(Reuters) – Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021, a year that saw his electric car company become the most valuable carmaker in the world and his rocket company soar to the edge of space with an all-civilian crew. Musk is also the founder and CEO of SpaceX, and leads brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company. Tesla’s market value soared to more than $1 trillion this year, making it more valuable… Source link
Read More »Binance founder fires back at Tesla CEO Elon Musk
The war of words between Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is heating up. Musk tweeted at Zhao on Tuesday after the cryptocurrency exchange limited withdrawals of dogecoin. “Well, I don’t intend to be sassy on Twitter… In his tweet he said I am shady,” said Zhao, known as CZ in crypto circles, on Yahoo Finance Live, when asked about the recent Twitter exchange. “I am not aggressive by nature, but not submissive or cowardly when it comes to defending our… Source link
Read More »Musk Taunts Sanders, Suggests He’ll Sell More Tesla Stock
(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, directed a series of insults at Bernie Sanders on Twitter after the U.S. senator repeated his call for billionaires to pay more in taxes. Most Read from Bloomberg Musk even raised the notion of selling more of his Tesla Inc. shares, which would require him to pay capital gains taxes. The 80-year-old Sanders, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, on Saturday tweeted that “we must… Source link
Read More »Big Short’s Michael Burry Thinks Elon Musk ‘Just Wants to Sell Tesla’ – Yahoo Finance
Reuters IBM, Amazon partner to extend reach of data tools for oil companies International Business Machines Corp and Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Web Services said on Monday they would work together to extend the reach of a set of tools that oil companies use to manage disparate types of data. Amazon in 2018 worked with Royal Dutch Shell to create a technology to turn data from more than a century of oil production, largely from paper records, into a standardized format for multinational oil… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk Loses $50 Billion in Two Days in Record Wealth Plunge
(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk has lost $50 billion so far this week after Tesla Inc. shares plunged for the second day in a row. Most Read from Bloomberg It’s the biggest two-day decline in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and the biggest one-day fall after Jeff Bezos’s $36 billion plunge following his divorce from MacKenzie Scott in 2019. Tesla’s rout comes amid a tumultuous few days for the automaker. It started when Musk asked his Twitter followers over the weekend whether… Source link
Read More »Stocks jump to new records at the open; Tesla weighed by Musk pledge
Stocks on Monday extended a record-setting streak of gains on Wall Street, opening at new highs as traders looked ahead to a slew of new inflation data and earnings results in the coming days. At the opening bell, the Dow, S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq all notched fresh highs, carried by last week’s momentum when all three major indexes jumped to their best levels ever. Optimism over a batch of strong corporate profit reports, a better-than-anticipated October jobs report and a Federal Reserve… Source link
Read More »Musk Should Sell $21 Billion Tesla Stake
(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk’s social media followers have spoken: The Tesla Inc. chief should sell 10% of his stake in the electric-car maker. Most Read from Bloomberg A majority of 3.5 million Twitter users — 58% — said they’d support such a sale in a Twitter poll that Musk launched Saturday and closed shortly after 2:15 p.m. Sunday in New York. The stake would be valued at about $21 billion based on 170.5 million Tesla shares he holds. “I was prepared to accept either outcome,” Musk… Source link
Read More »Tesla’s Musk signals concerns over Nvidia deal for UK chip maker -The Telegraph
Aug 28 (Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has signaled competition concerns over Nvidia Corp’s planned purchase of British chip designer Arm, the Telegraph reported on Saturday, citing multiple sources. E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc and smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd have also lodged opposition to the deal with U.S. authorities, the newspaper reported. Earlier this year, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened an in-depth probe into the takeover. The probe findings… Source link
Read More »Tesla’s Musk says must keep to schedule on European gigafactory
BERLIN (Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made clear how important it is for the company to keep to its schedule for the construction of its European gigafactory in the German state of Brandenburg, its Economy Minister Joerg Steinbach said. Tesla also said it was willing to intensify communication in the site near the town of Gruenheide and involve local citizens more, Steinbach told Reuters after a meeting with Musk in Germany on Wednesday. Tesla has pushed back the expected opening of its… Source link
Read More »Instagram restricts teens’ accounts, Elon Musk criticizes App Store fees, Google Play’s new policies – TechCrunch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American
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