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Back to news homeElon Musk Is Tweeting Through a Tide of Criticism
Under pressure and facing a wave of criticism, Elon Musk has increasingly turned to his favorite release valve: Twitter.Since Saturday, Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man and the new owner […]
Silicon Valley’s Elite Get Dragged Into Musk-Twitter Trial
Jack Dorsey, a founder of Twitter, got a subpoena. So did Marc Andreessen, a prominent venture capitalist. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman, and the investors David Sacks and Joe Lonsdale received […]
How Twitter’s Board Went From Fighting Elon Musk to Accepting Him
Twitter’s board had reached the end of the road.It was April 24. Ten days earlier, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, had made an unsolicited bid to buy Twitter for […]
Twitter Employees Search for Answers as Musk Deal Takes Shape
In January 2020, thousands of Twitter employees gathered in Houston for a corporate summit called #OneTeam. During the event, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive at the time, revealed he had […]
Twitter’s Board Is Said to Seriously Consider Elon Musk’s Bid
Twitter may be moving closer to a deal with Elon Musk.The board of the social media service met on Sunday morning to discuss Mr. Musk’s unsolicited $46.5 billion bid to […]
Twitter Counters Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid With a Poison Pill
Poison pills have been around for decades. The lawyer Martin Lipton, a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, invented the maneuver, also called a shareholder rights plan, in […]
Twitter Expected to Employ Poison Pill to Counter Musk Takeover
Twitter on Friday unveiled its counterattack against Elon Musk by putting in place a corporate maneuver known as a poison pill.The strategy aims to slow or block Mr. Musk’s $43 […]
Elon Musk, After Toying With Twitter, Now Wants It All
Should Twitter put such a measure in place, Mr. Musk could take his bid directly to shareholders with a so-called tender offer. If they like Mr. Musk’s offer, they could […]
Reinvention and Nostalgia: The Project to Remake Twitter
The Bluesky project would eventually allow for the creation of new curation algorithms, which would show different tweets at the top of users’ timelines than Twitter’s own algorithm. It would […]