Elon Musk

You learn a lot when you scroll through the many tweets of Elon Musk.  You learn, for example, that he thinks Apple's app store fees amount to a global tax on the internet. And you learn that he claims never to have spoken with Apple CEO Tim Cook, despite reports to…

Publish date:Jul 31, 2021 5:56 PM EDTThe U.S. Government Accountability Office denied a protest by Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space company seeking to develop a moon lander for NASA. Amazon  (AMZN) - Get Report founder Jeff Bezos suffered a setback to his goal of traveling to the moon as the U.S.…

Who could have predicted that the unsubstantiated report of the week would be Elon Musk once vying for control of Apple? In the strange times that we now live in, that’s the rumor that topped off tech and EV news this week. And while both Elon Musk and people speaking…

A wild tech story took over the airwaves Friday, with a new book claiming that Tesla head Elon Musk at one point demanded Tim Cook install him as CEO of Apple. According to a review published by the LA Times of the recently published Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using…

Tim Cook snapped and said 'F**k you' to Elon Musk after the Tesla boss said he wanted to be CEO of Apple in return for selling his car firm to the tech giant, a new book claims.   'I'm CEO' Musk reportedly told Cook during the alleged phone call, said to have…

Cook, according to a new book, told the Tesla chief ”f— you“ in response Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk not only asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to buy his company in 2016, he also demanded he become the new chief executive of Apple if the deal were to go…

Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, introduces a new lunar landing module called Blue Moon during an event at the Washington Convention Center, May 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with Jeff Bezos that…

There's a weird amount of Elon Musk news related to Apple today Happy Friday internet! We’re especially blessed today to get not one, but two pieces of juicy “Elon Musk Content™.” “F**K you” As detailed in POWER PLAY, this is a story that was told inside Tesla as the company…

In the process of denying he asked Tim Cook to be CEO of Apple during an alleged conversation about a Tesla acquisition, Elon Musk has turned his attention to Apple’s App Store, saying Epic Games is right and that Apple holds a “de facto global tax on the Internet.” Shortly…