Tue. 05/17 – Sigh… More Elon/Twitter Stuff

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Now Elon says he can’t move forward with the deal until he gets solid answers from Twitter about the bot issue, even though, we have the paperwork of his original offer and there were no contingencies about bot numbers, and he totally could have written that into the deal. Will Apple use E Ink on their foldable device? Coinbase is slowing hiring, while Microsoft is boosting pay. And a big test of driver assist systems says they’re still not as reliable as we all hope they are. Sponsors: LCX.com/ride Links: Elon Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44 Billion Deal to Proceed (Bloomberg) Apple ‘testing’ foldable with secondary E Ink display, says analyst (The Verge) Apple Now Letting Developers Automatically Charge for Some Subscription Price Increases (MacRumors) Coinbase Expands Features, Allowing Some App Users to Access Ethereum-Based Dapps (CoinDesk) Coinbase slows hiring to help weather market downturn (The Block) Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (GeekWire) Report spotlights vast scale of adtech's 'biggest data breach' (TechCrunch) Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests (The Register) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, May 17th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Now Elon says he can't move forward with the deal until he gets solid answers from Twitter
0:14.3	about the bot issue even though you know we have the paperwork of his original
0:19.2	offer and there were no contingencies about bot numbers and he totally could have written that into the deal.
0:26.9	Will Apple use E-ink on their foldable device?
0:29.7	Coinbase is slowing hiring, while Microsoft is boosting pay pay and a big test of driver
0:34.9	assist systems says they're still not as reliable as we all hope they are.
0:39.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Well he gave us one day of respite I guess.
0:47.0	Elon Musk says the Twitter deal, quote, cannot move forward until Twitter proves bots are less than 5% of its users
0:55.7	claiming that his original takeover offer is based on quote SEC filings
1:01.0	being accurate end end quote.
1:03.4	Quoting Bloomberg.
1:04.8	Twitter's shares fell another 3.2% in pre-market trading in New York after sliding more than 8%
1:09.6	the previous day.
1:10.7	The spread between Musk's offer price of $54.20 a share and its last trading price is
1:16.2	currently about 40 percent, suggesting investors think there is little chance the deal will
1:20.6	get done without a discount if at all.
1:24.0	Twitter said it is quote committed to completing the transaction on the agreed price and terms as promptly as practicable in a statement on Tuesday.
1:32.0	If a revised deal does get done by Musk and in a statement on Tuesday.
1:32.6	If a revised deal does get done by Musk and Twitter,
1:35.4	said Dan Ives analyst at Wedbush,
1:37.9	it will likely be at a much lower price
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