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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dequency, the world's first Web3 music synchronization licensing marketplace, today announced that it has raised $4.5 million through an investment

Elon Musk – the richest man in the world, Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder – is Time’s 2021 “Person of the Year.”

Musk’s Brother Said He Wasn’t Aware Elon Pushed SolarCity Deal Jul 15 2021, 7:00 PM July 14 2021, 9:18 PM July 15 2021, 7:00 PM (Bloomberg) -- Kimbal Musk, a Tesla Inc. board member, told a Delaware judge he didn’t know his billionaire brother Elon Musk was pushing the company to quickly acquire SolarCity in 2016 and said he didn’t give much weight to concerns about the solar-power provider’s financial problems.“I was unaware of my brother’s activities” s...

Updated: 20:23 ET, Jul 12 2021 ELON Musk told a lawyer he was a “bad human being” before saying Tesla got “free advertising” from him being “funny”.  The Tesla founder took to a witness stand on Monday, to defend his company’s 2016 acquisition of a company called SolarCity, against a lawsuit by shareholders seeking to recoup the $2.6bn the company paid for the ailing solar panel maker.  4 4 Musk told Randall Baron he was a "bad human being"Credit: Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LL...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk defends SolarCity purchase against conflict of interest allegations Isabel Hughes, Delaware News Journal Elon Musk to testify at Delaware Court Monday UP NEXT Elon Musk was quietly whisked into the New Castle County Courthouse in Delaware on Monday morning, evading a gaggle of press anxiously awaiting his arrival in connection with a lawsuit over Teslas 2016 acquisition of a solar energy generation company. What was lacking in any grand entrance, however...

To reach that, Musk testified Monday, there need to be "three fundamental pillars" in place: energy generation from solar, wind, nuclear or other non-fossil fuel sources; energy storage; and energy consumption, i.e., by electric vehicles.  "This is essential for humanity to have a good future," Musk said. "Wed (eventually) run out of oil and civilization would collapse." By 2016, the year the acquisition was finalized, Tesla already offered two of those three pillars.  Its Powerwall batt...

Undoubtedly, the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant lockdowns crippled the South African economy. For months, various sectors battled to stay alive due to various restrictions. Even now, the tourism and alcohol industry – to name a few – are still trying to bounce back from last year. But, as Mike Schussler writes below, the South African economy was in a spot of bother even prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. While he says that the country should see some bounce back, the economy is in deep troub...

Company deploys sensors over half the worlds oceans to improve weather forecasts Andrew Freedman, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail A Sofar Ocean Spotter buoy seen next to a large container ship.Sofar Ocean. Sofar Ocean, a company that makes instruments that collect vital ocean data, known as the Spotter, has now spread enough of these sensors to give them a glimpse into half of the worlds oceans, the company announced Friday. By the end of 2021, the company hopes to cover...