Elon Musk Secures $46.5 Billion in Financing for Potential Twitter Takeover

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorUPDATED: Elon Musk this week reaped $8.4 billion in a series of stock sales of Tesla, the electric car company he heads, evidently as part of raising money for his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.Musk, , the world’s richest individual, sold more than 4.4 million shares of Tesla on April 26 and 27 at various prices of about $870-$1,000 per share, according to SEC insider transaction filings Thursday. Additional disclosures Friday showed that he sold another 5.4 million Telsa shares on April 28.

More of Amber Heard’s emails to Johnny Depp’s former agent have been revisited in his defamation trial — and it’s once again clear that she had Johnny on the brain after her breakup from Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has responded to his fans after they begged him to buy McDonald's to fix all of the ice cream machines.The billionaire tech guru took to his account to give his reply to the request on Thursday (April 29) just days after Twitter accepted his offer to buy the social media platform for $43billion (£34billion).Clearly hoping that he would continue his big brand shopping spree, one user had since mocked up a fake tweet showing Elon Musk saying that he would now be making an offer for the fast food giant in order to mend the notoriously unreliable McFlurry machines.Sharing the photo himself, Musk — who is the world's richest man — gave a short and sweet retort, writing simply: "Listen, I can’t do miracles ok".The quip went down a storm on the social media site, with the official McDonald's Germany account commenting back: "My bad, but I thought you were the guy going to Mars."Another joked that he would find it an even more difficult task than his famous SpaceX missions, writing: "Fixing a McDonald's Ice-cream machine is harder than landing rockets".Someone else gave him yet another suggestion and penned: "OK, but can you buy Lucasfilm and fix Star Wars?"For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.Earlier the same day, Musk joked that he wanted to buy Coca-Cola to 'put the cocaine' back in the iconic fizzy drink.In 1885, when Coca-Cola was originally devised, cocaine was a fairly common ingredient in over-the-counter medicines.The Coca-Cola corporation is conservatively valued at a whopping $284bn (£226bn), with Musk’s current net worth believed to be in the region of $253bn (£201bn).McDonald's, meanwhile, has a value of about

Azealia Banks is back on Twitter for the first time since 2020, when her account was suspended — not for the first time — for a series of transphobic tweets. Her return comes following Monday's news that Elon Musk had reached a deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion.

WhatsApp seems to be down due to a mystery outage, after thousands of users complained that the app is not working.At around 7:10pm on Thursday, April 28, nearly 15,000 users had reported that WhatsApp was on the blink. People complained that they had issues sending messages on the app, while others struggled with server connection. It's not immediately clear what caused the issue but people have flooded to Twitter to pose the question.People from all over the UK also informed Downdetector of their issue.

Elon Musk is thought to have donated half a million dollars to the American Civil Liberties Union in Amber Heard's name. On Wednesday, amid Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial against Heard, Terence Dougherty, the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of the ACLU, testified about what donations the organization has received from and on behalf of the former couple.

We’ve finally gotten to the bottom of Amber Heard’s now-infamous ACLU donation mystery — and it doesn’t look good for her!

Elon Musk has been making headlines after buying Twitter for a modest $44 billion cash on Monday.

While testifying about Amber Heard and Johnny Depp‘s relationship, Christian Carino recalled his former client confiding in him about her ex-husband amid her split from Elon Musk.

The general counsel of the ACLU testified that the foundation believed that billionaire Elon Musk was behind a $500,000 payment to help the actress fulfill a $3.5 million donation pledge to the organization.

Kimberly Wyatt was left starstruck after she received a tweet from a fake account under the pseudonym of billionaire Elon Musk saying he was "buying [the] Pussycat Dolls".Over the last two weeks the eccentric billionaire has been in the headlines after he agreed to purchase the popular social media app Twitter for £34billion.Since the 50-year-old confirmed the deal, the SpaceX mogul taken to the popular social networking site to share his ambitions for other ideas he has in the future.As he shared the news with his 87.8million followers on Twitter, fans rushed to poke fun at the entrepreneur on social media, and it's fair to say Kimberly Wyatt is excited about his potential involvement.A fake Twitter account writing under the pseudonym of Elon, posted: “Next I'm buying Pussycat Dolls to put the girls back on tour.”After sharing the hilarious post online, word soon spread to the Dancing on Ice finalist herself as she screenshotted the post and shared it with her loyal legion of fans on her Instagram Story.Still slightly surprised that the billionaire was possibly a secret fan of the girl band, she penned: “Wait....Is this for real?? [three cry laughing emojis].

Manchester United fans have begged Elon Musk to buy their club after the billionaire finally closed in on eye-watering £34.5billion Twitter takeover deal. Musk saw his initial bid rebuffed by the firm but made progress this week - and he is now the talk of the town.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter, which this week accepted a deal to go private in a $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, reported income a touch lighter than Wall Street predicated in the first quarter of 2022. But the social network blew away forecasts on earnings and user growth.Q1 revenue was $1.20 billion, up 16% year-over-year, reflecting “headwinds associated with the war in Ukraine,” according to Twitter.

Elon Musk, 50, has come under strong criticism since it was announced he would purchase Twitter for $44 billion (£34.5 billion).Since the news broke, many social media users have decided to leave the site, with Elon taking to Twitter today to slam his critics.In view of his 87.2 million followers, the Tesla owner made sure to leave a laugh among his followers when he joked about his next business plan.Elon joked: "Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in."Many social media users rushed to comment on Elon's proposed future business plans.Iihtishamm said: "Buy TikTok and delete it."Makhosa78668769 added: "The world has real issues,and this is what you choose to do with money."Fallinlovia commented: "Come on, how can you not love this guy?"Many social media users have decided to leave Twitter after the news broke that Elon had purchased the site, including presenter Jameela Jamil.Jameela tweeted to her one million followers on Monday: "One good thing about Elon buying Twitter is that I will *FINALLY* leave and stop being a complete menace to society on here."So, it’s win-win for you all really."She then attached a selection of snaps with her dog, Barold, in what she said was her “last tweet”.The presenter wrote: “Ah he got twitter. I would like this to be what lies here as my last tweet.

It appears Elon Musk will not be testifying in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial.  While Musk has been subpoenaed to hand over any and all communication he had with Heard about the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star, the tech boss will not be taking the stand on Heard's behalf.  Musk’s attorney, Alex Spiro, told Fox News Digital Wednesday his client will not testify.  During his testimony, Depp claimed he believed the Tesla boss was seeing his ex-wife while Depp and Heard were married.  A source with knowledge of the trial also claimed to the New York Post that James Franco, 44, will also be absent from the witness stand. Depp has also claimed Franco and Heard had an affair during Depp and Heard's marriage.  Reps for Franco did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. Elon Musk name-dropped So, how does Musk factor into the Depp-Heard trial? Court documents claim that Heard began a romantic relationship with Musk just one month after the "Aquaman" actress, 35, tied the knot with Depp, 58.

Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's $44 billion offer to purchase the social media site and take it private, CNBC reports. Talks between Musk and Twitter stalled for weeks before escalating quickly on Monday with the company agreeing to Musk's price of $54.20 per share just hours later.

Elon Musk could scupper the plans of aliens trying to make first contact with earth if he axes anonymous bots from Twitter, an expert has warned.Musk, who bought the social media platform for a mind-boggling £35bn, has spoken of "defeating spam bots" and said he would make efforts to block them from Twitter.But Nick Pope, who used to work as a Government advisor on the threat of UFOs, believes these bots are just the sort of tools that aliens could use to contact us.Nick, Britain’s top space boffin, said: "If Earth is being visited or monitored by aliens, they'll know the importance humans attach to the internet and social media."They'll already have been paying close attention to Elon Musk, because he's such a key player in the space program, so now that he's bought Twitter, they'll be looking at him even more closely."They may even think he's Earth's supreme leader - after all, Twitter has such power, it even banned a former President of the United States!"However, he claims humans should look closer to home for signs of messages from little green men.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.He added: "Might we miss out on first contact just because an email from an alien went into someone's spam folder, or because we mistakenly think someone's pulling our leg on Twitter?"In these days of big data, AI and deep learning, perhaps we should be trawling the internet and social media sites for anything that might be a real message from an alien."To get our attention, a genuine alien message would probably include the solution to a major unsolved problem in mathematics, physics or computer science - something advanced, but verifiable."It would be a sort of

SpaceX-time continuum. Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover wasn’t the first time he owned the platform.

Johnny Depp's explosive defamation trial rages on in a Virginia courtroom against his former wife Amber Heard. A series of bombshell allegations have come to light during the trial Johnny, 58, filed against Amber, 35, due to her penning a Washington Post op-ed about experiencing domestic violence. Amber did not name Johnny in the piece, but he launched a $50m libel lawsuit against the now-mum-of-one.

Tesla head’s divisive $44 billion takeover of Twitter Monday. Rogan heaped praise on the billionaire during a Tuesday episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” with guest Jessica Kirston.“Oh s–t, oh s–t, Elon Musk just bought Twitter,” gushed the former “Fear Factor” host, who has received fierce backlash over his alleged anti-vaxxer comments, among other controversies.

Phillip Schofield announced on This Morning that he has quit Twitter, saying “I want no part of it in my life”.