Twitter and Elon Musk: The deal goes sour
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As Twitter launches legal action to compel Elon Musk to complete a takeover he says he now wants to stop, Silicon Valley tech reporter James Clayton and New York business correspondent, Michelle Fleury join us to take stock of how what was meant to be the biggest deal in tech has turned into the industry's biggest row instead. Tech Tent also speaks to Carl Pei as he launches the Nothing One and attempts to shake up the smartphone market. China analyst Kerry Allen tells us about screen time for Chinese children being strictly limited over the summer holidays - and why Heardle fans are unhappy about it being bought by Spotify.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
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| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to TechTent with me, Zoe Kleinman, where we're focusing on the Elon Musk Twitter deal going very, very sour. |
| 0:39.2 | But that's not all we have laid out on the virtual canvas for you this week. I've also got |
| 0:44.1 | my hands on the hottest new property in the mobile phone industry, the nothing won, and I met |
| 0:49.0 | the man who created it. As the summer holidays loom in China, we hear how children there will have to find something |
| 0:55.1 | other than video games to fill their time with, and why the sale of hurdle to Spotify is striking |
| 1:01.1 | a bum note with some of its fans. But first, it was meant to be the tech deal of the year. |
| 1:09.3 | Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter |
| 1:10.8 | is now turning into one of the bitterest corporate rouse of 2022. |
| 1:16.2 | Having repeatedly raised concerns about his $44 billion takeover, |
| 1:21.0 | on Twitter, of course, |
| 1:22.3 | at the end of last week, Musk dramatically pulled the plug, |
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