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Cisco Stock Roars Back On AI Firepower, Saudi Pact — Bullish Breakout Faces Q3 Earnings Test
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 1:16pm | 680Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) will report its third-quarter earnings Wednesday after the market close, with Wall Street expecting earnings per share of 92 cets and revenue of $14.08 billion. The stock has climbed 25.4% over the past year, despite being down 3.87% year-to-date and slipping 6.92%...
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Mark Zuckerberg Celebrates Threads Milestone, Says X Competitor Is 'Next Major Social App'
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 11:04am | 414In the world of social media apps, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) dominates with Facebook and Instagram, which have about three billion users daily. The company's newest platform, Threads, is also gaining subscribers fast. What Happened: Threads, a potential rival to platforms like X and Bluesky, had...
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Elon Musk's Critics On X See Sudden Drop In Visibility, Raising Questions About Platform's Free Speech Commitments
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 5:20am | 436Several high-profile X users found that their visibility on the platform had plummeted after they publicly sparred with owner Elon Musk, raising new questions about how power is exercised on the platform once known for its pro-free speech stance. What Happened: Many far-right influencers reported a...
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Sam Altman's OpenAI Explores Creating Social Media Competitor To Elon Musk's X
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 3:39pm | 398OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X, have feuded for several years after Musk left OpenAI’s board in 2018, the company he co-founded. Several lawsuits later, the San Francisco-based AI start-up is exploring creating a social media competitor to Musk’s X....
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Meta In Landmark Trial As FTC Seeks To Decouple WhatsApp, Instagram
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 10:27pm | 765On Monday, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Washington, D.C., courtroom. What Happened: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Meta opened arguments in a trial that could lead to the forced divestiture of Instagram and WhatsApp, reported CBS News. "There's...
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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Join Bluesky, Posts Take Aim At Elon Musk's Efforts In Wisconsin: Here Are The Top 10 Most Followed Accounts
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 7:36pm | 804Two prominent political figures have joined decentralized social media platform Bluesky, moves that coincided with helping to promote the Wisconsin Supreme Court election that has been of interest to Elon Musk. What Happened: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama...
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Major Brands Resume Advertising On Musk's X Amid Legal Pressure
Sunday, March 30, 2025 - 3:15pm | 408Major brands are making a cautious return to advertising on Elon Musk‘s social media platform X. What Happened: According to multiple marketing executives, companies are feeling the pressure to spend nominal amounts on advertising on X. This move comes in the wake of Musk’s influential...
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Elon Musk Acquires His Own Social Media Platform X Through xAI In $33 Billion Deal, Says Combined Entity Now Worth $113 Billion (CORRECTED)
Friday, March 28, 2025 - 10:57pm | 647Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the accurate combined valuation of X and xAI. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has acquired his social media company X, formerly Twitter, in an all-stock deal valued at $33 billion. What Happened: On Friday, Musk...
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Elon Musk Paid High Price For Twitter But After Years Of Declining Value, X Is Once Again Worth $44 Billion
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 3:17pm | 1088Billionaire Elon Musk paid $44 billion to acquire social media platform Twitter, which he later rebranded to X. The valuation of the platform has declined sharply since the 2022 purchase with Fidelity marking the value down by 72% as of December. A new report shows a secondary deal for the company...
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Elon Musk's X Hit With $1.42 Million Fine From Brazil Judge He Once Labeled 'Dictator'
Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 9:57pm | 384On Thursday, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, was fined 8.1 million reais ($1.42 million) by Brazil’s Supreme Court for not complying with judicial orders. What Happened: The fine was imposed by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after X failed to remove a profile accused of...
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Financial Crime Weekly: Man Pleads Guilty To Hacking SEC Social Media Account, Two Plead Guilty In $577 Million Crypto Fraud Scheme
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 1:00pm | 443Man Pleads Guilty To Hacking SEC Social Media Account The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced that Eric Council pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft in a federal court in Washington, D.C.. Council is accused of hacking the SEC's X account and posting a fake...
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Jack Dorsey Says Bluesky's Rapid Expansion Fueled by X Exodus: 'Not a Great Way To Build a Product'
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 4:45pm | 480Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, now known as X, has shed light on the accelerated growth of Bluesky, attributing it to a mass exodus of users from X. What Happened: In a recent podcast, Dorsey voiced his belief that users are “running away from X, rather than running to...
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Apple Is Back With Ads On X After Halting Platform Spending In 2023 Over Elon Musk's Posts
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 1:16pm | 637Technology giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) has returned to running advertisements on social media platform X, a move that comes 15 months after the company paused spending on the platform. What Happened: Apple was one of several companies that paused or halted spending on X after Elon Musk, owner of...
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Palantir Adds Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok To AIP
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 12:17pm | 495Palantir Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) announced on Thursday that it has added xAI's large language model Grok to its AIP platform. The Details: Grok, developed by Elon Musk's AI start-up xAI, is now available in Palantir's AIP in addition to other LLMs including Meta's Llama, Gemini, GPT-...
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Elon Musk's Lenders Cash In $5.5 Billion Thanks To Investor Demand For X Loans: Report
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 9:19pm | 523Banks have successfully sold $5.5 billion in loans tied to X Corp., the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, amid surging investor demand. What Happened: The sale, which was initially planned at $3 billion, was expanded due to heightened interest, with investors including Pimco and Citadel...