(Dialogue Magazine) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has laid out some bold, if still vague, plans for transforming Twitter into a place of “maximum fun” once he buys the social media platform for $44 billion and takes it private.
(Dialogue Magazine) - Pop star Rihanna's net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion, making her the richest woman musician in the world, but her music is not the primary source of her wealth, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
(Dialogue Magazine) -- Rapper Nasir Jones, known better as Nas, has emerged as an unlikely winner in today’s Coinbase IPO. An early investor in the company, the rapper’s stake is worth at least $40 million. The cryptocurrency exchange was valued at $99.6 billion today when trading began and reached a valuation of over $100 billion in minutes.
(Dialogue Magazine) -- Moet Hennessy is acquiring a 50% stake in rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z’s Champagne brand in an effort to up its cool factor and expand distribution.
(Dialogue Magazine) -- Uber is bringing a small number of self-driving cars to its ride-hailing service in San Francisco - a move likely to excite the city's tech-savvy population and certain to antagonize California regulators.
(Dialogue Magazine) -- Apple wants to push consumers further into a wireless world. Its tactics: Eliminate the standard headphone jack in its newest iPhones and market new "AirPods" - tiny wireless earbuds that the company claims greatly improve on standard Bluetooth technology.
(Dialogue Magazine) -- HBO is going it alone. The chief executive, Richard Plepler, announced on Wednesday that the home of Game of Thrones and Girls will be available as a web-only service next year.
(Dialogue Magazine) -- AT&T says it is buying DirecTV for $95 per share, or $49 billion, a move that gives the telecommunications company a larger base of video subscribers and increases its ability to compete against Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which agreed to a merger in February.
(Dialogue Magazine) - Apple Inc is close to paying a record $3.2 billion for Beats Electronics, two people with knowledge of the matter said, an expensive foray into music streaming and headphone gear that would mark a departure for the usually cash-conservative iPhone maker.
