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...Co-founded by Jack Dorsey, it has a market valuation of $27bn, operates an FDIC-insured bank and offers stock and cryptocurrency trading....
...In a statement on Thursday, Hindenburg said it had been investigating Block, which is led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, for two years and had taken a short position in the shares....
...Take Jack Dorsey’s Block (formerly called Square). This started out providing small businesses with simple tech to take card payments. PayPal specialised in online purchases....
...Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey failed to solve its moderation and profitability problems when he came back....
...Block, the tech company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, former chief executive of Twitter, is putting £2mn of funding into a Birmingham-based not-for-profit lender which provides business loans across the West...
...its sluggish growth relative to peers such as Meta, with activist investors such as Elliott Management previously raising concerns about its leadership under former chief executive and co-founder Jack Dorsey...
...Mentioned in this podcast: TikTok chief faces hostile Congress in bid to fight off US ban Hindenburg Research shorts Jack Dorsey’s payments group Block Asia investors ‘gobsmacked’ by $17bn Credit Suisse...
...At the same time, Jack Dorsey’s Block finds itself in the crosshairs of another method of accountability....
...The longstanding supply-demand gap for engineering talent (which remains even after loosening of supply from cost rationalization at unprofitable and large-cap tech) ensures that enterprises will require...
...Musk heads up the engineering and product teams. Those developers don’t see or answer to Yaccarino in any way, insiders say....
...Adding payments is a first step — a reason that speculation has fallen on executives including Sarah Friar, head of social app Nextdoor and a former chief financial officer at Jack Dorsey’s payments company...
...In text messages made public as part of the pre-trial discovery, Musk initially appeared to bond with Agrawal over a love of deeply technical engineering work....
...Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also agreed to commit his own stake, worth roughly $1bn, to back Musk’s purchase, further reducing the financing pressure....
...When the Jack Dorsey-led payments company Square announced it was buying Afterpay, a leading provider of BNPL loans, for A$39bn last August it was pitched as the largest ever takeover in Australian history...
...Montano had run Twitter’s engineering operations for more than a decade. Davis joined the company in June 2019....
...A pure engineering mindset at the top could overcome the indecisiveness that crept into Twitter under Dorsey’s leadership, said Alex Roetter, a former head of engineering at the company....
...Beyond the Square Mile Square Inc, the payments company run by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is the latest tech group to jump on the renaming bandwagon....
...TBD would be the latest in a number of bets on cryptocurrencies made by Dorsey, a fierce bitcoin advocate....
...Twitter’s former chief Jack Dorsey, who resigned in November, replied: “The choice of which algorithm to use (or not) should be open to everyone.”...
...Square Inc, the payments company run by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, said on Wednesday that it would change its name to Block, becoming the latest tech group to rebrand itself with a name swap....
...As the company’s first “distinguished engineer” — a title that confers major status in elite engineering circles — his intellect has earned him respect internally....
...stories from ft.com UK to expand Covid booster jab campaign to all adults Omicron threatens US economic recovery, warns Powell Ghislaine Maxwell described as ‘predator’ at sex-trafficking trial Jack Dorsey...
...“Square and Afterpay have a shared purpose,” said Dorsey....
...“People are rewarding Jack Dorsey for being bold and for making a big bet.” Square’s entry into BNPL comes as the sector is becoming increasingly competitive....
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