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Elon Musk, a longtime advocate for bitcoin, will soon give Tesla Inc.’s TSLA -1.62% customers the chance to buy the company’s electric vehicles using the digital currency. The news—along with Tesla’s move to acquire $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency for its corporate treasury—sent the price of bitcoin up 25% from Sunday to a new intraday record of…

Home News Tech SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk celebrates the successful launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on May 30, 2020. (Image: © Saul Martinez/Getty Images) Elon Musk wants your ideas about how to fight climate change — and he's willing…

Recent appearances from Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk on Clubhouse are bringing attention to the venture-backed audio social network, which has also seen a boost in downloads over the past few weeks. Yes, but: The app is already beginning to face the same growing pains that other upstart social networks…

Attention is a commodity, which means that memes — a way of focusing and scaling attention — are a way to create value. No one understands this better than Elon Musk. Why it matters: People expert in propagating memes are finding that their skills can make them millions — or,…

Investor Paul Judge has partnered with BIP Capital to found a $300 million fund.  The fund's mission is to support diverse founders in the Southeast and Midwest. "The region is ready for a fund of this scale to invest in companies across stages from Seed to Series B," Judge told…

Posted by Jason Cartwright on February 9, 2021 Elon Musk’s SpaceX order page for Starlink went live today and we now have a date for availability in Australia. After entering an Australian address, the Starlink website shows a target date for coverage in mid to late 2021. Availability will be…

A visual representation of dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Dogecoin is surging after billionaire Elon Musk and other celebrities appeared to back the cryptocurrency on Twitter. The meme-inspired token rallied 37% in 24 hours to a record high of $0.084945 at 10:20 a.m. ET on Monday,…

Elon and SpaceX Taking Twitter Suggestions to Fix Starship Landing Problem Brian Wang | February 5, 2021 | Elon Musk is taking some Twitter suggestions to light all three engines on the Starship landing. Two Starship prototypes (SN8 and SN9) have crashed on landing. By default, engine with least lever…

THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST F ollowing strong earnings reports and bullish new takes from Wall Street analysts, tech stocks soared this week, padding the fortunes of world’s richest. The top ten gainers added a combined $74 billion to their net worths. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was the…

Senvest Management made $700 million on its Gamestop investment, The Wall Street Journal reported. The hedge fund sold its 5% stake after Elon Musk tweeted about the Reddit-fueled rally. Senvest's profit shows retail investors are far from the only winners of the market frenzy. Visit the Business section of Insider for…