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Elon Musk

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Stepping back out of the office

As we lurch from the Covid pandemic to a cost of living crisis the very nature of work remains in a state of flux. With employees and management often pulling in different directions, is it too much to ask tech to bridge the gap?
  • Jason Walsh
  • June 25, 2022
Companies

Tesla’s Irish turnover hits €43.5m as Model 3 sales continue to spike

Irish arm of Elon Musk-founded company reported a slight drop in profits as it continued to expand its operations in this country
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 10, 2022
The Last Post

Matt Cooper: Avolon boss’s €150m plan to bring the brightest and best here could pay off

It will be considered elitist by some, but Dómhnal Slattery’s proposal to attract the ‘best brainpower in the world’ to Ireland to carry out research here could bring big rewards
  • Matt Cooper
  • June 4, 2022
The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: A €16bn valuation gap is enough to give anyone the Twitter jitters

Elon Musk is now wriggling to escape a trap of his own making in his pursuit of the social media platform, but whatever the outcome, Musk owns this debacle
  • Vincent Boland
  • May 20, 2022
The Last Post

Matt Cooper: Is Denis O’Brien hoping out of sight is out of mind on the Siteserv findings?

The billionaire businessman, in the past notably litigious and visible in the media, has stayed silent as the draft findings of the Siteserv inquiry emerge
  • Matt Cooper
  • May 14, 2022
profile

Shadow dancing: Meet Marc Andreessen, the billionaire ‘shitposter’ who is central to Elon Musk’s Twitter bid

The mega-wealthy founder of Netscape is one of the so-called ‘shadow crew’ behind his friend Elon Musk’s ongoing attempt to take over the social media giant
  • Killian Woods
  • May 14, 2022
twitter

Market realities? Disgruntled Tesla investors? An emptying wallet? What exactly is behind Elon Musk’s Twitter jitters?

The billionaire’s pockets may be feeling a little lighter as he wavers on his proposed purchase
  • Timothy L O'Brien
  • May 13, 2022
twitter

Elon Musk says $44bn Twitter deal is temporarily on hold

Shares in the social media company slumped 11 per cent pre-market after Musk’s tweet, while Tesla’s gained as much as 4.9 per cent
  • Bloomberg
  • May 13, 2022
column

Willie O’Reilly: Billionaire barons abound in the media game

As Elon Musk is poised to buy Twitter for $44 billion, we should be more aware than ever of the power that the global elites have to control the mainstream media
  • Willie O'Reilly
  • May 8, 2022
twitter

Matt Cooper: Our president’s generalisations about private enterprise are not helpful

We may not agree with Elon Musk but the reality is that he and other billionaire entrepreneurs have done a great deal to accelerate innovations to combat the climate crisis
  • Matt Cooper
  • May 7, 2022

Aidan Regan: Why the takeover of the digital town hall by the richest man on the planet is a bad idea

Despite his claims, Elon Musk has no idea how to promote free speech online while maintaining the values of liberal democracy
  • Aidan Regan
  • May 1, 2022

Editorial: It will be up to governments and not Musk to regulate Twitter

The billionaire’s expected takeover of the platform may turn out well or badly, but the outrage over it is a trifle contrived
  • Business Post
  • May 1, 2022

Twitter takeover: Can we trust Elon Musk with the ‘closest thing we have to a global consciousness’?

If the tycoon sets the social media platform on an anything-goes path of free speech absolutism, he will quickly run up against stringent new European laws which were agreed last weekend
  • Aaron Roganand
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 1, 2022

Willie O’Reilly: A Musk-owned Twitter must protect more than ‘free speech’

It remains to be seen how the world’s wealthiest man will change the world’s most powerful social media platform, which he is set to buy for $44 billion
  • Willie O'Reilly
  • May 1, 2022

Comment: Elon Musk owns the town square now — might he be tempted to offer free parking to Tesla?

The human impulse towards acquisition is age-old and likely behind the billionaire’s purchase of Twitter
  • Daniel Malan
  • April 29, 2022

Motoring: BMW answers Musk with brilliant electric i4

The impressive new i4 is a fitting reaction to the Tesla chief’s recent jibes about ‘legacy automakers’
  • Shane O’Donoghue
  • April 27, 2022

Elon Musk agrees to buy Twitter for $44bn

Billionaire says he will make social media platform a bastion of free speech
  • Bloomberg
  • April 25, 2022

Elon Musk and Twitter in ‘final stretch of negotiations’

$43 billion sale of social media company ‘could be agreed today’
  • Bloomberg
  • April 25, 2022

Elon Musk meets Twitter executives as company considers deal

Social media giant now ‘more open’ to discussing billionaire’s takeover offer
  • Bloomberg
  • April 25, 2022

Matt Cooper: Megalomanic Musk plays to his fanboys with his ‘disruptive’ bid for Twitter

The Tesla and SpaceX millionaire has cited free speech concerns and ‘the future of civilisation’ as driving his Twitter ambitions.
  • Matt Cooper
  • April 17, 2022

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