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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval — - Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
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| @jack: |
Taking Twitter private “is the correct first step” and Musk's goal to create a “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive” platform “is the right one” — I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness.
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Tweets: @jack, @jack, @jack, @jack, @jack, @profgalloway, @bauhiniacapital, @elliotturn, @tvietor08, @billcorbett, @maxberger, @jyarow, @lizcarolan, @phastidio, @qhardy, @kateconger, @michelleyesudas, @profcarroll, and @cosmicrami
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Twitter employees say they heard little from Elon Musk, CEO Parag Agrawal, management, and Charles Schwab about what a sale to the billionaire means for them — Workers say they have been left largely in the dark about what a sale to the billionaire will mean for them and their shares in the company.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Some former employees say Twitter, which has long been an underperformer, stands a better chance of improving the service as a private company run by Elon Musk — What employees are saying. PLUS: Musk's key decisions — In the moments before Elon Musk bought Twitter …
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Tweets: @eddie1perez, @tasharobinson, @nohillside, @cengizyar, @quinnae_moon, and @mrandyngo
| Financial Times: |
Sources detail how Elon Musk's Twitter bid succeeded: Morgan Stanley gathering support for $25.5B in loans, overcoming initial shareholder doubts, and more — Tesla boss convinced Wall Street sceptics to back his $44bn takeover offer — Just 12 days ago, some of the most experienced operators …
Tweets: @jimpethokoukis, @carnage4life, @iankmsmith, @anmailleach, @chassnews, @financialtimes, @brexit_sham, and @bondhack
| Brooke Singman / Fox News: |
Trump says that, regardless of Elon Musk's Twitter purchase, “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth”, whose stock closed down 12.9% on Monday — Trump said a Musk Twitter takeover would be a positive development, but he will stay with his own platform
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Tweets: @sethabramson, @maggienyt, @mor10, @kysportsradio, @fredbenenson, @juliaioffe, @jeffjarvis, @juliussharpe, and @doney
| Ranjan Roy / Margins: |
Elon Musk is buying Twitter to protect his ability to tweet, which is vital to his business interests, combatting the SEC, and because Tesla's stock stalled out — A mini-grand theory on what he's up to with Twitter … A running theory of mine is that, in January 2018 … | The Verge: |
Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans” — Elon Musk will buy Twitter for $44 billion — Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's offer to purchase the company for $44 billion …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
| Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
A hacker stole 91 NFTs, worth at least $2.8M, through a phishing attack compromising Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram and promoting a malicious “mint” link — Quick Take — Bored Ape Yacht Club's official Instagram account was hacked. — A hacker stole 91 NFTs from users …
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Tweets: @boredapeyc, @boredapeyc, @zachxbt, @cryptogarga, @cryptogarga, @ediggs, @deg3n, @thetoddwilliams, @inversebrah, and @yokomson
| Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal: |
Fidelity will let retirement savers put bitcoin into their 401(k) accounts starting later in 2022, the first major retirement plan provider to do so — Investment giant's move could send cryptocurrency investing further into mainstream if employers decide to offer option
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Tweets: @thinkingbitmex, @jeffbooth, @gladstein, @adamnash, and @cz_binance
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Amazon's Buy with Prime will make it difficult for Shopify to get its own shipping solution to scale by deepening Amazon's nearly impregnable moat in logistics — Five months and $134 billion in market cap ago (before the stock slipped by 68%), Bloomberg Businessweek purported to explain …
Tweets: @carnage4life, @hzhu_, and @vivekraju93
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Emails reveal how some police officers have become superfans of autonomous drone company Skydio and regularly help to sell or promote its products to colleagues — A drone company called Skydio has managed to get autonomous drones into dozens of police departments by turning cops into their biggest fans.
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