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Latest twist in the case of the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, which has already been dragging on for several weeks. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX said he could seek to buy the social network at a price lower than the 41 billion euros initially planned. This after declaring on Friday that he had temporarily put his plan to buy the platform on hold. This is all due to the number of fake or spam accounts on Twitter and their proportion in the user base. Elon Musk suspects that fake accounts account for at least 20% of users, while Twitter's official estimate is less than 5%. Musk's response to CEO Parag Agrawal - a simple emoji that received over 50,000 likes - says a lot about the whole story. Elon Musk wants public evidence and more transparency from Twitter about the number of fake accounts. In his words, " You can't pay the same price for something that's way worse than advertised ." Elon Musk and Twitter both say they are still keen on the acquisition, but...

Parag Agrawal, successor to Jack Dorsey at the head of Twitter, was born in India. He thus joins an impressive cohort of Indian tech CEOs, from Google to Microsoft via Adobe and IBM. A look back at an immigration success story. And six! When the announcement of the appointment of a new CEO at the head of Twitter , it was the departure of Jack Dorsey, the founder, who captured the attention of most. But not all. Irishman Patrick Collison, CEO of internet payment company Stripe, noted on Twitter that new CEO Parag Agrawal was Indian: "Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter are run by CEOs who grew up in India. It's wonderful to watch the incredible success of Indians in the tech world and a great reminder of the opportunities America offers for immigrants." The tweet drew this response from Elon Musk: "The United States benefits greatly from Indian talent!" Coincidence, this concentration of leaders? Certainly not. Engineers and executi...

Monday's global blackout, which lasted more than six hours, falls very badly for Mark Zuckerberg's firm, which is going through one of the worst crises on its reputation.  Facebook , Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, the two social networks and the two messengers of the Californian giant, emerged Tuesday from an unprecedented outage , which plunged the group into a double crisis after the revelations in broad daylight of a pitcher of alert. The technical incident is the "most important failure ever observed" by Downdetector, which records user reports. "Billions of users have been affected," assured the site. The global Facebook blackout lost nearly $ 6 billion (5 billion euros) to Mark Zuckerberg who lost a place in the ranking of the richest personalities in the world. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. We are working hard to give you back access to our apps and services and are happy to tel...