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Make room, Jeff, Bill and Mark: the 12-digit club has a new member. Elon Musk’s fortune crossed the $100 billion mark on Friday as Tesla’s shares continued a dizzying rally that has seen the company’s market cap more than quadruple this year. The South Africa-born chief executive has now followed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder …
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Jeff Bezos is giving a whole new meaning to the title of world’s richest man. The Amazon CEO’s net worth soared to a record $200 billion on Wednesday when shares of his online shopping behemoth hit $3.403.64 on surging demand for contactless shopping. The stock recently traded at $3,406.84, up 1.8 percent, or $60.35 a …
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Elon Musk on Tuesday became the fourth-richest man on earth after a surge in Tesla shares helped him leapfrog French luxury titan Bernard Arnault. The eccentric tech tycoon — who added $7.8 billion to his net worth on Monday, thanks to a more than 9-percent jump in Tesla’s stock — is now worth $84.8 billion, …
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Shares of German biotechnology firm CureVac nearly tripled in their Nasdaq debut Friday, marking the first stock market debut of a company developing a potential vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus. The stock opened at $44 per share, up from the initial public offering price of $16 per share. CureVac, backed by Microsoft founder and …
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to a broadside from Bill Gates by tweeting “Billy G is not my lover,” and “The rumor that Bill Gates & I are lovers is completely untrue.” The late-Wednesday quip came after a Twitter user alerted him to a CNBC interview in which the 64-year-old Microsoft co-founder took issue with Musk’s …
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That’s some pay raise. Tesla CEO Elon Musk added a whopping $5 billion to his net worth on Monday thanks to Tesla’s never-ending stock rally, allowing him to finish the day as the fifth-richest person in the world with a net worth of $74.2 billion. Musk, who as recently as a few weeks ago was …
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Bill Gates is warning that the US is still “very much in the thick of things” when it comes to COVID-19. And he believes that, given that many people refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing, that we are heading for another big round of infections in the fall. “Better treatment is reducing the …
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The FBI is reportedly investigating a major Twitter hack and bitcoin scam that compromised the accounts of big business and political figures including Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Barack Obama. The bureau is looking into the hack — which was reportedly carried out with the help of a Twitter insider — to see …
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New York is launching a “full investigation” into the massive Twitter hack that targeted big names including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. The probe will be run through the state’s Department of Financial Services. “Foreign interference remains a grave threat to our democracy and New York will continue …
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Over a dozen high-profile Twitter accounts, including Joe Biden and Elon Musk, appear to have been hacked on Wednesday as part of an apparent scam that promised free bitcoins to tens of millions of users. “Feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address!,” read the a since-deleted tweet on Musk’s account, which misspelled …
Make room, Jeff, Bill and Mark: the 12-digit club has a new member. Elon Musk’s fortune crossed the $100 billion mark on Friday as Tesla’s shares continued a dizzying rally that has seen the company’s market cap more than quadruple this year. The South Africa-born chief executive has now followed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder …
