The Notebook: Victoria Scholar on defensive plays, BA’s new uniforms and Elon Musk’s fall from fortune January 10, 2023 | City Talk The Notebook is a new feature for 2023, allowing the City’s biggest names to get a few thoughts off their chest. Today it’s the turn of Victoria Scholar, Head of Investment at interactive investor It has been widely reported that the UK is on the brink of recession while a third of the global economy [...]
Twitter users horrified as 200m leaked email addresses sold on dark web, but who is being blamed for the breach? January 6, 2023 A major security breach at online micro-blogging site Twitter has been blamed on owner Elon Musk’s mass firing of staff. Over 200 million Twitter users woke up to find their email and log-in details had been posted online. According to several reports, the data was stolen over a year ago but has only just been [...]
Musk lifts Twitter ban on political ads but may need to do more to lure advertisers back to the social media site January 5, 2023 Twitter is to lift its ban on political ads after losing nearly a million users since it was bought by Elon Musk in October last year. Musk’s controversial policy of reinstating controversial accounts including that of former US President Donald Trump, led to the reported loss of nearly 50 per cent of Twitter’s top advertisers. [...]
Musk miss: Tesla’s latest update leaves investors with yet more questions January 3, 2023 Tesla has missed analyst estimates as it delivered only 405,000 cars in the fourth quarter of 2022 – significantly fewer than Tesla-watchers were expecting. Wall Street had hoped for the number to be above 430,000. The miss is the latest cloud hanging over the firm’s controversial founder Elon Musk, with the firm’s 40 per cent [...]
What Elon Musk did next: Tech entrepreneur promises 2023 won’t be ‘boring’ January 2, 2023 Elon Musk tweeted that 2023 would not be boring. He followed this up by hinting at a release of the “Fauci Files” later this week. Musk has been critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who stepped down as the White House chief medical advisor at the end of 2022. In December, he had made a tweet [...]
Meta to discuss bringing back Trump January 2, 2023 Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company is discussing whether Donald Trump should be allowed back on the platforms. In January 2021, Meta (then known as Facebook Inc) had suspended Donald Trump’s social media accounts for two years. Five people, including a police officer died, in the riot. Mr Trump posted a video on Facebook and [...]
Ex Russian leader: In 2023, UK to rejoin EU, Musk will be US president and France to fight Germany December 27, 2022 Britain is going to rejoin the EU and it will collapse, while France will go to war with Germany and Elon Musk will be the US President, according to former Russia PM and President. The ex Kremlin leader made a series of bold predictions on Twitter which also included Northern Ireland joining the Republic, and [...]
Elon Musk’s year in Tweets: Ukraine, buying Twitter, Trump, Bitcoin and blue ticks December 21, 2022 Elon Musk’s time as Twitter CEO has been controversial. Even before his purchase of the social media platform, the business magnate and investor was an avid Twitter user. After a turbulent year online – and off – we have done the painstaking task of trawling through the Tesla billionaire’s feed, for high (and low) points [...]
Elon Musk vows to step down as Twitter CEO if someone ‘foolish enough’ accepts role December 21, 2022 Elon Musk has vowed to officially step down as the CEO of Twitter, once he finds someone “foolish enough” to accept the top role. The eccentric billionaire, who bought Twitter for $44bn (£36bn) in a protracted deal which was finalised in October, has helmed the social media giant after his controversial firing spree. But a [...]
Tesla stock swings as Musk misbehaves December 20, 2022 Stock prices for Tesla have been unstable as CEO Elon Musk continues his streak of chaos on Twitter. Investors in Tesla have been critical of Musk’s new role in Twitter. His policies on the social media platform will backfire on the car brand, they claim. ““Customers don’t want their cars to be controversial. They want [...]