Will Elon Musk manage to take over Twitter?

The world’s richest man has launched a hostile takeover bid worth $43bn

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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has set his sights on Twitter, said Christine Emba in The Washington Post. A keen tweeter himself, with more than 82.6 million followers, the Tesla tycoon began by “secretively” purchasing a 9.2% stake in the social media company, making him its largest individual shareholder. Now he has launched a hostile takeover bid worth $43bn, at $54.20 a share.

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