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Elon Musk Agrees To Buy Twitter For Original Price

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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% Twitter filed a lawsuit against him just four days later. . before being stopped due to volatility.

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

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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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Yahoo CEO on Local Content

Small Business Labs

Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. "  She is also known as a tough, demanding and skilled manager who did an impressive job as CEO at Autodesk prior to talking over Yahoo. Would they fit into Yahoo?

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Overinflated Job Title or Complete Gibberish? Can You Tell The Difference?

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Business in the Community’s report on misleading job titles led to a social media campaign asking businesses to take action and encouraging young people to share examples of the most jargon-filled job advertisements they had noticed (using the hashtag JargonFreeJobs on Twitter). The post Overinflated Job Title or Complete Gibberish?

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Twitter is a Broadcast Medium

Small Business Labs

Interesting academic study on Twitter from Yahoo Research.    The bottom line of the study is Twitter is dominated by a small number of users and much more of broadcast medium than a social network.   So what does this mean for small business?   Don't use it just because of the hype."

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

Workplace Insight

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. By compiling the words in this way, it would be possible to identify and write down all possible knowledge and art. This is the illusion of knowledge and reason.

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

On The Job

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! Google covers most of the Web, but MSN and Yahoo! This recently happened on Twitter. and MSN right away. del.icio.us.

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