Elon Musk, 49, is the public face and voice of the company. Tesla Inc. is widely expected to report its sixth consecutive quarterly profit Wednesday — and potentially its first $1-billion quarter. That follows a remarkable year when Tesla’s stock split and skyrocketed, the company joined the S&P 500 Index and it sold almost half … Read more
Seven years after Elon Musk first challenged innovators to develop a functioning hyperloop system, Richard Branson-backed Virgin Hyperloop and Hyperloop TT are in a race to bring the high-speed transportation technology into the real world. Photo illustration: George Downs Source link
Elon Musk said he’ll unveil details of the prize next week. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is donating $100 million toward a prize for the “best carbon capture technology.” Carbon capture is, in fact, a broad mix of technologies with the same aim: collecting carbon dioxide so it doesn’t escape into the atmosphere and … Read more
SoftBank’s troubles seem to be mounting as my colleague James Cook reports: The managing partner who ran financial technology bets for SoftBank’s technology fund has stepped back from making investments in a reshuffle of the company’s team. Former Deutsche Bank executive Colin Fan is set to leave SoftBank’s Vision Fund and will instead advise SoftBank … Read more
Elon Musk is setting his sights on another business, telecommunications. Elon Musk became the world’s richest person this month by upending the global auto industry and disrupting aerospace heavyweights with reusable rockets. Now he’s setting his sights on another business dominated by entrenched incumbents: telecommunications. Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has launched more than 1,000 … Read more
“If Governor & Mayor want this done, we will do it,” Elon Musk tweeted. Miami: As the world waited with baited breath for the US presidential inauguration, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had more pressing issues at hand — exchanging tweets with Miami’s mayor about building a tunnel system under the Florida city. Other mayors seemed … Read more
Its app was also removed off Apple and Google stores. However, the site re-emerged in recent days, with Parler CEO John Matze posting a message saying: “Hello world, is this thing on?” Parler’s app remained unavailable. Reuters said the internet protocol address the site used was owned by DDos-Guard, an organisation which offers protection from hackers … Read more
Earlier this month, Elon Musk confirmed his India plans for Tesla centres (File) Entrepreneur Elon Musk on Saturday wished a “Happy Birthday” to the online information service, Wikipedia, which yesterday celebrated its 20th foundation day. “So Glad You Exist,” he tweeted. Happy birthday Wikipedia! So glad you exist. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 15, 2021 … Read more
Elon Musk’s Tesla has moved a step closer to its launch in India later this year by registering a company in the country.Image Credit: Reuters As Elon Musk confirmed the news of electric car giant Tesla’s entry in India, Twitter on Thursday erupted in jokes and memes, mostly focused on the condition of Indian roads. … Read more
Musk’s claim that the Shanghai factory would be up and running with unprecedented speed proved correct. Last Feb. 10, as authorities in China ended work stoppages intended to halt the novel coronavirus, much of the country remained quiet. Transportation was still disrupted, and many workers were stuck in their home provinces. Others had been told … Read more
Elon Musk’s constellation of Starlink satellites could have dire consequences for the operations of the world’s largest radio telescope – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). SpaceX has already launched more than 900 Starlink satellites into space and continues to ramp up its orbiting network of small satellites to deliver global high-speed Internet across the world. … Read more
Tesla had planned its India entry in 2016 but the company never went ahead with its operations New Delhi: US electric car giant Tesla is reportedly making its entry in India and is in touch with as many as five state governments to set up operations in the country. The company, a regulatory filing showed, … Read more
“Use Signal,” Elon Musk wrote on Twitter apparently referring to the encrypted messaging service. A two-word app recommendation from Elon Musk has turned into a massive rally in the shares of a tiny medical device company in another case of mistaken identity. “Use Signal,” the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer wrote on Twitter on Jan. … Read more
The story that billionaire Elon Musk has made a R1-million donation to Pretoria Boys High School, but asked never to be contacted again, has been widely circulated over the last few years. After Musk became the world’s richest man last week, the same piece of information started doing the rounds on social media again. It … Read more
Grimes reveals that she’s battling COVID-19 and admits she is ‘weirdly enjoying the DayQuil fever dream’ By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 19:26 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 09:32 GMT, 10 January 2021 Grimes has revealed that she has contracted the novel coronavirus. The 32-year-old singer made the announcement nonchalantly in her Instagram Stories, … Read more
Signal saw a significant jump in new sign-ups after Elon Musk’s tweet advising his followers to use the privacy-focused app, in the wake of concerns about WhatsApp’s new privacy policy where it says it would share user data with Facebook. If you’re using either Signal or Telegram you know that dozens of your contacts have … Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world with a net worth of over $195 billion, slightly higher than Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on $185 billion. Musk’s rise to the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was the fastest in history, with Musk having started 2020 with a net … Read more
WhatsApp is giving its 400 million users in India a deadline of February 8 to accept the new policy New Delhi: WhatsApp’s new privacy policy has kicked up a storm. There have been major concerns about the instant messaging app’s data collection which is huge as compared to other apps. WhatsApp will now share more … Read more
Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, reports CNBC. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO surpasses Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person in the world since 2017. Musk now has a net worth of over $185 billion, compared to the $184 billion of Bezos. His rise to … Read more
Elon Musk has overtaken Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person (AFP) Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, is now the richest person in the world – a feat he himself finds “strange”. Elon Musk surpassed Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 wealthiest people, … Read more
Forget ‘who wants to be a millionaire?’ If you want to be up among the richest people in the world, it’s going to take billions. Just ask Elon Musk, who yesterday leapfrogged Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the richest man on the planet. On Wednesday, the 49-year-old South Africa-born engineer’s fortune stood at $181 … Read more