{"id":5389,"date":"2022-04-15T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/twitter-adopts-poison-pill-plan-to-shield-itself-from-elon-musk-takeover\/"},"modified":"2022-04-15T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:37:00","slug":"twitter-adopts-poison-pill-plan-to-shield-itself-from-elon-musk-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/twitter-adopts-poison-pill-plan-to-shield-itself-from-elon-musk-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter adopts \u2018poison pill\u2019 plan to shield itself from Elon Musk takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media company adopted a shareholder rights plan to protect itself from the billionaire\u2019s bid<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a> on Friday adopted a limited-duration shareholder rights plan to protect itself from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk\u2019s $43bn cash takeover offer.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and the world\u2019s richest person, had offered to buy the social media platform for $43.4bn, arguing he wanted to release its \u201cextraordinary potential\u201d to support free speech and democracy across the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/15\/twitter-poison-pill-elon-musk-takeover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c46832515d2f65252349fc1e9e873fbca471c377\/0_273_8200_4920\/master\/8200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e235e4b951db445687a582fff6195c5d\" title=\"Twitter adopts \u2018poison pill\u2019 plan to shield itself from Elon Musk takeover\" \/>The social media company adopted a shareholder rights plan to protect itself from the billionaire\u2019s bid<br \/>\nTwitter on Friday adopted a limited-duration shareholder rights plan to protect itself from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk\u2019s $43bn cash takeover offer.<br \/>\nMusk, the chief executive of Tesla and the world\u2019s richest person, had offered to buy the social media platform for $43.4bn, arguing he wanted to release its \u201cextraordinary potential\u201d to support free speech and democracy across the world. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media company adopted a shareholder rights plan to protect itself from the billionaire\u2019s bid Twitter on Friday adopted a limited-duration shareholder rights plan to protect itself from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk\u2019s $43bn cash takeover offer. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and the world\u2019s richest person, had offered to buy the social media &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/twitter-adopts-poison-pill-plan-to-shield-itself-from-elon-musk-takeover\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter adopts \u2018poison pill\u2019 plan to shield itself from Elon Musk takeover<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}