Elon Musk‘s father Errol Musk is opening up about the time he was involved in a gunfight.
13.09.2022 - 23:15 / deadline.com
Shareholders of Twitter voted Tuesday to approve the company’s sale to Elon Musk, a key administrative step that’s also a bit surreal as the billionaire Tesla founder is fighting in court to extricate himself from the deal.
The vote was scheduled months ago. It falls the same day a Twitter whistleblower is sounding off about the social media platform’s security and privacy policies, or lack thereof, at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, filed a whistleblower complaint against the company with federal agencies in July. Twitter has called him a disgruntled employee.
Today’s special stockholder meeting lasted only seven minutes with no questions. The end vote was not a surprise. The board had approved the deal last spring and recommended shareholders do the same. They started voting electronically weeks ago and reports indicated there were enough to approve. The exact tally will be announced later.
Musk owns 9.6% of Twitter. He initially wanted, and got, a board seat before deciding instead to buy the company outright, waiving due diligence. He inked the $44 billion deal in April and unilaterally terminated it in July, prompting Twitter to sue in a case currently in Delaware Chancery Court and heading to trial next month. Musk’s case looked soft initially but Zatko’s allegations may have given it new life. He spent the morning describing to senators what he called dangerously lax cybersecurity as the company focuses on revenue and user growth.
The latter claim overlaps partly with Musk’s main accusation, that Twitter lies about the number of fake accounts on its platform. A judge last week agreed over Twitter’s objections to let the Musk camp amend its countersuit
Elon Musk‘s father Errol Musk is opening up about the time he was involved in a gunfight.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Ari Emanuel, the legendary Hollywood agent who is CEO of Endeavor, reportedly got involved in the dispute between Twitter and Elon Musk over Musk’s attempt to nix his takeover of the company — but it’s not exactly clear why. Within the “past few weeks,” Emanuel had reached out to Twitter board member Egon Durban to suggest the social network work with Musk to “find a solution” to their legal fight ahead of a trial scheduled to commence Oct. 17 in Delaware Chancery Court, according to a report by Bloomberg Law citing anonymous sources. Emanuel has ties to both Durban and Musk. Durban, co-CEO of tech investment firm Silver Lake, currently sits on Endeavor’s board. Musk had been on Endeavor’s board of directors before resigning in March 2022.
K.J. Yossman BBC have unveiled their fall/winter arts and factual slate including documentaries on Elon Musk and fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who tragically died last year at the age of 41, as well as a new Louis Theroux series in which he interviews stars including Judi Dench, Rita Ora and Stormzy. “I’ve been in my new role for four months and I’ve been blown away by the sheer range, scale and quality of programming coming out of the factual, arts and classical music departments,” said Kate Phillips, director for unscripted. “From stand out documentaries like ‘The Real Mo Farah’ and ‘Freddie’s Field of Dreams’ to the BBC Proms and the launch of ‘Frozen Planet II,’ the team here are at the very top of their game, bringing audiences high impact, uniquely public service content at its very best. We’ve got plenty more to look forward to in the months ahead and I’m excited to unveil such an impressive array of diverse new content featuring big and upcoming talent, and bringing us new perspectives, incredible access and big moments for everyone.”
Oscar-winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson has lined up his next project – a documentary on the late groundbreaking hip hop producer J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey).
Earlier this year, Grimes gave a candid interview to Vanity Fair and subsequently revealed that she and Tesla/Space-X founder Elon Musk had broken up, while also welcoming their second child together.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Twitter shareholders want Elon Musk to keep his word and buy out the social network for $44 billion. But the tech multibillionaire is doing everything he can to try to nix the deal. On Tuesday, at a special meeting of Twitter shareholders, the company’s investors voted in favor of approving Musk’s takeover, which was announced in April. But the vote was a minor formality to the main issue: that Musk doesn’t want to buy Twitter anymore. Musk is heading toward a court trial to fight Twitter’s demand that he close the deal at the $54.20/share price that was previously agreed on.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk keeps finding new reasons why he believes he can back out of his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter. In a Sept. 9 letter to Twitter, Musk’s lawyers called out the social network’s separation agreement with Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — its former head of security who was fired in January — under which Twitter made severance payments to Zatko and his counsel totaling $7.75 million. That, according to Musk’s legal team, violated a provision of the acquisition agreement under which Twitter agreed to not “grant or provide any severance or termination payments or benefits to any Company Service Provider other than the payment of severance amounts or benefits in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice” without first getting approval from Musk. The definition of “Company Service Provider” includes Twitter’s former employees, per the letter.
A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled that Elon Musk may amend a countersuit vs Twitter to include a whistleblower complaint, but denied his request for a trial extension, keeping an Oct. 17 start date.
Lawyers for Elon Musk dialed upped the drama in Delaware Chancery Court today, insisting nothing less than “justice and truth” requires a three-week extension to the planned start date of a trial over whether the billionaire Tesla founder must honor his agreement to buy the social media platform.
Elon Musk has heavily criticised Amazon‘s Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power following the release of its first two episodes.READ MORE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power review: epic fantasy franchise returns to rule them allThe Tesla CEO recently took to Twitter to deliver his damming verdict, writing: “Tolkien is turning in his grave.”In a follow-up tweet, he added: “Almost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice.”Set thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings, the J.D.
Elon Musk’s verdict on Amazon’s massive budget drama series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power? “Tolkien is turning in his grave”.
Passionflix, a romance-focused streaming service run by Elon Musk’s sister, Tosca Musk, has raised $9.4 million in a funding round led by AMC Networks.