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Spotify is pulling 11 original podcasts from the platform, which will impact studios Parcast and Gimlet and involve less than 5% layoffs, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch. Spotify will also reassign some staff to other podcasts, we understand. Reached for comment, Spotify said it does not comment publicly on staffing changes. […]

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of staff by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

After Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter after all, his legal team is now motioning for the court to cancel the upcoming trial with Twitter, slated to begin on October 17. But, as Judge Kathaleen McCormick pointed out yesterday, the trial cannot be called off until both parties agree. So, the trial is still technically […]

Elon Musk moves to kill the upcoming Twitter trial by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Healthcare unicorn Ro is notifying employees of a data exposure involving their personal information after a security contractor “inadvertently” uploaded a spreadsheet of employee data to the internet. In a data breach notice obtained by TechCrunch from an affected employee who received the notice this week, Ro said it discovered that the contractor uploaded the […]

Ro says it ‘inadvertently’ exposed employees’ personal information by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Barring investment in ESG initiatives is not just counterproductive and dangerous — it’s fiscally foolish.

GOP’s war on ESG could come back to bite it by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Atman Capital, a year-old early-stage venture firm partially backed by about 20 founders, is sweetening the deal for these individual limited partners. It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s own profits. It’s an […]

A new cross-border VC firm is offering a sweetener to its founder LPs: part of its own profits by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Just a few days after Twitter said its new “Edit” button would launch to its paying subscribers in select markets, the company today announced the feature would begin to roll out to its U.S. audience through its Twitter Blue subscription. Previously, the edit button was being made available to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and […]

Twitter’s edit button will reach all US subscribers by end of today by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch