Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism
RIP Twitter (2007-2023) — On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bir...
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend.
Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan set up an office in Singapore and may compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV Partners for Southeast Asia investments
Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO
announced a day after co-founder Jack Ma returned to mainland China after almost a year overseas. @hwclarence @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... Paul Page / @paulpage : Alibaba...
Alibaba plans to reorganize its businesses into six independent entities and devolve operational decisions to each unit's CEO, in its biggest restructuring ever
Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
Twitter plans to shut down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1 to “focus on making TweetDeck even better”, pointing users to the web version and an upcoming Preview
Crypto exchange KuCoin raises a $150M pre-Series B led by Jump Crypto at a $10B valuation, up from $100M in November 2018, and says it has 18M+ users
KuCoin's valuation has surged to $10 billion in its first financing round in four years as the global cryptocurrency exchange looks …
Filing: Elon Musk secures $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Larry Ellison, Binance, Sequoia, a16z, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Fidelity, and others; Ellison gives $1B
Tesla chief raises $7bn from new investors for takeover of social media platform — Elon Musk has revealed that he has raised $7.14bn … Source: SEC.gov .
Filing: Elon Musk's new $7.14B in equity financing for Twitter, which includes investment from Qatar, reduces the margin loan from $12.5B to $6.25B
Elon Musk has secured about $7.1 billion of new financing commitments for his proposed $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc., the company said in a filing Thursday.
Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days
Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.
[Thread] Ex-Reddit CEO warns Elon Musk that he doesn't understand current internet culture enough to handle the challenges of large social networks like Twitter
The Ronin Network, which supports Sky Mavis' Axie Infinity game, says it was hacked, and 173,600 ETH and 25.5M USDC was stolen, worth $600M+; RON is down ~20%
It may be the largest exploit in DeFi history. — The latest crypto hack may be the largest yet.
Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels
I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.
Sequoia Capital to raise $500M to $600M for a fund focused on liquid crypto investments, along with a $900M-$950M Ecosystem Fund and $3.2B-$3.5B Expansion Fund
tokens that are already listed on crypto exchanges and those that are yet to be listed” he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now https://twitter.com/... @w...
London-based Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, raises $1B in a share sale at a $40B valuation
Globe Telecom's Mynt, which operates mobile wallet app GCash, becomes the first tech unicorn in the Philippines after raising over $300M at a $2B+ valuation
the fintech backed by Alibaba's Ant Group BUT Mynt is really a corporate play since it span out of Globe Telecom Still, progress for a country that has lagged its peers with startu...
Thailand-based Ascend Money, which operates the TrueMoney e-wallet, raises $150M Series C at a valuation of $1.5B
a massive conglomerate. CP's owner is Thailand's richest man with net worth of ~$5B So yeah not a startup
Report: China and Russia are stepping up efforts to control or influence undersea internet cable routes, raising concerns of backdoors and traffic interception
particularly in Beijing and Moscow — are stepping up their efforts to buy or influence companies responsible for laying the undersea cables that shuttle online communications betwe...
Singapore-based online gaming and e-commerce company Sea is seeking to raise about $6.28B in a secondary offering of stock and equity-linked debt
your regular reminder that going public can be an absolute game-changer in SE Asia https://twitter.com/...