2022 has been a rocky ride for working professionals, the once thriving Silicon Valley, seems to have hit a rough patch. Massive lay-off drives from tech giants like Twitter and now Meta have caught thousands of employees off-guard.

Twitter, Meta: Tech 'bloodbath' continues as tech giants on firing spree

Chaos continues at Twitter as its new owner Elon Musk has raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt. Voicing a grim outlook for Twitter's future, Musk has said that bankruptcy is not out of question of the company does not start generating more revenue.

Chaos at Twitter: Employees brace for difficult times ahead

The 21st century, still young, is already in the grip of three superstates: the defence industry; energy cartels; and the infotech behemoths turbo-powered by the greatest technological advance in the history of science and ingenious invention.

The age of hypercontrol

Twitter has begun rolling out its paid subscription feature. And the results were predictable. Fake blue tick accounts have caused chaos and confusion. Molly Gambhir tells you more

Gravitas: Chaos in the Twitterverse

Twitter has withdrawn the 'official' label just hours after it was rolled out, as the new boss of the social media giant, Elon Musk, said that he "killed" the feature that was visible on multiple Twitter handles of governments, politicians, officials and media houses across nations.

Stunning U-turn: Maverick Musk says 'killed' Twitter's 'official' label, just hours after rollout and hype

It is not just tech giants like Meta and Twitter that are going for massive lay-offs, some big Wall Street banks are also cutting hundreds of jobs. Barclays has got about 200 across its banking and trading desks this week.

WION Business News | Wall Street lay-offs: Citigroup, Barclays cut hundreds of jobs

Tech giants like Twitter and Meta are laying off employees at an unprecedented rate. The question arises, are tech giants really as recession-proof as they claim to be, or are the current market trends going to get the best of them? Priyanka Sharma brings you the details

WION Fineprint | Tech giants on a firing spree

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, informed his staff via email that remote work would no longer be permitted and that they should plan to spend at least 40 hours a week in the office.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk ends remote work for staff in his first email to employees

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that Twitter's new owner Elon Musk's connections with other nations were "worthy" of being scrutinised. According to Reuters, Biden was asked if he believed that the "chief twit" posed a threat to US national security and whether the American government should look into his purchase of Twitter with the aid of a Saudi Arabian corporation.

US President Biden says Twitter owner Musk's relationship with other countries 'worthy of being looked at'

Is Twitter all set to become an 'everything app'? Will it enter the payments markets? Take a glimpse into Twitter's future roadmap here.

Twitter to become an 'everything app'? Twitter entering the payments markets?

Meta, more colloquially known as Facebook is gearing up to fire employees, according to a Wall Street Journal report. After Twitter, Meta becomes another big tech company to slash the workforce in recent weeks.

Morning news brief: Meta to lay off employees, earthquake rocks Nepal, parts of India and more

Ever since the takeover, the Tesla billionaire and self-declared free speech champion Elon Musk has fired thousands of Twitter employees including some sustainability executives. Naturally, this has raised fears of a surge in climate misinformation on Twitter.

WION Climate Tracker: Twitter takeover raises fear of surge in climate misinformation

Twitter on Wednesday labeled Indian media, key Indian government handles as "official". The labeling began ahead of the rollout of blue tick payment subscriptions across the world, including in India.

Twitter begins using 'official' label for accounts associated with Indian government, media outlets

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Trending on WION | Shakira gets custody of children; Elon Musk sells Twitter shares worth $4 billion

After buying the microblogging site, Twitter, in a $44 billion deal, billionaire Elon Musk has sold additional shares of his company Tesla. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States, Musk sold 19.5 million shares of Tesla worth 4 billion dollars after taking over Twitter.

Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth nearly $4 bn after Twitter deal

According to Twitter's early-stage products executive Esther Crawford on Tuesday, the social media site will add an "Official" label for a small group of verified accounts, such as major media organisations and governments, when it debuts its new $8 premium subscription plan.

Musk to introduce 'Official' label for some verified Twitter accounts

Trending on WION: Twitter calls back some employees it fired, says they got laid off 'by mistake'

Auto firm Stellantis said, it is pausing all paid advertising posts on Twitter as it waits to see what the platform will look like under the leadership of Elon Musk.

Auto firm Stellantis joins others, pause paid ads on Twitter

Hours after appealing American voters to vote 'Republican Congress' in midterm elections due today (Tuesday), Twitter boss Elon Musk has released a clarification.

Hours after appealing to vote 'Republican' in midterm, Elon Musk releases a clarification

Why did Elon Musk cut Twitter's workforce by almost half? Reports say Musk needs to pay almost $1 billion to banks as interest - to service the debt he took on to purchase the platform.

Gravitas: Twitter in a debt trap after Musk takeover?

As a close confidante of new Twitter chief Elon Musk, Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin technocrat finds himself in an exclusive spot among Silicon valley’s universe of tech giants.

Meet Sriram Krishnan, the Chennai-born engineer helping Elon Musk run Twitter

Twitter is now reaching out to thousands of employees who lost their jobs last week, the social media giant have now asked them to return.

WION Business News | Twitter takes U-Turn post massive layoffs, asks fired employees to come back

Mass lay-offs took place at Twitter on Friday. But some people seem to have been let go without thinking it through. Now Twitter wants them to come back.

WION Fineprint | Twitter re-hiring people it just fired

Gigi Hadid is the latest in the growing list of celebrities quitting Twitter. She believes free speech does not give people the right to spew hate speech.

WION Fineprint | Supermodel Gigi Hadid quits Twitter

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