TNB Tech Minute: Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertising Group Over Boycott

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

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Plus: Microsoft says Delta Air Lines’ outdated technology likely contributed to its slow recovery from last month’s global IT outage. And Uber shares jump after its return to profitability. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Tuesday, August 6th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:38.0	Elon Musk's social media company, X, is suing an advertising industry group in federal court for allegedly
0:45.2	illegally boycotting the platform.
0:48.2	X is accusing members of the World Federation of Advertisers, including CVS, Mars, and Unilever, of conspiring to withhold
0:55.0	to withhold billions of advertising dollars to force the company to maintain
0:59.0	certain safety standards.
1:01.0	Advertisers have fled the platform since Musk bought it, partially in response to his inflammatory posts.
1:07.0	The World Federation of Advertisers and other defendants didn't respond to requests for comment.
1:13.2	Microsoft says Delta Airlines outdated technology was likely responsible for its struggles
1:18.8	to recover from the Crowdstrike IT outage last month. In a letter, a lawyer for the tech giant said a preliminary review suggests Delta had not modernized its IT infrastructure, contributing to its slow recovery, and that the airline likely refused Microsoft's offers to help during the
1:35.6	outage. Delta said it has invested billions of dollars in upgrading its IT systems since 2016. And Uber says it is back to being profitable
1:46.0	thanks to solid growth in its ride share and food delivery businesses last quarter.
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