A forensic analysis of Elon Musk’s Twitter poll on Tesla stock

Elon Musk’s tweeting is causing controversy again. This time, the world’s richest person has pledged to sell 10% of his Tesla stock after… a Twitter poll. While billionaires don’t typically let tweets dictate their investment strategies, Musk has several motivations for his unusual approach. They range from slightly shady to risibly egotistical. Being a better billionaire Musk launched his poll amid rising anger about inequality. While COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on working people, American billionairesreportedly grewmore than $2 trillion richer during the pandemic....

4 min · 747 words · John White

A Free Day of Javascript on Mobile at Google HQ

These days it’s hard to ignore the groundswell of the co-mingling of the words “mobile” and “HTML5”. Mobile is where it’s at in 2011 (if it wasn’t already in 2010) and most are betting on HTML5 and the mobile web to cope with the rapidly multiplying permutations and fragmentation of OS devices, and form factors. AsFacebookCTO Brett Taylor was quoted in theWSJrecently, “Mobile is the primary focus for our platform this year,” and “HTML5 is the future platform, that’s where we’re putting a huge amount of our resources....

7 min · 1453 words · Bryan Jackson

A freelancer is making over $370,000 a year? This training can help you get started

TLDR:The Complete 2021 Superstar Freelancer Bundle is a comprehensive course package for launching and growing a thriving new freelance career working for yourself. Alex Fasulo is a freelance writer — and even in the teeth of a global pandemic andthe explosion of a hand-to-mouth U.S. gig economy, she’s absolutely thriving. Fasulo is a regular on Fiverr Pro, offering her freelancing services as a ghostwriter on a variety of projects, including earning $1,000 a pop writing 10,000-word e-books....

3 min · 486 words · Charles Johnson

A front row seat to Steve Jobs’ career, by Robert Scoble.

When the Apple PR person showed me to my seat at the iPad 2.0 launch, she reminded me that if I wanted to take photos I’d need to sit in the back section. I instead chose the front row, despite every journalistic bone in my body screaming at me to go take the photo position. Why? Because I had this sense that this was one of the last performances of Steve Jobs that I’d be able to view, and I wanted to just study him up close....

9 min · 1908 words · Matthew Alvarez

A frustrating timeline of Tesla Roadster delays

A frustrating timeline of Tesla Roadster delays It’s been pushed back to 2022 2017 Back in 2017, Tesla showed off renderings and a prototype model of the new Roadster. The stats were out of this world back then, and still are today: 0-60mph in under two seconds, 1,000 km on a single charge, and a tri-motor setup said to give it 10,000 nm of torque. As the car was revealed, and jaws were picked up from the floor,Musk announced that it would be available in 2020....

3 min · 455 words · Kara Curtis
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