Research shows content rules on Twitter help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation | FILIPPO MENCZER | Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, 2022 has triggered renewed debate about what it means for the future of the social media platform, which plays an important role in …
Read More »Elon Musk takes control of Twitter
San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Elon Musk completed his deal to buy Twitter at 44 billion U.S. dollars Thursday, gaining control of the social network company, CNN reported, citing sources familiar with the deal. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and finance chief Ned Segal have left the company’s San Francisco …
Read More »Elon Musk proposes to buy Twitter at original price
San Fransisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed to proceed with a deal to buy Twitter at the original price of 44 billion U.S. dollars, according to a financial filing on Tuesday. The offer came ahead of a trial scheduled at the Delaware Chancery Court on Oct. …
Read More »Elon Musk decides to terminate Twitter deal
San Fransisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided on Friday to terminate his 44 billion U.S. dollars deal to buy Twitter, blaming the company for withholding information on its number of spam and fake accounts. Musk’s lawyer claimed that Twitter failed to comply with its obligations in the …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Twitter test
If platform becomes too toxic, advertisers might leave altogether, jeopardising the its revenue COMMENT | ZACH MEYERS | With Elon Musk buying of Twitter for $44 billion, commentators are scrambling to understand what the “free speech absolutism” espoused by the world’s richest person will mean for the platform. But the …
Read More »Will Elon Musk turn activist at Twitter?
| THE INDEPENDENT | Elon Musk recently completed the purchase of 9.2% of Twitter’s stock and became the social media company’s largest shareholder. He was also offered a seat on the company’s board, which he declined. On one level, Musk’s investment seemed to make a lot of sense: Musk …
Read More »Twitter adopts “poison pill” after Musk’s acquisition intent
San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Twitter, Inc. on Friday announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan following an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire Twitter by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The Rights Plan, often called the “poison pill”, will reduce the likelihood that …
Read More »Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for 43 bln USD
San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday showed that Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter. The billionaire has said he is willing to pay 54.20 U.S. dollars per share to buy 100 percent of the company. The …
Read More »Historic flights carry humans into space
Billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos enter space race | THE INDEPENDENT | The sky over the Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was afire with lightning on the night of July 10. The storm was sufficiently fierce to postpone Virgin Galactic’s planned rollout of its twin airships, mothership …
Read More »Democratising innovation
Private firms undertake the bulk of R&D but governments fund it and must offer it direction COMMENT | DANI RODRIK | Innovation is the engine that drives contemporary economies. Living standards are determined by productivity growth, which in turn depends on the introduction and dissemination of new technologies that allow …
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