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7 Burning Questions After Elon Musk’s $43 Billion Offer to Buy Twitter
We break down the biggest “what-ifs” for the company and what comes next
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How Elon Musk Can Pull Off a Hostile Takeover of Twitter | Analysis
The “Technoking” will look to buy more shares of the company to gain controlling interest — and that can be done in a few ways
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Elon Musk Will Not Join Twitter Board
The mercurial billionaire informed Twitter on Saturday, who told everybody else on Sunday night
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Twitter Adds Elon Musk to Board, Limits His Potential Stake to Under 15%
Moves come after the Tesla founder acquired 9.2% of the social media company
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Why BuzzFeed’s Future May Depend on Pivoting to NFTs and the Metaverse
To build solid growth, the digital company needs to think beyond traditional media and e-commerce
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Stephen Wilhite, Creator of the GIF, Dies of COVID at 74
He told The New York Times in 2013 that the image format was pronounced “jif”
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Big Tech Is Even Bigger Than You Think: $2.7 Trillion Apple Is Now Worth 11 Disneys | Charts
The Big Five tech companies have valuations way, way higher than the major oil and media conglomerates
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Netflix Shuts Down Service in Russia
Streaming suspension comes a week after Netflix refused to comply with Russian law requiring it to carry propaganda channels
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YouTube Cuts Off Revenue for RT and Other Russian Channels, Restricts Access in Ukraine
Restrictions come following a request from Ukraine’s culture minister
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How a Children’s TV Show Is Paving the Way for Metaverse Entertainment | PRO Insight
Peacock’s “Babble Bop!” is one of many new shows that is using new production techniques that will be come commonplace
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Sony Acquires ‘Halo’ Game Developer Bungie in $3.6 Billion Deal
The gaming studio also behind “Destiny” will still self-publish, and be multiplatform and creatively independent
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Apple Beats Wall Street Expectations With Record $124 Billion Quarter
Services revenue was up another 24% to $19.5 billion
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $99 Million in 2021, With $82 Million in Stock Awards
Cook’s 2020 executive compensation was less than $15 million
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Netflix, Disney+ and IMDb Slowed by Amazon Web Services Outage
Amazon did not disclose the cause of the widespread outage, which impacted companies, governments and organizations worldwide
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Spotify Pulls Comedy Acts Like John Mulaney and Tiffany Haddish Over Royalty Dispute
Global rights company Spoken Giants is pushing for Spotify to pay writers’ royalties the same way they pay them to songwriters