Influence
It’s not an obvious marriage, but it has worked.
“He paid $20 million for a tweet,” Kara Swisher says on the latest episode of Pivot. “Who says Twitter can’t make money?”
The company is in talks with Tiger Global and its existing shareholders for an investment of up to $500 million.
The move comes in the wake of mounting criticism of the company’s treatment of warehouse workers.
How does a celebrated, tight-knit partnership keep the luster of its brand as it changes its personnel?
But the entrepreneur gets to remain CEO of the electric carmaker.
We asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg that same question.
Musk said he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private. That’s not true, says the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The popular photo and video app and its social network parent have become more intertwined. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger were not into it.
“I don’t think that’s fair or right,” Dorsey says.
Dorsey says “we have definitely been gamed” by bad-faith actors and doesn’t expect that Twitter will ever build a “perfect antidote.”
Meeker is leading an exodus in a huge split at one of Silicon Valley’s most famous firms.
Don’t expect this announcement to put a pause to questions about how he spends his fortune and how to understand his legacy.
A capsule review of tech’s visit to Washington: The Senate seemed serious, the House did not, and Republicans aren’t done complaining about bias.
It’s going to be a long day for Jack Dorsey and Twitter at the Capitol tomorrow. Facebook should be okay.
A new breed of entrepreneurs is creating huge consumer brands — like MVMT and Tuft & Needle — without venture capital, and laughing all the way to the bank.
Haystack founder Semil Shah says his number-one piece of advice is “come bearing gifts.”
The tech responsibility conversation heads to late-night cable.
One of his pupils was mocked for saying he wanted his company to make the world a better place; Gil’s advice? “Find better friends.”
Digiday Editor in Chief Brian Morrissey says publishers were naïve if they didn’t think Facebook would eventually put its own interests above theirs.
On NYTimes.com: Let me answer the question many are thinking: Is he crazy?
Not only are the Saudis a viable pool of cash for cash-seekers, they are building considerable leverage in Silicon Valley deal-making.
He says Saudi Arabia has been interested in funding his take-private transaction. That’s different.
News cycles come and go, but data is forever.
Tesla stock jumped to a high of $371 after Musk tweeted he was considering taking the company private at $420 a share.
Index Ventures is quietly encroaching on the top tier of American investors. Here are five questions with them.
$2 trillion, though, will be tricky.
Facebook says it doesn’t know who is behind the campaigns, but Russia seems like a good guess.
Is Tesla succeeding in its transition to becoming a mass-market automaker? Elon Musk may have a lot to say, but the data will say more.
The social communications company’s stock tanked on negative user growth, but CEO Jack Dorsey think efforts to clean up the service will pay off down the line.
The social company is trying to clean up its act, but how much is it spending and will it cost Twitter any users?
Facebook added 22 million new daily users last quarter, its smallest quarterly jump since at least 2011.
The social network’s last 18 months have been a waking nightmare. Wall Street doesn’t care.
The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information.
The Facebook founder has attracted controversy for how the social network deals with content that is offensive to many, such as Holocaust denying.
“And they do not share the values that we have.”
Facebook prefers to slow the spread of conspiracy theories. That’s better than outright banning them, said the social media kingpin.