Canoo to buy vehicle manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City • TechCrunch

Canoo to buy vehicle manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City • ProWellTech

Commercial electric vehicle company Canoo entered into an agreement to acquire a vehicle manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City, the company announced Wednesday along with its third-quarter earnings. The news comes a week after Canoo said it would build an EV battery module manufacturing facility in Pryor, Oklahoma. The new facility will be dedicated to producing…

Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce • TechCrunch

Meta decimates its staff as the social media giant lays off 11,000 • ProWellTech

To get a roundup of ProWellTech’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Whooo-weee interesting times for crypto land, as Bitcoin crashes down to under $17,000 for the first time in a while. Wild, given that the cryptocurrency was trading at $65,000 or so a…

A Harvestella player looking at a mysterious glowing object in the background.

Harvestella beginner’s guide: 11 tips and tricks

At Harvest is a quirky new life sim from Square Enix. Besides chatting up the locals and running a farm, you’ll also be tasked with delving through dungeons to unravel a mystery that’s threatening the world. Juggling all those responsibilities isn’t easy — and newcomers might find themselves overwhelmed after just a few hours with…

Google and Twitter veteran maps out a Twitter alternative • TechCrunch

Google and Twitter veteran maps out a Twitter alternative • ProWellTech

Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. But while some in the tech world describe that kind of chaos as a garbage fire, others see it as something very different: an opportunity. Years-old federated…

Elon Musk tells advertisers that Twitter cannot become "a free-for-all hellscape" • TechCrunch

Elon Musk addresses Twitter advertisers in a meandering Q&A • ProWellTech

New Twitter owner Elon Musk joined a Twitter Space today to address concerns from advertisers about changes at the company. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s nascent foray into running a social media platform has been tumultuous, from launching unfinished products, to alienating advertisers, to laying off half of its staff. Twitter’s Client Solutions Leader Robin Wheeler…

Twitter begins rolling out $7.99 Twitter Blue plan with verification, fewer ads • TechCrunch

Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system • ProWellTech

Elon Musk detailed his vision for Twitter’s plan to enter the payments market during a live-streamed meeting with Twitter advertisers, hosted on Twitter Spaces on Wednesday. The new Twitter owner suggested that, in the future, users would be able to send money to others on the platform, extract their funds to authenticated bank accounts, and…