Month: April 2022

Musk’s offer may not be viable but it has put Twitter in a position where it is now open to acquisition; should it fend off Musk, it will watch its stock drop (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: Musk’s offer may not be viable but it has put Twitter in a position where it is now open to acquisition; should it fend off Musk, it will watch its stock drop  —  Oh Elon  —  Well that was weird.  On Tuesday I wrote a column saying it was unlikely that

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[Thread]: After Bill Gross’ 2015 hostile takeover attempt, Twitter locked the API and limited third-party clients to 100K users until Dorsey’s return (@rabble)

@rabble: [Thread]: After Bill Gross’ 2015 hostile takeover attempt, Twitter locked the API and limited third-party clients to 100K users until Dorsey’s return  —  Twitter is important, but it’s always been vulnerable as a company. When Twitter does something which upsets the community of users, it is often due to this vulnerability. Let me tell

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How to set when Apple TV goes to sleep

Putting Apple TV to sleep after some time can be beneficial, especially when showing off your screensaver. If you walk out of the room for 15 minutes and return to find that your Apple TV has prematurely gone to sleep, you might want to increase your time before it shuts off. You might want to

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Mini DarkTower Clone Restores Your Childhood

Remember DarkTower? No? Well, it’s a really cool combination board game, RPG, and computer game from 1981. Orson Welles pimped it on TV and explained it thusly: “collect three keys, lay siege to the tower, and defeat the enemy within”. The Tower itself was a battery-powered computer on lazy Susan that showed numbers on a

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Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter

(Photo:Joshua Hoehne/Unsplash)In perhaps one of the most predictable headlines we’ve written in weeks, Elon Musk has offered to buy all of Twitter. The billionaire tech mogul reached a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter last week when he purchased $2.89 billion in shares, making him the company’s largest single shareholder. Rumors quickly swirled that the massive

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