Elon Musk has secured more than $7 billion in equity investment from the likes of Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity and crypto company Binance to finance his acquisition of Twitter, according to a regulatory disclosure on Thursday morning. The filing shows 18 investors have agreed to pledge money to help fund Musk’s $44 billion effort to take Twitter private. Among the large investors is...
Musk Raises More than $7 Billion in Investments for Twitter Deal
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Last month, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and other influencers stirred up a public relations firestorm for Instagram, complaining to their hundreds of millions of followers about the app's recent attempts to mimic TikTok. Those efforts were just part of a broader internal effort to take on the Chinese short-form video app, though. The Information has learned that recent tests of changes to...
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