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Lawsuit: Musk saved $143 million by illegally waiting to disclose Twitter stake

(credit: Getty Images | eccolo74) Elon Musk is facing a shareholder lawsuit over his failure to reveal his investment in Twitter until 11 days after a deadline set simply by federal law. Musk started buying Twitter stock in January and acquired more than 5 percent of all shares by March 14, the lawsuit said. Under […]

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Elon Musk won’t join Twitter board, can thus exceed 14. 9% ownership cap

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Elon Musk will not be joining Twitter’s board of directors, dropping out of a deal that would have prohibited him from buying more than 14. 9 percent of the company’s stock. Musk had agreed to join the board after purchasing 9. 2 percent of Twitter’s stock, but Twitter CEO […]

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Twitter plans edit button, says Elon Musk’s poll had nothing to do with it

Enlarge / Forthcoming “Edit Tweet” option as seen in a post by Twitter’s communications team. (credit: Twitter ) Twitter is adding an edit button, the company said yesterday. The “Edit Tweet” option will become available “in the coming months” to users of the paid Twitter Blue subscription, with a potential rollout to other users later […]

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Musk joins Twitter board in deal that prevents him from buying majority stake

Enlarge / Elon Musk at a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas on February 10, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Jim Watson) Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors in a deal that prohibits him from buying more than 14.9 percent of the company’s stock, Twitter announced today. The news of Musk joining […]

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Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to BGP mishap

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after a major ISP in that country misconfigured the Internet’s routing table, network monitoring services said. The mishap lasted for about 45 minutes before RTCOMM, a leading ISP in Russia, stopped advertising its network as the […]

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Russian oil tankers go dark, evading name-and-shame Twitter bot

Enlarge / Activists from the environmental organization Greenpeace demonstrate in the Baltic Sea in front of a ship carrying Russian oil on March 23, 2022. (credit: Frank Molter/picture alliance) First there was the Russian oligarch jet tracker ; then there was the particular Russian oligarch yacht tracker; now there’s the Russian oil tanker tracker. The […]

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Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Had 10 Different Substances In His System When He Died, Colombian Officials Say

New details have been revealed in the wake of Taylor Hawkins‘ death. According to E! News, the Attorney General’s Office in Columbia released on Saturday to Twitter the results of the toxicology report for the late Foo Fighters drummer, revealing he had multiple types of substances in his system at the time of death. They […]

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Is Doja Cat OK?? Performer Goes OFF On Twitter After Fan Feud, Says She’s Quitting Music!

Is Doja Cat throwing in the towel on music? It sure sounds like a strong possibility, at least based on the 26-year-old performer’s series of tweets on Thursday night! What made Doja want to walk away from her career all of a sudden? Well, it all started when the Boss Bitch rapper was supposed to perform at […]

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Congressman’s Wife BLASTS Him For Having 10-Year Affair – And Still Running For Re-Election!

The wife of Democratic congressman Steven Horsford did NOT hold back her feelings over her husband choosing to run for re-election two years after his decade-long affair came to light! Horsford, who represents Nevada’s 4th Congressional District, admitted back in May 2020 to having an affair with former Senate intern Gabriela Linder after she came […]