Tag: elon musk

• Monday, April 8th 2024 - 21:38 UTC

  Musk's social platform to disregard Brazilian Court's orders to suspend users posting alleged fake news?

  

  Business mogul Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has taken on Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes for wanting to censor content spread via the internet. “Why are you demanding so much censorship in Brazil?,” Musk asked the magistrate.

• Tuesday, February 27th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Satellite internet providers allowed to operate in Argentina

  

  Argentine authorities approved in a resolution published Monday in the Official Gazette that companies such as Amazon Kuiper, OneWeb, and Elon Musk's Starlink may start providing satellite internet connectivity to local users, it was reported in Buenos Aires. The service will become available in the second quarter of 2024.

• Thursday, December 7th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Milei reaches out to Elon Musk and confirms Central Bank head

  

  Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei said Wednesday that he spoke “extensively” on the telephone with tycoon Elon Musk, who shall not be attending the Dec. 10 inauguration in Buenos Aires.

• 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.