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Elon Musk's flip-flop, who again offers to buy Twitter

Elon Musk has again changed his mind: the boss of Tesla finally offered Twitter to buy the social network at the price agreed in April, two weeks before the trial scheduled between the two parties on this eventful acquisition. The businessman "intends to conclude the transaction envisaged by the takeover agreement of April 25, 2022", according to the terms provided, wrote his lawyers in a letter addressed to the Californian group on Monday, and filed Tuesday with the American stock market policeman , the SEC. The only condition expressed in the letter: the end of the legal proceedings in progress before the specialized court of Delaware. The title of Twitter took more than 22% at the close of the New York Stock Exchange, after having been suspended all afternoon "pending information", after an article by the Bloomberg agency which revealed this rebound. Elon Musk had offered in the spring to acquire the platform for 54.20 dollars per share, thus valuing it at 44 bil...

​​​​​​​Hot Sale 2022: The period of online sales in Mexico

Hot Sale is the country's largest online sales campaign and for the ninth edition, the event will run for nine days. Several online sales and service companies will participate in the initiative by offering their customers exclusive discounts and promotions on their products and/or services. This campaign was created in 2014 by AMVO with the aim of boosting online commerce. Since its first edition, more than 1,600 companies have participated, registering more than 65 trillion pesos in sales and adding more than 18 million new online buyers. According to AMVO, consumers are now more familiar with the Hot Sale: 8 out of 10 identify it. In fact, awareness of the online discount campaign has increased fivefold from 2017 to present . https://letterboxd.com/zipkamx/ https://about.me/zipkamx https://works.bepress.com/zipkamx/ https://www.tripadvisor.in/Profile/zipkamx http://kuby.pl/promuj-swe-miasto-wies-prodvinte-svoj-gorod-derevnju-promociona-tu-ciudad-el-pueblo-promote-your-city-villa...

United States: unions organize at Amazon

It's a small revolution: in New York, in the United States, the employees of a second Amazon warehouse vote this week for the creation of a union. Across the country, more and more employees are turning to unionization to defend their rights. The polling station is set up under a large tent in the parking lot of the LDJ5 warehouse in the windy industrial area of ​​Staten Island in New York. The 1,800 employees of the Amazon site  will parade there until Friday, April 29 to say whether or not they agree to join the Amazon Labor Union  (ALU).  This union, the first ever created within the online sales giant in the United States, was born only a few weeks ago: it was just across the street, in another Amazon warehouse. With the same procedure: the vote had been validated by the agency responsible for labor law, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which must first authorize it to verify that at least 30% of the site's employees are favorable. Wages and working conditio...

War in Ukraine: how the digital giants oppose Russia

Ukraine begins its 25th day of war on Sunday March 20. In addition to sanctions from the international community, it is also the big technology companies that are getting involved.  Facebook, Microsoft, Google or even Instagram: the big technology companies are entering the war by positioning themselves against Moscow. Elon Musk , owner of Starlink , a satellite giant, was even directly challenged on Twitter by the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, who asked him to provide an internet connection to the country via its satellites. The American billionaire responded favorably to him, terminals were sent to the country. Part of the battle with Moscow is now being played out on the Internet. Cogent , American firm and principal        access provider in Russia, has chosen to cut the Internet for fear that the network will be used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks . A lever of action in the evolution of war The social network Facebook now offers its subscribers in U...

Average price of gas rises, but maximums are respected: Profeco

 The average price for stationary tanks is 13.32 pesos per liter, while for gas cylinders the average price is 24.60 per kilo. The Federal Consumer Prosecutor's Office ( Profeco ) assured that the average price of LP gas in Mexico has been increasing; however, the vendors of this fuel have respected the maximum prices that the federal government is implementing. In the morning conference of President  Andrés Manuel López Obrador , the head of Profeco, Ricardo Sheffield Padill a, detailed that the average price for stationary tanks is 13.32 pesos per liter, while for gas cylinders the average price in the country it is 24.60 per kilo. “Prices continue to remain below the average, the average has been increasing every week, as oil has been increasing, and all oil derivatives, but fortunately these maximum prices have been respected, there were many places that sold above these averages, with stratospheric profits, and we find stations that sell below the maximum prices ”, he ass...