Listed on the New York Stock Exchange for just under nine years, Twitter has posted a net loss every year, except 2018 and 2019 when it made a profit of just over $1 billion.

Elon Musk describes himself as a "free-speech absolutist," leaving rights groups fearful that Twitter will provide a forum for hate speech and disinformation under his ownership. The world's richest man has signaled that, following his $44 billion takeover, he intends to reform what he sees as over-zealous policing of tweets.

Prince Alwaleed is one of the wealthiest businessmen in the Middle East, but Elon Musk is the richest person in the world.

Buying Twitter is just the latest conquest for Musk, who has revolutionized the car industry, sent his own rocket to space and built the world's biggest fortune.

The deal, which media outlets including The Wall Street Journal reported could be announced later in the day, would put the Tesla boss in charge of the influential social media site.

Twitter is reconsidering Elon Musk's buyout proposal, with discussions between the two camps ongoing Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported, after the billionaire said Thursday he had secured the necessary funding. "Twitter is taking a fresh look at the offer and is more likely than before to seek to negotiate,"...

"Misleading advertisements on Twitter that contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited," says Casey Junod, Twitter global sustainability manager.

Online payments giant Stripe on Friday said it will start letting Twitter stars get paid in a dollar-pegged form of cryptocurrency in the latest endorsement of digital money.

The so-called "poison pill" Twitter has proposed to use against Elon Musk's potential hostile takeover is a mechanism with a proven track record that could force the outspoken entrepreneur into negotiations.

Earlier this month, Elon Musk made an unsolicited bid of $43 million for Twitter, citing better freedom of speech as a motivation.

Even for the richest person on the planet, buying Twitter was always going to be a challenge –- a highly complex financial transaction now made even trickier by a defensive "poison pill" move from the platform's board. Musk's $43 billion offer lays out the myriad potential pitfalls: possible government approvals,...

It is to ensure that he doesn’t get a controlling stake in Twitter.

Twitter's board said it would carefully review what it termed Elon Musk's ‘unsolicited, non-binding’ offer and decide on a course of action that was ‘in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders,’ after the Tesla founder made an offer of $54.2 per share of the social-media platform.

Tesla chief offered $54.20 a share, which values the social media firm at $43.4 billion, in a filing dated April 13, with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Parag Agarwal announced on Tuesday that Musk was joining the board.

He also called out users who are highly followed but rarely post.

They are concerned about his influence on the company board.

The first wave of the pandemic spanning April to the end of November 2020 witnessed 267 deaths for each 100,000 cases.

Abdel Fattah has spent the better part of the past decade behind bars, having also been arrested under former presidents Hosni Mubarak and Mohammed Morsi.

The investment is worth $2.9 billion based on Friday's share price.

"I had the great honour of serving my beloved country and dear people in this capacity throughout the years of my life," he wrote.

Telegram's founder Pavel Durov has accepted that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events."

Since Russia's invasion 10 days ago, the economic and humanitarian toll of the war has spiraled, sending more than one million people fleeing Ukraine. Officials have reported hundreds of civilians killed.

People from Ukraine have posted videos showing the success of their forces, and they have become viral.

US Senator Mark Warner wrote to Meta, Reddit, Telegram, TikTok, Twitter and other tech giants to stop Russian disinformation spreading online through their platform.

Television ratings for the Oscars have dramatically declined by 56 percent from 2020.

The account, @KhameneiSite, this week posted an animated video showing an unmanned aircraft targeting former US president Donald Trump, who ordered a drone strike in Baghdad two years ago that killed top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani.

The fine was for repeatedly failing to delete ‘illegal’ content.

Google, Lenovo, and Intel are the latest global tech companies to bow out of the January 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Extremists are abusing its new photo-sharing rule.

Twitter's first policy shift under the new CEO Parag Agrawal

Parag Agrawal named to the post as Jack Dorsey resigns.

Hong Kong listing is seen as a hedge against removal from US exchanges

Musk owned about 17 percent of Tesla's outstanding shares as of June 30, currently worth $208.37 billion. His wealth swelled with the recent surge in Tesla's stock price. By selling 10 percent of his shares, he could theoretically earn just under $21 billion. His wealth swelled with the recent surge...

The Iraqi National Intelligence Service captured Sami Jasim outside the country after a complex operation.

Twitter chief executive has endorsed digital currency

When people join a Community, they can Tweet directly to that group instead of to all their followers

Stories is expected to be removed from LinkedIn by September.

The move came as Twitter strives to be a preferred online venue for clickable stars and to boost its own income in ways that don't clutter the platform up with ads or promotions

Any minister or senior official found guilty of corruption could be relieved of their job.

Social media services have previously been closed in the country over the past year

Lebanon has been struggling with fuel shortages for a couple of months, which has led to protracted power outages.

A new test feature will allow some Twitter users mark tweets as "misleading".

Afterpay specializes in the "buy now, pay later" model that offers users staggered payments, often without extra charge.

The company caved in to demands for gender equity space on social media site Arabic verbs and adjectives have both masculine and feminine forms Caving in to demands of female users for more gender-equity space on social media, Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new version that allows Arabic language users...