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The full version of this article, along with thousands like it, can be found here: Elon Musk emerges victorious in the fight for Twitter News broke late yesterday that the Twitter Board had accepted the offer from Elon Musk of $54.20 per share, a number that values the business at some $44 billion. After the acquisition closes, Twitter will revert back to being a privately held business. The current Board will therefore be disbanded and the Tesla and SpaceX CEO will be able to make any/all changes that he desires. More interesting that the end result will be to see how governments around the world respond to the acquisition. For the past years, the direction of travel (globally) has been towards silencing opposition voices; narrowing the Overton window of what is deemed acceptable discourse; with an orthodox worldview being pushed by corporate media... and (importantly) national and federated international governments like the European Union. Anyway, in terms of Twitter , it was...

The full version of this article, along with thousands like it, can be found here: Twitter: let the battle for ownership commence Elon Musk has seemingly been an advocate for what we call 'logical libertarianism' for quite some years now. A belief system that leans heavily towards personal freedom and less red tape, but unlike pure libertarians does see the need for some regulation as and where society needs it. His latest tweets about free speech and democracy were followed by a bid for Twitter . This has of course been heavily reported across the web and covered ad nausea by tech and political commentators. Twitter's Board of Directors, a group of esteemed professionals with quite diverse backgrounds, but little in the way of share ownership in the company adopted what is known as a “poison pill” last week in response to his very public $43 billion bid to acquire. Assuming Mr Musk hits the 15 per cent ownership threshold that the tactic is designed to be introduced...

The full version of this article, along with thousands like it, can be found here: Can Elon Musk bring tangible change to Twitter? When news broke that the worlds richest man Elon Musk was buying a >9% stake in Twitter, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Whilst it is true some of the more radical activists at the company threw their toys out of the pram, management both current and previous greeted the news with glee and excitement. Co-founder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey gave the news a big thumbs up, tweeting "I’m really happy Elon is joining the twitter board! He cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it"; as did the new Chief Executive Parag Agrawal who hinted that he had been working with Musk on product ideas for a few weeks. The importance of the relationship between the Board and the Chief Executive cannot be underestimated. A good Board member can be a huge asset to the CEO; and if the Board as a whole trust the Chief Executive to action th...

The full version of this article, along with thousands like it, can be found here: Google has released an emergency patch for the Chrome browser Google is urging all users of its popular Chrome web browser to update their installations as soon as possible. The emergency update comes just days after the Mountain View, California-based tech titan released the regular monthly security update for the Chrome web browser. The previous update patched a total of 78 security issues in the web browser including high and medium severity issues. The update brings the Stable release version of the browser to 99.0.4844.84. The update is already available for all supported desktop systems and Google notes that it will roll out automatically to all devices "over the coming days/weeks". "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 exists in the wild," the browser vendor said in an advisory post published on its blog on Friday . The update fixes a single security issue ...

The full version of this article, along with thousands like it, can be found here: Epic Games pledges humanitarian aid for Ukraine Epic Games, which is one of the biggest video games producers in the world has pledged its support to the people of war-torn Ukraine. From the 20th of March through to the 3rd of April, the North Carolina-based games industry player will commit proceeds from its ultra popular title “Fortnite” to humanitarian aid for those impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Epic posted a message about its efforts across its social media on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook . The company plans to support Direct Relief, the UN's Children Fund, its World Food Programme and the UNHCR. In an article posted to its website , the company said "Xbox is joining us in this effort and is committing their net proceeds for Fortnite during this time, so that we can get more aid to the people of Ukraine." “We’re not waiting for the actual funds to come in from ...

The full version of this article, along with thousands like it, can be found here: Android has a brand new taskbar and multi-window function Google’s Android OS was originally designed for smartphones, but eventually found its way to tablets and notable other devices such as Smart TV's and e-readers. The Mountain View, California-based initially positioning Chrome OS as its operating system for laptops such as Chromebooks… but it seems that a new version of Android could be about to change that. A recent look at a beta version of Android 13 has all but confirmed the rumours that had been doing the rounds for the past few months. It seems that Google has started to look into ways of positioning Android on larger screen devices, such as desktop and laptop pc's. For example, the recent Android 12L update added a taskbar and updated layouts for tablet devices and it now appears that the next major release of Android (Android 13) is continuing the trend with a new interface twe...

The full version of this article, along with thousands like it, can be found here: Microsoft looking to bring advertising into more of its software? It seems Microsoft is getting ready to integrate advertising into more of its products. Some Microsoft power users have noticed an advert in the latest iteration of Windows 11 File Explorer, available last week. The advert is said to promote other in-house products, notably Microsoft Editor. Still, the bigger story here is the fact that ads are being injected into the File Explorer in the first place. The Washington state-based tech titan has had various advertising platforms over the last two decades, with varying degrees of success, but its latest platform seems to be gaining traction over the past few years, as the ROI for clients has been good. Better than many other programmatic advertising networks, where the CPC (cost per click), or CPM (cost per mille) is unacceptably high. Along with its platform, Microsoft has often used cr...