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☆ Twitter suspends bot account tracking Elon Musk's jet
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc suspended a bot account tracking its owner Elon Musk's private jet, the account's operator Jack Sweeney said in a tweet on Wednesday. The Twitter account tracked movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain. Later in the day, Sweeney's Twitter account was also suspended. In previous media interviews, Sweeney said he turned down a $5,000 offer from Musk in 2021 to shut down the bot account. Separately, Twitter accounts tracking the jets of billionaire tech entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have also been suspended.

☆ Twitter suspends account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet, despite billionaire's 'free speech' pledge
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The move comes after Musk has reinstated previous Twitter rule-breakers and stopped enforcing the platform’s policies prohibiting Covid-19 misinformation. Sweeney woke up Wednesday morning to a message from Twitter informing him @ElonJet had been permanently suspended. Later in the day his personal account and other jet-tracking accounts he ran were also shut down by the company. According to screenshots Sweeney shared with CNN, Musk reached out to him last December through a Twitter private message asking, “Can you take this down? “Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation.

☆ How Big Law fumbled its own Rooney rule on diversity
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Elizabeth Olson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Several law firms adopted the Mansfield rule in 2017, which aims to increase diversity in leadership. It's effectively the NFL's two-decade-old Rooney rule: a requirement that nonwhite candidates be considered when teams hire for coaching and front-office jobs. Law firms followed professional football in 2017 with its version of the Rooney rule, called the Mansfield rule. At first, the Rooney rule seemed to catch on when teams started to hire more coaches of color and a dozen general managers of color when that position was added to the Rooney rule. "For the Rooney rule to work," he said, "there has to be a true commitment from the owners.

A handful of creators are in Qatar, or heading there in the next few weeks, to help capture the best moments from the 2022 World Cup. This year’s World Cup, which has been shrouded in controversy, kicked off Sunday. In a Short posted earlier this week, de la Haye captured his dad's reaction when he told him they're going to the World Cup. "Every World Cup ... faithfully, we sit and home and support our team." He will be filming from the semifinal and final matches, but made a comedic Short with his World Cup predictions.

☆ I run the first Chick-fil-A to offer a 3-day workweek. We received 400 job applications for a single job despite the 14-hour shifts.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

What came out of it was the existing three-day workweek that we use now. I split the team into two "pods" that rotate between three-day blocks of 13- to 14-hour shiftsChick-fil-A is famously closed on Sundays. I realized I couldn't schedule those really long shifts and do a normal five-day workweek. We received 429 job applications for the program in one weekChick-fil-A Kendall staff now only have to work two Saturdays a month. Courtesy of Chick-fil-A KendallWe posted a job for a full-time team member on the three-day workweek, and in a period of a week, we had 429 applications.

☆ 20-year-old who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says Facebook took down his page because it violates their policy
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jack Sweeney said Facebook shut down his page that tracks Elon Musk's jets. "Really @Facebook," Sweeney tweeted. The billionaire told Sweeney he was concerned for his safety and didn't "love the idea of being shot by a nutcase." Sweeney previously told Insider that he countered Musk's offer, asking for $50,000 instead, but Musk declined. Earlier this year, he told Insider he stopped tracking Mark Cuban's jets on Twitter after the billionaire investor reached out and offered him business advice in exchange.

☆ Mark Cuban says this is Shark Tank's 'No. 1 success story' after start-up sells for $22 million
▼ + stars: | 2018-11-01 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

All Bruno Francois wanted to do was to make a viral app. The Atlanta-based entrepreneur did exactly that, and then he sold the resulting start-up — backed by Mark Cuban — to online used car-seller Carvana for $22 million. 1 success story" of all the start-ups to ever appear on ABC's "Shark Tank." But long before Francois hit on Car360, he was an entrepreneur looking to create the next viral app — a goal that would take him through multiple products. Then "I Googled 'How to promote an app,'" Francois now tells CNBC Make It while laughing.

Persons: Bruno Francois, Mark Cuban, Francois, Carvana, Car360, he'd Organizations: Apple, University of Central, CNBC, Ventures, Francois, YouTube Locations: Atlanta, Phoenix, University of Central Florida

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