Thu. 04/21 – Ok. Funding Actually Secured?

Ok. Funding actually secured, Elon? For real this time? A look at Tesla’s good earnings and monster margins. Unions are coming for big tech, it seems. A reckoning is coming for the lightning cable, it seems. And advertising in your console games is inevitable, it seems. Sponsors: Composer.trade/ride Policygenius.com Links: Twitter Has a Poison Pill Now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) Elon Musk Says He Has Commitments for $46.5 Billion in Financing for Twitter Deal (WSJ) Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover (The Verge) Tesla record profit blows away estimates (CNN Business) Tesla reports $18.76 billion in revenue and record margins in Q1 (CNBC) Apple Store workers in Atlanta are the first to formally seek a union. (NYTimes) Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS (CNBC) PlayStation Wants Ads In Its Games, Too (IGN) MEPs vote to expand scope of common charger rules (TechCrunch) Zoom’s thumbs-up and raise-hand gesture recognition now works in its desktop apps (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices