US companies investigate Elon Musk for his tug-of-war in the purchase of Twitter
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, has announced to Twitter employees that he finally does not plan to cut almost 75% of the social network's staff if he finally takes control of it, as reported by the Bloomberg agency on Wednesday. .
After last week the tycoon announced to the investors of the social network his plans to cut the workforce by three quarters, Musk has stated
before the company's workers
during a visit to the headquarters in San Francisco that finally such a cut It doesn't fit into their plans.
However, Twitter already expected to lay off part of its team due to economic factors, which would have generated
stress among the workers.
All in all, a downsizing would not only affect the workers, but also
the company's infrastructure and the data centers
that allow the social network to function.
For this reason, the
decision could affect the millions of users of the social network
, since they could be at risk of possible hacks and be more exposed to offensive material, according to detailed experts consulted by the aforementioned agency.
Twitter shares suspended on the NY Stock Exchange
Shares of Twitter
will be delisted on Friday
, the New York Stock Exchange website showed, as the billionaire faces a court-ordered Oct. 28 deadline to
close his $44 billion deal. on Twitter
, Reuters reports.
Musk has a date until this Friday to close the
purchase
of Twitter
if he wants to avoid going to trial for the company, after which the businessman and engineer expressed his intention to adhere to the original agreement to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share, which would imply a total of 44,000 million dollars (44,880 million euros).
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