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published Oct 22, 2018, 1:22:54 AM, by Adam Haigh and Andreea Papuc (Bloomberg) — Stocks and U.S. futures erased losses and European contracts advanced as Chinese equities built on a Friday rally after calls for calm from the country’s top finance officials. The dollar and Treasuries dipped. The Shanghai Composite

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published May 4th 2017, 12:26 pm, by Eben Novy-Williams (Bloomberg) —Facebook is backing away from the high-priced market for big-time sports, setting the social network apart from other digital media companies and drawing a line in the sand for the major leagues. Leagues like the NFL and Major League Baseball

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©2016 Bloomberg News O32V6A6JIJV0 (Bloomberg) — Islamic State has released a new video that targets the chief executive officers of Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. The 25-minute clip shows the faces of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey riddled with mock bullet holes, according to the Guardian newspaper and

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©2016 Bloomberg View O2DYV96KLVRL (Bloomberg View) — People are worried about everything. It would not be difficult for this newsletter to have a recurring daily section titled, like, “people are worried about the global economy.” Someone is always worried about the global economy; worries about the global economy are —

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©2016 Bloomberg News O0WVYRSYF01X (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. was accused in a lawsuit by the widow of a man killed at a police training center in Jordan of knowingly allowing the Islamic State to spread its terrorist message through its service. The lawsuit by Tamara Fields was filed Wednesday in

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©2016 Bloomberg News O0I4JM6VDKHU (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. may be preparing to raise its character limit for tweets to the thousands from the current 140, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The maximum number of characters in a post could be raised to as much as 10,000, said the person,

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©2015 Bloomberg News NS83JR6KLVR6 (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. executives had a clear message for investors on Tuesday: We have a lot of work to do, and don’t expect great progress anytime soon. After reporting quarterly sales that topped estimates, interim Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey and Chief Financial Officer Anthony

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©2015 Bloomberg News NQQA2F6KLVR9 (Bloomberg Business) — Tristan Walker, a prominent black entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, logged onto Twitter after putting his kids to bed last night and found that the BET Awards were dominating his feed. The Black Entertainment Television program had also captured several slots on Twitter’s list of trending topics.

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©2015 Bloomberg News NPSTUBSYF01T (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit to allow it to make public the “limited” scope of U.S. government surveillance of its users may be irrelevant under a new law passed by Congress, a judge said. Twitter sued in October seeking to publish more precise numbers of so-called

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©2015 Bloomberg News NOQASM6S972B (Bloomberg Business) — Chris Sacca, an early investor in Twitter, has been perhaps the biggest advocate of the company. Now, he’s ready to speak his mind. Sacca, an investor with Lowercase Capital who says he still owns “a lot” of Twitter stock, explained in a blog post on Thursday that he

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