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Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell.Angela Weiss, Amanda Edwards via Getty Images SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell defended Elon Musk following sexual misconduct claims. The top female executive said she didn’t believe the allegations against Musk, which Insider first reported. In a companywide email obtained by CNBC, Shotwell said she would “never” comment on legal matters. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell defended founder Elon Musk in an employee email last week following Insider’s… Source link

Elon Musk joked about letting Chad Hurley (right) touch his “wiener.”Gotham/Alberto E. Rodriguez via Getty Images Elon Musk joked about buying a horse for Chad Hurley if he touched Musk’s “wiener”. The Youtube cofounder told Musk to stop “horsing around” and close the Twitter deal. Musk has offered to buy the social media platform for $44 billion. Elon Musk has used sexual misconduct claims to joke about letting YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley touch his “wiener.” On Friday, Hurley mentioned Musk in… Source link

Elon Musk has finally come out, politically. He used to vote for Democrats, but henceforth can only vote for Republicans. The Tesla CEO and President Biden ought to be natural allies. Biden has an ambitious green-energy agenda, including the mass electrification of automobiles. Musk leads the world’s most prominent electric vehicle company. They’re rowing in the same direction and ought to be in the same boat. Instead, they’re splashing each other like 12-year-olds. Biden has miffed Musk… Source link

SpaceX paid $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against Elon Musk after a flight attendant on the company’s corporate jet accused the CEO of exposing himself to her mid-flight, Insider reports. According to Insider, the incident happened in 2016 and the company settled with the unnamed flight attendant in 2018, according to a friend of the flight attendant who was told contemporaneously about the incident but is not bound by any non-disclosure agreements with the company. Musk… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Getting rid of bots isn’t as easy as it sounds Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter (TWTR) is in purgatory. The brash Tesla (TSLA) CEO put the purchase on hold May 13, saying, on Twitter, of course, he couldn’t move forward with the acquisition until he can… Source link

Twitter investors should brace for an all-out crash in the stock price if Tesla CEO Elon Musk abandons his bid for the social media platform, warns one veteran tech analyst. “In the absence of a bid, we would not be surprised to see the stock find a floor at $22.50,” said Jefferies analyst Brent Thill said Tuesday in a new note to clients. Such a price would be about 40% lower than Twitter’s current trading level. Musk’s outstanding deal for Twitter is for $54.20 a share. The path is being cut… Source link

Elon Musk.Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Image Elon Musk argued for higher birth rates again, saying otherwise we will all “end up in adult diapers.” He claimed without evidence that the environment can support it “even if we doubled the size” of the global population. Experts have stated other factors causing birth rates to decline. Elon Musk argued on Monday that it’s “total nonsense” that people were not having have kids because it was bad for the environment, and made another… Source link

Elon Musk.HANNIBAL HANSCHKE /Getty Images Elon Musk’s excuse about Twitter bots is a way to back out of the deal, Wedbush said. Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion but could be feeling pressure amid falling Tesla stock. “We view the $44 billion Twitter deal as having less than a 50% [chance] to get done,” Wedbush said. There is now a less than 50% chance that Elon Musk will acquire Twitter for $44 billion, a Monday note from Dan Ives, a Wedbush analyst, said. Musk, who plans to put up a… Source link

Patrick Pleul/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Netflix’s company culture guidelines say staff should be able to work on content they find harmful. In response to a tweet about the guidelines, Elon Musk said it was a “good move” by Netflix. Musk last month said of Netflix: “The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.” Elon Musk praised Netflix for its new company culture guidelines that say it might not be the best place for employees who cannot work on content they disagree with or find… Source link

Experts remain mixed on the outlook for the organizational health of Twitter (TWTR) and Tesla (TSLA) following the announcement of Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout of the social media platform. The deal is expected to close around September to October and will take the company private. However, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) Director Sinan Aral thinks Musk may have bitten off more than he can chew. “In this case, I think that Elon Musk is in over his head this time because… Source link