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  Elon Musk’s Twitter was fined $3,50,000 for failing to immediately cooperate with a Justice Department search warrant for documents connected to former United States’ President Donald Trump's account. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found Twitter juggernaut in civil contempt. The district court had also granted a search warrant in a criminal case, and Twitter was ordered to give material pertaining to Donald Trump's Twitter account. The court filing said, “Although Twitter ultimately complied with the warrant, the company did not fully produce the requested information until three days after a court-ordered deadline.” Subsequently, the district court imposed a $350,000 sanction for the delay in providing important documents.  According to reports, Twitter said that the non-disclosure order violated its First Amendment rights, and the court should have halted the execution of the warrant until the issues raised by the social media company were handled. In its appe...

 The Elon Musk-led Twitter has hit a few stumbling blocks in its transition to an "everything app" called X. The iconic blue bird was unceremoniously retired this week as the billionaire tycoon announced a change of logo and plans for a broader transformation into ‘X.com’. However, the Republic of Indonesia prohibited access to the new website, claiming anti-pornography legislation. Under its strict anti-pornography laws, the Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, with a population of 270 million blocked access to X.com, previously Twitter, on Tuesday. According to officials, the domain has a history of being associated with gambling and obscenity. According to a Telegraph report quoting Ministry of Communication officials of Indonesia, they were awaiting approval from Elon Musk 's company on the domain. For the past six years, the website has been left blank except for a single letter x. According to analysts and marketing agencies, Musk's new plan cost anywhere from $4...

 The war of words between Twitter owner Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took place on Sunday. Elon Musk mocked Mark Zuckerberg in a tweet, writing, "Zuck is a cuck." This comes only days after Mark Zuckerberg launched the Threads app, a competitor to Elon Musk's Twitter. Musk's latest remark was made in response to a screenshot of a Threads post by fast food chain Wendy. Wendy made fun of Musk and tagged Zuckerberg, saying, "hey @zuck, you should go to space just to really irritate him lol." Notably, Elon Musk's company SpaceX is involved in space exploration and aims to reach Mars in the near future, thus the fast food company Wendy's made a snide remark. Meta’s Chief replied to Wendy's post on Threads with a laughing emoji. Recently, Elon Musk threatened to sue the Meta platforms and even sent a message to Zuckerberg via his Twitter lawyer, Alex Spiro. According to the letter, Zuckerberg's business engaged in "systematic, will...

 Tech billionaire and Twitter owner Elon Musk took a jibe at the photo-sharing app Instagram, the team behind Meta's next text-based platform, Threads.  Just hours after the launch of Twitter's greatest opponent, Threads, Elon Musk responded. In response to a tweet that showed a 2018 email addressed to former Twitter owner Juleanna Glover regarding Elon Musk deleting the Instagram app, he stated his displeasure with the app. Musk said that it is better to face strangers on his own platform while referring to mental health specialists commonly describing Instagram as a site that encourages social media users to only submit 'flawless photographs' that create a false sense of reality. Musk wrote on Twitter, “It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.” Mark Zuckerberg , the CEO of Meta Platforms, also returned to Twitter after years. He posted a picture of the famous Spiderman meme in a...

According to a corporate tweet, Etihad Rail's freight services are now "completely functioning." "Etihad Rail's freight services are now fully operational and provide complete end-to-end transportation solutions to meet all of your business demands. We can efficiently transport any type of cargo across the UAE with our state-of-the-art fleet, according to the tweet, which added, "Secure your spot immediately and let's move together!" It was announced in March that Etihad Rail has successfully finished the 900 km-long UAE National Rail Network, which connects all seven emirates to a main railway. At that moment, Etihad Rail also posted a new video on Twitter announcing the completion of the long-awaited train network in the UAE. The network will be an essential part of the UAE 's logistics and transportation infrastructure and connect four ports as well as logistics hubs. It was announced in March that Etihad Rail has successfully finished the 9...

  Kanye West has called the world's richest person, Elon Musk, 'half-Chinese' after his account was suspended from Twitter for allegedly breaching rules. Musk said that Kanye West had "violated our rule against incitement to violence." Subsequently, Kanye West shared a post on Monday on his Instagram account. He took a dig at Musk, calling him "half-Chinese.” He wrote on Instagram, "Am I the only one who thinks Elon Musk could be half Chinese? Have you ever seen his (Musk) picture as a child?" Kanye has millions of followers on Instagram.  In the post, he referred to himself as the future president of the United States. He said, "On Jay Zs birthday Future president of the United States Ye uses Mark Zuckerberg’s platform to incite a mass investigation of Elon Musk 's childhood photos." Kanye also referred to Musk as Obama. Subsequently, Musk reacted to his post. He wrote on Twitter, "I take that as a compliment." Later on, Kan...

 San Francisco: As more advertisers pause spending on Twitter, Elon Musk has shared his digital payments plans with them where users will be able to send money to others like China's WeChat. In a live-streamed meeting with advertisers, Musk detailed his vision for Twitter to enter the digital payments market, reports TechCrunch. According to him, users would be able to send money, "extract their funds to authenticated bank accounts and, later, perhaps, be offered a high-yield money market account to encourage them to move their cash to Twitter". Twitter last week filed registration paperwork with the US authorities to allow it to process payments on the platform. In his online meeting with advertisers late on Wednesday, Musk told them how paid verification via the Blue subscription service and support for a creator ecosystem could herald payments on Twitter. Twitter Blue subscribers have to sign up using a credit or debit card and have their payments processed through th...

 American TV host, actor, and comedian Whoopi Goldberg has announced her exit from Twitter. She announced her exit on her talk show The View. She is another celebrity to leave Twitter after Elon Musk purchased the micro-blogging site. Whoopi Goldberg reportedly said, “It’s been a little over a week since Elon Musk took over Twitter and this place is a mess. So I’m gonna get out. If it settles down enough and I feel more comfortable maybe I’ll come back. But as of now, I’m done with Twitter.” During the talk show, she also highlighted how Twitter had shut down Kathy Griffin‘s account for pretending to be Elon Musk . On Sunday, the world’s richest man said that Twitter would ban accounts that impersonate others. He also said that any name change could lead to a temporary loss of a verified check mark. Earlier, American supermodel Gigi Hadid also left Twitter. She announced her exit from Twitter on Instagram. She criticized Musk on Instagram. She reportedly wrote, “For a long time, b...

 The world’s richest person, Elon Musk , is thinking about creating an "everything app”. However, what does that mean? The question arose on Tuesday after Musk reversed course on his earlier decision not to buy the social media giant, Twitter.  Tesla's CEO is now willing to proceed with his original plan to buy Twitter for $44 billion. He wrote on Twitter, "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app." Musk didn’t provide many details about the app beyond a one-line tweet. Since then, people have started thinking about the app.  The concept of an everything app often referred to as a "super app" is very popular in Asian countries, especially China. ‘Everything app’ has been described as the Swiss army knife of mobile apps by tech companies. The ‘Everything app’ aims to offer a wide range of services for users like messaging, video chat, social networking, peer-to-peer payments, and e-commerce shopping. Does Elon Musk want to create an ...

  Billionaire Elon musk on his Twitter account posted a sarcastic meme of The Rock, also known as Dwayne Douglas Johnson, holding a rock captioned, "Take a moment to love yourself.” Subsequently, netizens bombarded his comment section and asked if the world’s richest man loves himself or not. Musk is always in the limelight for various reasons. He always shows his funny side on Twitter. He is a billionaire businessman and investor from the United States. He is the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes' real-time billionaires' list, Musk has an estimated net worth of around US$262 billion.  Recently, he has been in the limelight because of the recent Twitter-Elon deal case. Last week, a judge in the Delaware court denied Musk’s attempt to push back the October trial over his abortive Twitter deal. Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of Delaware’s Court of Chancery said, “I am convinced th...