Rideshare for satellites: Exolaunch inks multi-million-dollar deal with SpaceX November 16, 2021 Launch services and in-space logistics firm Exolaunch has inked a multi-million-dollar deal with tech-billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a satellite rideshare service. The deal, which covers two years worth of transporter missions, will see Exolaunch’s customer satellites ferried into space by SpaceX rockets. Over 95 per cent of Exolaunch’s 3,000kg capacity on the SpaceX missions [...]
Billionaire Richard Branson sells off another $300m stake in Virgin Galactic November 16, 2021 British billionaire Richard Branson has sold off a further $300m worth of stock in his space venture Virgin Galactic, taking the total offloaded this year to some $600m. The unlocked capital is reportedly set to be pumped into Branson’s travel and leisure businesses, after emergency pandemic restrictions bruised profits. Shares sank more than four per [...]
JP Morgan sues Tesla for $162m warrant dispute over Elon Musk tweet November 16, 2021 JP Morgan has sued Tesla for $162m and accused the EV carmaker of “flagrantly” breaching a contract related to stock warrants, after CEO Elon Musk threatened to take the company private in a 2018 tweet. According to the filing in New York on Monday, Tesla sold warrants to the US investment bank that would pay [...]
Four Silicon Valley CAs on why its status as the world’s tech capital will remain unchallenged November 16, 2021 The pandemic saw many tech companies thrive as the world went more virtual. Despite talk of a drift away from Silicon Valley, local CAs tell Ryan Herman why its status as the world’s tech capital will remain unchallenged. This article first appeared in ICAS’s CA magazine. For Ninos Sarkis CA, there was only one place [...]
Tesla’s market value tumbles below $1tn after Musk’s offloading November 15, 2021 Tesla’s market value has fallen below $1tn for the second time in four sessions, after investors reacted to chief executive Elon Musk’s offloading $6.9bn worth of shares. Following a $187bn loss in market value over the last week, the company dropped below $995.75, losing its $1tn status. Tesla’s shares bottomed to $983.25 this morning – [...]
Crypto market briefly surpassed $3 trillion mark after Bitcoin and Ethereum highs November 15, 2021 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin hit a new all-time high last week, close to $69,000 but failed to breach the $70,000 barrier.
How have crypto market moves affected consumer behaviour online? November 14, 2021 Ed Lavery explains how crypto market moves have affected consumer behaviour online.
Stop him now: Tesla shares go down as CEO offloads another $700m November 12, 2021 Tesla’s shares have gone down from $1,069 in premarket trading to a $1,047.50 opening price, after chief executive Elon Musk offloaded a further $700m worth of stocks. Early in the week, Musk had sold $5bn of his shares as a result of a poll held last week where the extravagant billionaire asked his 63.4 million [...]
Tesla shares go up after Musk’s Twitter-induced $5bn offload November 11, 2021 Tesla shares have gone up as chief executive Elon Musk sold $5bn of his stocks following a Twitter poll. The car maker’s shares have increased by 3.3 per cent to $1,103.40, recovering from a slump suffered earlier this week, when they closed 5 per cent lower on Monday compared to the previous Friday. Market shares [...]
If billionaires can decide to pay tax with a Twitter poll, something is badly wrong November 10, 2021 There’s something darkly amusing about one of the richest men in the world using Twitter to poll his 60 million followers about whether he should pay tax. It wasn’t just the flippant way Tesla’s Elon Musk (@edgeLorde) asked his followers to vote on whether he should sell $21bn of stock and in doing so pay [...]