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SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to terminate the merger agreement, claiming that Twitter didn't provide the relevant business info he requested — Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal — Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh? — Oh Elon — I think it is helpful to start with the big picture.
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Twitter board chair Bret Taylor says the company plans to pursue legal action to enforce the deal and is committed to closing on the agreed upon price and terms — Elon Musk is bailing on his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, claiming that the social media company hasn't met its contractual obligations …
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In an internal memo, Twitter's general counsel says employees should “refrain from tweeting, Slacking, or sharing any commentary about the merger agreement” — The company says it's suing Musk for trying to back out — Following Elon Musk's notice to Twitter that he wants … | Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
A look at the quirky geography game GeoGuessr, in which the world's best players can pinpoint in seconds where a Google Street View image has been taken — In a game called GeoGuessr, competitors try to pinpoint where in the world a Google Street View image has been taken. Some can do it in seconds.
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Africa-based Chinese influencers who post racist videos about Africans on apps like Douyin and Kuaishou made fortunes from China's livestream shopping industry — “Chinese people love watching how other places are not as good as China.” — On the afternoon of May 24, a beauty pageant took place at an apartment in Kitwe, Zambia.
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
As tech stocks fall, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, GGV, and other VC firms are buying publicly traded stocks of companies whose prospects they deem to be strong — Plunging shares of tech stocks have prompted venture capital firms to take an unusual step: buying publicly traded stocks.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Joe Biden issues an EO asking the FTC and other agencies to examine and reinforce protections for reproductive health and other sensitive health-related data — An executive order signed by President Biden places the White House's weight firmly behind states where access to abortion is guaranteed …
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An interview with NIST mathematician Dustin Moody on the agency's recently selected “quantum-resistant” encryption algorithms — The NIST's “quantum-resistant” encryption standards, picked via contest, were designed to keep everybody one step ahead of hacking by quantum computers.
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Sources: Google has proposed splitting parts of its ad-tech business into a separate entity under Alphabet, to head off a possible US antitrust lawsuit — Tech giant's offers stop short of the asset sales preferred by Justice Department antitrust enforcers
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
CIRP: the number of US Amazon Prime members remained at ~172M as of June 30, the same as six months earlier, after Amazon raised prices in February 2022 — Amazon.com Inc.'s number of Prime members in the US stagnated in the first half of the year, suggesting a $20 annual price increase …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the US called on Japan to urge the country's cryptocurrency miners in Siberia and licensed crypto exchanges still in Russia to sever ties with Russia — Washington's request aimed at further financially isolating Moscow — The US has called on Japan to step up pressure …
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