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A BYD Seagull small electric car is on display during the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai)Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesLIVONIA, Mich. – A small electric vehicle is having a big impact on the global automotive industry.It's not the EV itself that's making waves but its price — and its potential to disrupt domestic auto industries around the world.The China-built BYD Seagull, a small all-electric hatchback, starts at just 69,800…

Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams said at this year’s Game Developers Conference that executives responsible for mass industry layoffs “can all eat shit, I think they’re horrible, and I think they’re bad people.” Speaking to PC Gamer, Adams was wondering what the future of Dwarf Fortress could look like. When considering the kind of decisions that need to be made to keep a studio afloat, he asked himself if he’d have “more empathy for the people that lay people off.” The answer was, decidedly, “No, I don’t fucking…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering all of — or at least the bulk of! — noteworthy happenings around the tech-o-sphere. This week, Roku played hardball with its customers, requiring them to consent to new dispute resolution terms. This means users can’t use their Roku devices until agreeing to the terms (or opting out via snail mail), which requires any customer with legal complaints against Roku to take them to the company’s lawyers first. In other…

For a country with some very sunny regions, Mexico has strikingly little solar power. At just over 10 gigawatts of solar capacity, it has one-eighth that of Germany, a country with less sunlight and 40% fewer people. German government incentives have helped, but there’s more to the story than that. In Mexico, the solar market is still nascent, which means customers are not very familiar with the technology and the market remains highly fragmented. For two entrepreneurs, that spelled opportunity. A couple years ago,…

Former Twitter executives sued Elon Musk on Monday alleging he purposefully withheld $128 million in severance from the people he blamed for forcing him to go through with his $44 billion purchase of the social media company in 2022. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco by ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal, ex-Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde and ex-General Counsel Sean Edgett, According to the lawsuit, Musk “has a special ire toward” the company’s former execs and has “vowed a lifetime of…

In shocking news, X owner Elon Musk was sued by four former Twitter executives on Monday for unpaid $128 million severance payments and some other allegations. Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal, former Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, former Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and former General Counsel Sean Edgett have also stated that they were fired without any hard reason. The lawsuit includes several claims against Elon Musk and the rebranding of Twitter to X. Know more about the news here. Musk sued by former…

A group of former Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are suing Elon Musk and X over millions of dollars in unpaid severance benefits. The claims date back to the chaotic circumstances surrounding Musk’s takeover of the company in October 2022.When Musk took control of the company, his was to fire Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde and general counsel Sean Edgett. According to the lawsuit, Musk had “special ire” for the group because of the role they played in the months-long…

(Reuters) – Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in combined unpaid severance, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, is the latest in a series of legal challenges the billionaire faces after he acquired the social media company for $44 billion in October 2022 and later renamed it X.The other plaintiffs are Ned Segal, Twitter’s former chief financial officer; Vijaya Gadde, its former chief…

Shares the chemicals company fell sharply in premarket trading after a trio of executives were put on administrative leave amid an internal review of accounting practices and delayed its fourth-quarter earnings report. Shares the chemicals company fell sharply in premarket trading after a trio of executives were put on administrative leave amid an internal review of accounting practices and delayed its fourth-quarter earnings report. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of…

Microsoft will address the future of Xbox in an episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, wherein fans will hope to hear about the rumours that exclusive games will come to competitor consoles. “Please join us for a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast,” announced Xbox on its official X account, where it confirmed that CEO of Microsoft Gaming Phil Spencer, president of Xbox Sarah Bond and head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty will appear in the episode. The episode will be aired at 8.00pm GMT (12.00pm PT/3.00pm ET) on…