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Elon Musk Agrees To Buy Twitter For Original Price

Allwork

As of yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has agreed to move forward with his $44 billion deal to buy social media app Twitter. . After the news was announced, shares of Twitter surged and rose to more than 12.7% The stock continued to climb when it resumed trading and ended the day up 22%. .

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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

Success

Twitter is an interesting case study because it played out on the public stage,” Paterson notes. Yahoo is one of the best examples of failing to acquire other exiting companies and failing to maximize on their own exit,” Smith recalls. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002.

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How Gulliver’s Travels predicted AI and our attempts to make sense of it all

Workplace Insight

It even manages to offer up a proto-LLM in the form of The Engine, a device found in the city of Lagado, impoverished by a commitment to relentless, pointless research. And it’s identified in the modern context in this Twitter* thread by the former CEO of Reddit. He contrasts them unfavourably with the thuggish Yahoos of mankind.

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Are You Being Naive -- and Just Plain Stupid -- About Your Online Reputation?

On The Job

That means in addition to ramping up your networking efforts, you need to immediately take steps to clean up your online footprint. So, I'm going to share some really good advice and comments from online reputation management folks that I couldn't fit in my column: * "Search for your name in Google, Yahoo! and MSN right away.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/10

The Small Business Blog

Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/11/10 by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 10, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. Organizations are working to help them size up.

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Four Tips for Generating Consistent Traffic

Andrea Kalli

Businesses seize up and becomes near impossible to scale, and what was once a profitable empire simply withers and dies. Much like the dying strip mall became an endemic when foot traffic stopped, once profitable online companies frequently close up shop when the traffic dries and moves elsewhere.

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The Mobility of Facebook: Social Networking on the Go

Andrea Kalli

In fact, if your mobile device’s interface and web browser are up to the task, you can do anything on Facebook Mobile that you could do on Facebook from a computer. Loading up a mobile web browser usually takes time and can be somewhat of a resource hog, especially given the limited memory available to mobile devices.

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