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Twitter on Monday agreed to be acquired for around $44 billion in cash by Elon Musk, just weeks after the tech mogul launched his unsolicited, take-it-or-leave-it offer. Why it matters: This is an earthquake in global media and politics, where Twitter hosts the discourse. It's sure to be criticized by…

Nicolas Cage almost built a movie studio in Las Vegas. The 58-year-old actor was born in California but has resided in Vegas for many years and revealed he had big plans to build a studio in the city but they were ruined by Elon Musk. He told chat show host…

In a leaked text message exchange between Bill Gates (the 4th richest man in the world) and Elon Musk (the richest man in the world), we learn that Bill Gates still holds a massive short position against Tesla. This has been rumoured for a while and had been thought to…

Home » Editorial » Elon Musk wants to make Twitter great again—here’s how he can do it Last week, we reported on Tesla boss Elon Musk purchasing a 9.2% stake in Twitter. At the time, we speculated that his decision to decline a board seat might mean he had other plans for…

Tesla has stopped including its mobile connector with new car purchases and will instead sell its Gen 2 (Level 1) bundle separately for a lower $200 price, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a series of tweets. The mobile connector bundle comes with an adapter that allows drivers to charge…

Last Updated: 17th April, 2022 15:07 IST Users will be able to access the Edit Tweet feature by clicking on the three-dot menu that appears on a tweet once it is published on Twitter. Read more here. IMAGE: UNSPLASH Amidst the Twitter-Musk dissension, popular mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi…

Quick take: CZ has joked about buying Twitter in response to an Elon Musk tweet that suggested the Twitter board had adopted the Poison pill option out of concern for other bidders Binance CEO later clarified that he had no intention of buying Twitter and was okay with Elon running…

Twitter announced that they would be pulling a “poison pill” effort to defend against Elon Musk’s effort to buy Twitter. That move wasn’t in the best interests of the shareholders and could subject them to lawsuits. Musk said he had a “Plan B,” if Twitter tried to cut off his…

Home News Software (Image credit: Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Twitter has just adopted a poison pill defense against a potential hostile takeover bid from Elon Musk, who recently made a $43 billion offer to buy 100% of the company's stock. The plan, which was unanimously…

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