Thu. 04/21 – Ok. Funding Actually Secured?

Ok. Funding actually secured, Elon? For real this time? A look at Tesla’s good earnings and monster margins. Unions are coming for big tech, it seems. A reckoning is coming for the lightning cable, it seems. And advertising in your console games is inevitable, it seems.

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Links:

• Twitter Has a Poison Pill Now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk Says He Has Commitments for $46.5 Billion in Financing for Twitter Deal (WSJ)
• Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover (The Verge)
• Tesla record profit blows away estimates (CNN Business)
• Tesla reports $18.76 billion in revenue and record margins in Q1 (CNBC)
• Apple Store workers in Atlanta are the first to formally seek a union. (NYTimes)
• Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS (CNBC)
• PlayStation Wants Ads In Its Games, Too (IGN)
• MEPs vote to expand scope of common charger rules (TechCrunch)
• Zoom’s thumbs-up and raise-hand gesture recognition now works in its desktop apps (The Verge)