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Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal announced in an email to employees on Thursday, which was seen by Reuters, that the company’s leaders for the consumer division and revenue will depart the social media company. The news comes as billionaire entrepreneur  Elon Musk  is working to close a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter. Agrawal also said in the email that Twitter would pause most hiring and would review all existing job offers to determine whether any “should be pulled back.” Kayvon Beykpour, who leads Twitter’s consumer division, said in a tweet thread on Thursday that his departure was not his decision. “Parag asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction,” Beykpour tweeted Bruce Falck, who leads revenue product at Twitter, will leave after five years at the company. In a tweet on Thursday, Falck thanked his team and partners at Twitter. “We were able to achieve the results we did through your hard work – – quarterly ...

Elon Musk said that his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter  has been put on hold.  The billionaire Tesla chief cited pending details to support the microblogging site’s claim that spam or fake accounts were less than 5 per cent of its total user base. What has Musk said? In a tweet Friday, Musk said: “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users”. He shared a link in his tweet to a May 2 Reuters story titled ‘Twitter estimates spam, fake accounts comprise less than 5% of users -filing’. Why has Musk put the Twitter deal on hold? The world’s richest man on prior occasions has said that removing “spam bots” from Twitter will be one of his top priorities following the completion of the acquisition. What is Twitter’s claim on spam users?   Earlier this month, the microblogging platform had claimed in a regulatory filing that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5 per cent of...

Russia Ukraine War Live: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday that the bloc would provide   another 500 millions euros worth of military support   to Ukraine and that he was confident a deal could be reached in the coming days to agree an embargo on Russian oil. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials say their forces took out another Russian ship in the Black Sea. Ukraine said that Russia’s Vsevolod Bobrov logistics ship was struck as it was trying to deliver an anti-aircraft system to Snake Island. He said the ship was badly damaged but was not believed to have sunk. There was no confirmation from Russia and no reports of casualties. Meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution to set up an investigation into possible war crimes by Russian troops in the Kyiv area and beyond, a move that the Kremlin said amounted to political score-settling. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said there were many examples of possib...

Mumbai News Updates:  The National Investigation Agency has arrested two Mumbai based alleged associates of Dawood Ibrahim and Shakeel Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel. The arrested accused have been identified as Arif Abubakar Shaikh (59) and Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh (51).  As per NIA both were involved in handling Dawood Ibrahim’s illegal activities and terrorist financing in the western suburbs of Mumbai. They were produced before the special NIA court today and have been sent to NIA’s custody till May 20. Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 231 fresh coronavirus cases and one more death linked to the infection, according to news agency  PTI . With this, the state’s overall Covid-19 tally rose to 78,80,074, while the death toll increased to 1,47,851. Mumbai, meanwhile, recorded 139 cases in the last 24 hours, accounting for more than 50 per cent of the new patients in the state. A day after the Maharashtra unit of the  BJP  tweeted an edited video ...