEO Of Twitter Change The Narrative?
Just about a year back, when afaqs! did a cover story on TikTok, it seemed like the short video platform was nearing the end of its problems in India. It seemed like the major concern for the ByteDance-owned video juggernaut…
The ‘technical partnership’ deal struck between US-based business software provider Oracle and ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is unlikely to bring cheers to users of the mobile app in India as the Centre is reportedly in no mood…
Read More TikTok Deal With Oracle May Not Lead Easing Of Ban In India
In the US, TikTok might be on the last legs of negotiation to find itself an American buyer but the big race is on In India. While several names like Microsoft, Twitter, Reliance Jio and now Oracle have come to…
Read More The Big Race For TikTok In India: What’s In It For The Buyer?
Earlier today, we published a research report on the possibilities and the likely outcomes if Oracle was to land TikTok. Since then, I've received many calls from friends in the media about the implication for TikTok's India business and whether or not…
Read More Oracle Running TikTok In India Doesn’t Make Sense: Here’s Why
Sunday night just got exciting, and how! Reports have confirmed that Oracle has won the bid for the U.S. operations of TikTok (a ByteDance company), leaving behind both Microsoft and Walmart from the race. It's being touted that this deal will not…
Read More Oracle Landing TikTok Means A Lot Of Things, But Definitely Not An Ad Network
Even as Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey makes the right noises on his maiden visit to India, experts feel the social media platform has missed several opportunities to make itself relevant in the country. “At a time when the current government…
Read More As Jack Dorsey Visits India, Experts Feel Twitter Still Has A Long Way To Go Here
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Ravi Bhaskaran, Twitter’s Platform Partnerships Head, South Asia, quit his position on Wednesday. According to Greyhound Research, the digital advertising market in India is currently worth around Rs 7,000 crore – 75% of which lies with Google and Facebook. Twitter,…
Read More Twitter Exodus Continues As Platform Partnerships Of South Asia Quits
