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Trump’s son wants SA-born entrepreneur Elon Musk to create a new social media platform. Image: REUTERS/Kyle Grillot/File PhotoElon‚ can you help a boytjie out? US President Donald Trump may have had his Twitter account permanently suspended‚ but his son is already out here looking for an alternative to help his…

| Published: Thursday, January 14, 2021, 18:34 New Delhi, Jan 14: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed the company's plans to enter the Indian market, within days of the electric vehicle maker registering its arm in the country. "As promised," Musk tweeted in response to a thread linked to a…

Tesla was asked by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall around 158,000 vehicles over faulty touchscreens, the agency said in a letter to the company Wednesday. The NHTSA said the media control units on certain Tesla vehicles failed after their memory ran out, causing issues with the backup…

Facebook responded to the backlash over the new WhatsApp privacy policy changes, explaining in a FAQ that the app will not lose end-to-end encryption and other privacy features in the upcoming update. WhatsApp prompted users to agree to the new privacy policy a few days ago. Millions of people downloaded…

Elon Musk is under siege by fellow billionaires at Amazon and Dish as he tries to get his fledgling space-based broadband service off the ground, with clashes involving airwave overload and the threat of satellite collisions. Why it matters: Musk's Starlink service could extend broadband to unconnected customers in hard-to-reach rural areas.…

Such is the power of Elon Musk that one tweet can send the shares of a stock soaring. Even of the wrong company. Shares of Signal Advance skyrocketed after the Tesla CEO tweeted “Use Signal” early on Jan. 7. Musk likely meant Signal, the encrypted messaging service and app. It…

A few hours ago I downloaded Signal. The WhatsApp rival that has been endorsed by Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and many others. You can call it the bandwagon effect, but I just wanted to see what the hype was about. I didn’t expect to see many other users I knew…

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 02: Tesla head Elon Musk arrives at a retreat of the German Christian Democrats CDU/CSU Bundestag faction on September 02, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for…

Ofcom has given the thumbs-up to SpaceX's Starlink broadband user terminals, opening the door to a UK launch of Elon Musk's satellite-based broadband service. The approval – which was issued in November but only recently became public knowledge – pertains to the receiver equipment nicknamed internally by the company as…