The Notebook: Victoria Scholar on defensive plays, BA’s new uniforms and Elon Musk’s fall from fortune January 10, 2023 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. [...]
Apple share prices plunge, taking valuation below $2tn January 4, 2023 Apple’s shares plummeted in value by three percent yesterday, meaning the the tech giant’s valuation tanked $2tn (£1.66 trillion) for the first time since May 2022. The company’s share value dropped to a price of $130.20 per share yesterday, marking a year-low, and giving the company a valuation of $1.99 trillion (£1.65 trillion) at market [...]
A case for the defence in a trial of Elon Musk vs The Cryptoverse January 4, 2023 Nigel Green sets out the key reasons why he believes that it is now high time for crypto bulls to embrace the vision of Elon Musk.
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 [...]
EXCL – The unstoppable rise of the Chief Innovation Officer in 2023 January 2, 2023 More and more UK businesses are making innovation a priority. The conviction is growing that tech and the implementation of innovative solutions drive business growth and help firms to stay ahead of the competition. It is therefore no surprise that the chief innovation officer takes an increasingly prominent position within many businesses, and that won’t [...]
‘Works for me’: Musk dismisses Twitter troubles after thousands report issues December 29, 2022 Elon Musk looked to dismiss reports of Twitter malfunctioning today after thousands of users across the UK, US and Japan were hit by outages. Up to 15,000 users were hit by issues on the Twitter app, with some 2,500 UK-based users facing problems, Reuters reported. London-based internet monitor NetBlocks said Twitter was experiencing “international outages [...]