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Elon Ditches Twitter Deal; High-Stakes Litigation Expected

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Billionaires these days . . . . We’re away for a week, and Elon goes and blows everything to hell. After announcing that, actually, he would not be buying Twitter for the $44 billion he promised back in April, Musk presided...more

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Twitter Looks to Streamline Even As Musk Puts Acquisition “On Hold”

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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal took dramatic action this week, firing two top execs, freezing “most new hiring,” and announcing plans to slash spending “as the social media company tries to change its business trajectory while...more

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U.S. Job Openings (and Quits) Hit All-Time Highs

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U.S. job openings remained strong, “with 11.5 million positions listed as available in March, underscoring the continuing strength of the labor market.” The number of workers voluntarily leaving jobs “also reached a high” in...more

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Tech Drags Markets to Dismal April Performance

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A slumping tech sector pulled markets lower on Tuesday, “adding to a losing streak that has April shaping up to be Wall Street’s worst month in two years.” For the S&P 500, that translates into a nearly 8% decline for the...more

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Elon Musk Strikes Deal to Take Twitter Private for $44B

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Elon Musk and Twitter brass struck a deal on Monday in which Musk will spend $44 billion to “take over the influential social network frequented by world leaders, celebrities and cultural trendsetters” and take it private....more

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Apollo Global Weighing Bankrolling Musk’s Play for Twitter

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Back at it. Let’s get caught up . . . The latest in the Elon Musk/Twitter drama includes word that PE firm Apollo Global Mgmt is “considering” joining a bid by Musk to acquire the social media platform, a potential early...more

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Musk Reverses Course, Eschews Twitter Board Seat

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In the reversal heard around the tech world on Monday, Elon Musk announced that he would not be joining Twitter’s Board of Directors after all. The social media company had extended the invite to Musk after news broke that he...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.8.2021 | Top Story: Congress Passes Massive Infrastructure Package

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It was a slog, to be sure, but Congress finally made President Biden’s infrastructure plan a reality late Friday, guaranteeing nearly “$600 billion in new federal aid to improve highways, bridges, dams, public transit, rail,...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Though he was apparently ready to go with his “verbal agreement with the Saudis” defense, Elon Musk capitulated to pressure “from his lawyers and investors of Tesla” and agreed to resolve all SEC allegations of wrongdoing,...more

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The Times went all in on Twinkies this weekend, with a look at how they came to be and how their comeback recently helped private equity execs laugh their way to the bank....more

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The latest from the CFPB and its “Project Catalyst,” which aims to “encourage the development of innovative consumer financial products that meet regulatory requirements” [think Fintech]....more

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China’s expected to announce Q3 economic growth of 6.7 percent this week—a number envied by any other country in the world but the sign of major slowdown there. Dealbook looks at what, exactly, a less-gangbusters Chinese...more

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Regulators aren’t the only ones after Theranos now. On Monday, one of its major investors—Partner Fund Management—filed suit against the embattled blood-testing company in Delaware state court over an alleged series of...more

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Some good news for the UK after a brutal few days for the pound? It appears that the pound’s precipitous fall has acted as a sort of “giant shock absorber” against Brexit—a release valve of sorts that has meant decreased...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 10.5.16

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Investor plaintiffs won a big discovery battle with the US gov’t over its 2012 decision to seize Fannie & Freddie’s profits. Federal Claims Court Judge Margaret Sweeney has ruled that the government improperly invoked the...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 9.27.16

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We learned yesterday that Twitter’s shopping itself around for a buyer. It’s facing one big complication, though—the sizeable amount of stock Twitter has doled out to its employees over the years. Last year, for example,...more

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Your daily dose of financial news The Brief – 6.8.16

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Despite Tribune Publishing’s (wait, wait, is that tronc now?) best efforts to play defense, Gannett is not backing down from its unsolicited offer to acquire the publisher...more

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CFPB launches Spanish-language Twitter and Facebook accounts

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The CFPB recently announced that it has launched official Spanish-language Twitter and Facebook accounts.  The CFPB previously launched a Spanish-language website and recently updated the translations on the “Ask CFPB”...more

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Cyber prosecutions update

The feds have been busy on the cyber prosecutions front. First, on March 18, 2016, the FBI announced that a multi-agency collaborative effort blew up an identity theft ring whose leader was an inmate in a Georgia prison. The...more

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Hacker arrests and prosecutions update

We previously reported that alleged Ukranian hacker Sergey Vovnenko, also known as “Flycracker,” “Fly” and “Darklife” was extradited from Italy, arrested and charged in New Jersey federal court for his part in disbursing the...more

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#Retweet the #CFPB: How Social Media is Affecting Consumer Advocacy

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Social media has become an integral part of our society, and now it's playing a big role in our industry, too. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is harnessing the power of Facebook and Twitter not only to create...more

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UK’s Financial Services Regulator: No Hashtags in Financial Promotions

Earlier this month the UK’s financial services regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), issued its final guidance on financial promotions made via social media channels. As we reported last year, the FCA...more

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