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here's your daily crunch. The government in Nigeria may be lifting its ban on

Twitter that's if it meets certain conditions. Some have already been agreed to, but others, like Twitter

building an office in the country, appear less certain.

We'll see, but the Nigerian beef with Twitter matters, as we have seen other nation states quash the service to

varying degrees. China does so fully for example while India has leaned into

the intimidation side of influence. In other news, Electric Vehicle startup

Rivian, which started deliveries of its R1T pickup truck in September,

released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States.

The S1 document, which was filed Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,

doesn't include terms for its offering.

And talk about a roller coaster ride.

Zoom, the video conferencing company that became everyone's primary means of communication around work during the pandemic,

will no longer be acquiring 5-9, a maker of cloud-based customer service software.

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