Tag: elon musk

• Saturday, August 12th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

  Tech billionaires Musk and Zucherberg in an ¨epic cage duel, Roman style¨

  

  A Roman duel in tech times. In effect, Elon Musk on Friday said he spoke with Italy's culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, about planning a cage fight with rival tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg in Italy.

• Thursday, May 25th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

  DeSantis finally announces White House bid on Twitter

  

  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Wednesday announced he would be participating in the primary elections of the Republican Party to run for President of the United States in 2024. He will face former President Donald Trump, among others, if he is to make it to the White House. “I'm running for president to lead our great American comeback,” De Santis wrote on Twitter, where he also participated in a broadcast interview with Elon Musk.

• Saturday, May 13th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Linda Yaccarino is Twitter's new CEO as Elon Musk steps down

  

  According to the Washington Post, Linda Yaccarino has been chosen to succeed tycoon Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter. She was working as president of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal. The announcement comes the day after Musk said he would be stepping down and that he will move into the role of executive chairman and CTO (chief technology officer). In December, Musk asked his Twitter followers if he should step down as CEO and 57.5% said yes.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:41 UTC

  Twitter stunt by Elon Musk results in cryptocurrency soaring

  

  Twitter adopting Dogecoin's Japanese Shiba Inu dog symbol as the brand's logo resulted in an increase in value of over 26%, it was reported.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 14:09 UTC

  Pause AI development: Open letter from world's tech leaders urges labs to stop

  

  Elon Musk and many other experts around the world have recently signed a petition requesting a six-month pause on research into artificial intelligence (AI) that is more powerful than ChatGPT 4, the OpenAI model that was launched this month.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Half of Twitter workers to lose their jobs under Musk

  

  Twitter workers found out Friday that their jobs were on the line as they were told not to go to the office and stay at home because all access cards had been suspended.

• Friday, October 28th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Musk finally takes over Twitter and sacks many top executives

  

  South African entrepreneur Elon Musk Thursday agreed to buy Twitter for US$ 44 billion and sacked many top executives as his first move proving he was in charge of the social media platform.

• Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Musk backs down on Twitter buy-over deal

  

  South African billionaire Elon Musk finally decided not to move forward with his plans to buy over Twitter and withdraw the US$ 44 billion he had once offered.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 00:27 UTC

  Musk's Twitter account grows despite his absence from social media

  

  Billionaire Elon Musk, who has vowed to buy over the Twitter social media platform, has suddenly vanished from the space, thus raising speculations about his ulterior motives, as both his tweets and the negotiations for the transaction are on hold.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Musk has second thoughts on Twitter deal

  

  Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is now having second thoughts about his announcement to buy over Twitter for US$ 44 billion, saying the company is hiding key information from him about fake posts and “spam”.