Month: November 2022

Football Sports

3 Key Takeaways Of Lazio’s 1-0 Win Over AS Roma

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The absence of its key striker Ciro Immobile had little effect on Lazio who registered a 1-0 win in a derby over AS Roma on Sunday. With this win, Lazio came third in the Serie A table with 27 points, and AS Roma stands in the fifth position with 25 points after thirteen matches.

Key Takeaways Of The Game

How Maurizio Sarri Coped With Immobile’s Absence?

An injured Ciro Immobile chose to sit between audiences and watch his team playing. But Sarri was looking for a striker for his team. And the former Chelsea coach decided to bet on Mattia Zaccagni, Felipe Anderson, and Pedro as strikers. And his decision proved fruitful when Anderson scored the deciding goal in the first half. The Brazilian defender Roger Ibañez made an incredible mistake but Anderson didn’t miss the opportunity.

What Was The Biggest Challenge For AS Roma?

Lazio’s 1-0 Win Over AS Roma

Considering the ball possession rate and the costly mistake by their defender, it becomes clear that defense was their biggest challenge. They couldn’t take control of the ball as it remained with Lazio for 59% of the game. Also, the individual mistake by Roger Ibañez drowned the morale of the entire team and they couldn’t manage to get the courage to strike a goal. AS Roma has a three-lined defense but it seemed weak in the Sunday fixture.

How Many Players Are Injured?

It was only five minutes into the second half when AS Roma’s captain Lorenzo Pellegrini reported a muscular injury and had … Read the rest

Technology

How Will Layoff Impact Twitter Business In India?

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Elon Musk downsized the Twitter India team on Friday according to his plans for reducing the infrastructural cost of the social media platform. While a majority of officials were removed, a handful of employees in the sales operations are retained.

HIGHLIGHTS

• 50-60% of the Twitter India staff have been let go
• There is no information about the severance pay
• India is the third-largest market for Twitter after US and Japan

What Is The Impact Of Twitter India Layoffs?

Impact Of Twitter India Layoffs

With a majority of the 250-member team being laid off, Twitter India’s strength has considerably impacted all verticals in the country. India constitutes the third-largest market for Twitter with 23.6 million users and it is increasing.

According to internal information, Twitter India has laid off at least 50-60% of its employees. And its impact can be seen in marketing, communication, partnerships, and all other verticals.

The majority of employees retained by Twitter India belong to sales operations. There is no communication regarding severance pay, if any, to be given to the employees laid off on Friday.

Twitter India closed its offices and denied the employees access to the internal systems. There were asked to wait for information about whether they are laid off. There was chaos in the office as everyone wanted to know about the laid-off.

Why Is Elon Musk Downsizing Twitter India Team?

Soon after the takeover, Musk made it clear that he wanted to cut around 3700 Twitter staff to slash costs and impose a demanding work ethic. A source in Twitter India said that they were aware of the laid off but the exact number of employees to be relieved … Read the rest

Business Technology

What Is Elon Musk’s “Deep Cut Plan” For Twitter?

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Elon Musk has asked Twitter Inc’s teams to explore options for annual infrastructure cost savings of up to $1 billion and has given Nov 7 deadline to present a plan. But the teams fear that this move could make Twitter unable to handle high-traffic events like the U.S. midterm elections.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Elon Musk could save up to $3 million a day from servers and cloud services
• But the steep infrastructure cut will compromise the services during critical events
• Musk has asked Twitter teams to work hard to meet Nov 7 deadline to present a cost-cutting plan

What Is The Present Infrastructural Cost Of Twitter?

According to an internal document, Twitter’s daily expense is about $3 million a day “with all spending and revenue considered”. But the company wants to go for a “Deep Cut Plan” to save as much as it can. It is estimated that the social media company can save between $1.5 million and $3 million by cutting down on its servers and cloud services.

What Is Twitter’s Deep Cut Plan?

Twitter’s Deep Cut Plan

The social media platform has extra server space to ensure that it can easily accommodate high traffic which is when people rush to Twitter to share and consume information. It happens in crisis times or major political events. Insiders say that Musk is willing to introduce that risk to meet those goals. Elon Musk can even reduce spending on Google Cloud services to fulfill the goals. But Google didn’t comment on this matter.

Twitter teams are working round the clock to meet the Nov 7 deadline set to present a “Deep Cut Plan”. Musk has even ordered some of the officials to work every … Read the rest

Technology

Twitter Sees An Exodus Of Officials For This Reason

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The exodus of top management employees from Twitter continues after Elon Musk took the reins of the company. The latest to resign from Twitter is the chief customer officer and ad boss, Sarah Personette. She tweeted on Tuesday that she resigned last week.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Sarah Personette and other officials resigned from Twitter
• The resignation of top advertising and marketing chiefs has added to the advertisers’ uncertainty
• Advertisers are stopping their ads on Twitter

Which Officials Left Twitter?

Chief Customer Officer and Ad Boss Sarah Personette, Chief People and Diversity Officer Dalana Brand, General Manager for Core Technologies Nick Caldwell, Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Berland, Head of Product Jay Sullivan, and Vice President of Global Sales Jean-Philippe Maheu have left the social media company.

Twitter Exodus Of Officials For This Reason

How Are Advertisers Responding To Twitter?

A group of over 40 advocacy organizations including the NAACP and Free Press asked the top 20 advertisers to pull their ads in an open letter fearing Elon Musk could get content moderation on Twitter. Mediabrands, a unit of ad holding company IPG, has also advised its clients to pause advertising on Twitter until Twitter takes trust-building measures and ensures safety on the platform.

It is to be noted that hateful content has skyrocketed since the change of guards at the top level. The Network Contagion Research Institute, which identifies “cyber-social threats, has already said that the use of the n-word had increased to an alarming 500% on the social media platform.

How Is Elon Musk Handling The Situation?

Elon Musk sent a tweet on Monday to reassure advertisers about brand safety. “Twitter’s commitment to brand safety is unchanged,” tweeted Musk. Also, his … Read the rest

Business

Padma Bhushan Jamshed J Irani Breathed His Last At 86

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Jamshed J Irani, The Steel Man of India and winner of the Padma Bhushan award, breathed his last on October 31, 2022, at 10 PM at TMH (Tata Hospital) in Jamshedpur. Dr. Irani (86) served Tata Steel in various positions till his retirement in 2011. He is survived by his wife Daisy Irani and his three children, Zubin, Niloufer, and Tanaaz.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Tata Steel mourns the death of Jamshed J Irani
• Dr. Irani started his career with Tata Iron and Steel Company in 1968
• He was the winner of many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Government of India

Who Was Jamshed J Irani?

Jamshed J Irani

Born on June 2, 1936, in Nagpur, Jamshed J Irani was a born scholar. He completed his education in MSc in Geology from Nagpur University in 1958 and went to the University of Sheffield in the UK as a J N Tata scholar where he studied Metallurgy and became a Ph.D. in Metallurgy in 1963.

He first joined the British Iron and Steel Research Association in Sheffield in 1963 but soon returned to India to contribute to nation-building. Here he joined The Tata Iron and Steel Company (now Tata Steel) in 1968 as Assistant to the Director in charge of Research and Development.

At Tata Steel, he held various positions including General Superintendent in 1978, General Manager in 1979, President of Tata Steel in 1985, Joint Managing Director of Tata Steel in 1988, and Managing Director in 1992. He retired as Managing Director in 2001.

He joined the Board of Tata Steel in 1981 and was made a Non-Executive Director from 2001 for a decade. He … Read the rest