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Twitter advisors Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase approved of the deal, deeming it fair from a financial perspective. [6] Twitter's board publicly and unanimously accepted the buyout offer for $44 billion, and Twitter was to become a private company once the transaction was completed sometime in 2022.
Renaming Tweetie to Twitter for iPhone, Twitter made the client free after acquiring Atebits. Fast Company called Tweetie "one of the best (if not the best) mobile Twitter app". [13] [16] 5 April 23, 2010: Cloudhopper Mobile messaging Cloudhopper was a Seattle-based mobile messaging startup founded by Joe Lauer in 2008. [17]
On April 25, 2022, Twitter agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, one of the biggest deals to turn a company private. [11] [12] On July 8, Musk terminated the deal. [13] Twitter's shares fell, [14] leading company officials to sue Musk in Delaware's Court of Chancery on July 12. [15]
The purchase price represents a 38% premium over Twitter’s closing stock price on April 1, 2022, which was the last trading day before Musk disclosed his approximately 9% stake in Twitter ...
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could go down as the worst leveraged buyout (LBO) deal for banks since the 2008 global financial crisis in the latest worrying sign the deal is proving costly to ...
Elon Musk and Twitter Inc were sued on Friday by a Florida pension fund seeking to stop Musk from completing his $44 billion takeover of the social media company before 2025. In a proposed class ...
On July 23, 2023, Musk announced X's launch, which would replace Twitter, which started when the X.com domain (formerly associated with PayPal) began redirecting to Twitter; [3] the logo was changed from the bird to the X the next day, [37] and the platform's official main and associated accounts also began using the letter X within their handles. [38]
(Reuters) - A U.S. district court on Monday denied Elon Musk's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Twitter investors that accuses him of driving down the social media platform's stock price in ...