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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk posted a tweet on Saturday saying “Love Me Tender”, days after he took aim at Twitter Inc with a $43 billion (about R600 billion) cash takeover offer.<\/p>\n

After Musk’s TED talk on Thursday, he hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he would bypass Twitter’s board and put the offer directly to its shareholders, tweeting: “It would be utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote”.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend Musk, already the San Francisco-based company’s second-largest shareholder after amassing a 9.1% stake in the social media firm, tweeted Twitter board’s “economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders”.<\/p>\n

Twitter on Friday adopted a “poison pill” to limit Musk’s ability to raise his stake in the company.<\/p>\n

Thoma Bravo, a technology-focused private equity firm that had more than $103 billion in assets under management as of the end of December, informed Twitter that it was exploring the possibility of putting together a bid, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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