The investment giant helped finance Musk's $44 billion takeover. | Continue reading


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Exclusive: Bloomberg eyes WSJ-parent Dow Jones, WaPo

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, a source familiar with his thinking told Axios. Why it matters: Bloomberg wants to expand his media empire and se … | Continue reading


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"Could you just leave a good man alone in your seemingly endless quest for attention?" Sen. Klobuchar tweeted. | Continue reading


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Exclusive: SBF secretly funded crypto news site The Block and its CEO's Bahamas apartment

The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled to The Block's CEO from the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency trading firm, sources told Axios.(axios.com) | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Ex-employees sue Twitter for alleged gender discrimination in layoffs after Musk takeover

Two former Twitter employees on Wednesday filed a class action lawsuit against the social media company alleging that its recent mass layoffs disproportionally affected female employees. Driving the news: This is the latest lawsuit stemming from the mass layoffs that followed Elo … | Continue reading


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The move comes just days after Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor resigned. | Continue reading


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The two parties have been at odds over a new contract for more than a year and a half. | Continue reading


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Scoop: The Recount to suspend operations after firing most of its staff

The Recount, a video news startup that launched in 2018, told employees it plans to suspend operations next Friday, sources told Axios. Why it matters: The company, which raised over $34 million since 2020, struggled to find a profitable business model. Like most media companies, … | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

"You will have blood on your hands @elonmusk," said award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Poll: Americans don't want to talk politics at Thanksgiving. | Continue reading


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“Never did I think I’d go from homemaker to House Speaker.” | Continue reading


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Trump wanted to announce his 2024 campaign before the midterms. | Continue reading


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"The real question is whether the Republicans will listen to those voices." | Continue reading


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Trump's the loser as GOP falters in key midterm election races. | Continue reading


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Musk's net worth has dropped by $70 billion since he bid for Twitter in April. | Continue reading


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Kathy Griffin was among those suspended after she changed her Twitter profile name to "Elon Musk" before the announcement. | Continue reading


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The Wisconsin lawmaker has been criticized by election officials for spreading false information about the system. | Continue reading


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I’m holding out for women to lead us to victory next week. | Continue reading


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Leading by tweet seizes public attention but also causes organizational chaos and makes it tough to impose change. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Sono Motors found a way to build solar cells into a car's body panels. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Twitter's new owner wants to try to revive the short-video service the company shut down in 2016. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

YouTube mega-star MrBeast seeks $1.5B valuation

Mr. Beast has been speaking with venture investors. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

The anatomy of social media's mad-making machine

Facebook et al. didn't create the political divide, a new study says, but they made it more extreme and violent. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

How emoji can divide the workplace

The thumbs-up gets a thumbs-down. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Diwali to become public school holiday in NYC from 2023

"To New Yorkers from India, Guyana, Trinidad, the Indo-Caribbean, Nepal, Bangladesh and ... the South Asian diaspora — we see you." | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Sims pioneer Will Wright is making a blockchain game, but is down on NFTs

Wright is ambivalent about the crypto "whales" his game will need | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Instacart Postpones Its IPO

The IPO market's great hope gives up. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

The federal income tax brackets for 2023

Here's a breakdown of income and rates for next year. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women

A new study suggests that workplace flexibility might be one solution to the long-term issue of falling birth rates. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Two leading Roblox studios merge

The all-equity deal combines RedManta Games and Sonar Studios into a new entity, Twin Atlas. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Rich conservatives fund new media universe

The right is building alternatives to big tech platforms. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft announced layoffs across multiple divisions

Most big tech firms have already slowed or frozen hiring. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Meta ending support for Instant Articles

It's part of a broader effort by Meta to move away from investments in news content on its apps. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Pope Francis calls for reforms to the United Nations in new book

There is never a place for the barbarism of war, especially not when contention acquires one of its most unjust faces: that of so-called ‘preventive wars," Pope Francis also wrote in an excerpt released Sunday. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Road that can charge EVs as they drive coming to Detroit

A 1-mile stretch in Corktown will help understand how best to use EV-charging roads. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Cathie Wood's ARK Innovation runs aground

Both the S&P 500 and ARK Innovation are up 77% since the fund went live in late October 2014. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

FCC poised to ban all U.S. sales of new Huawei and ZTE equipment

The planned move marks a deepening trade rift amid heightened national security fears over Chinese tech. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Playstation's Haven Studios is trying to reinvent game development

The goal is a Google Docs, but for game levels. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

TikTok chases Amazon with plans for U.S. fulfillment centers

New job listings suggest the video-sharing service wants to own the logistics for its e-commerce operation. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Russian-speaking hackers disrupt multiple U.S. airport websites

No actual flight disruptions from the attacks were reported. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

PayPal won’t fine users ($2.5K) for misinformation posts, policy “in error”

"An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information." | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

David Brock's Bogus Local News Sites

The American Independent was founded by Democratic operative David Brock. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

The Trouble with Startup Accelerators

What On Deck's troubles say about how VC money gets raised, and used. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Fireball engulfs key Crimean bridge for supplying Russian troops

The bridge has been a longtime symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim to the Crimean Peninsula. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

AI becomes a political “super-weapon”

Whose most likely to vote or give the most? The algorithm knows. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Musk's “Super App” Vision

Twitter's likely new owner wants to turn it into an all-purpose app modeled on China's WeChat. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 1 year ago

Kemp heads into the final stretch against Stacey Abrams with more fundraising power than he's ever had. | Continue reading


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