Washington [US]: Twitter shareholders on Tuesday approved Tesla chief Elon Musk\u2019s USD 44 billion bid to buy the social media platform.<\/p>\n
The approval to accept Musk\u2019s offer of USD 54.20 per share was substantially higher than Twitter\u2019s current trading price, below USD 42 was widely expected. Twitter has forged ahead with the deal, despite Musk\u2019s attempts to back out because of what he says are problems with the company\u2019s business, reported Washington Post.<\/p>\n
Shareholders gave their assent to the deal on Tuesday, the company said. The vote took place during a short virtual meeting after brief remarks by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.<\/p>\n
A US judge on Wednesday (local time) gave a lifeline to Musk by allowing him to amend his complaint against Twitter but rejected delaying the lawsuit over the disintegration of the billionaire\u2019s deal to acquire the social media company.<\/p>\n
His attorneys had requested to amend his counterclaims after a whistleblower filed a complaint about Twitter\u2019s security practices, reported Washington Post.<\/p>\n
In a mixed ruling, Kathaleen McCormick, the chancellor of the Delaware court, said Musk could add whistleblowing revelations from a Twitter ex-security chief that surfaced in August.<\/p>\n
But she denied his request to push back the litigation, saying prolonging the suit \u201cwould risk further harm to Twitter too great to justify.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s attorneys argued to include allegations by Peiter Zatko, Twitter\u2019s former head of security, that the social media platform hid critical information from them as they pursued a deal to purchase it. They said they should be allowed to incorporate the new allegations and pushed to delay the trial, a request that was denied, reported Washington Post.<\/p>\n
The former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko last month made allegations on Twitter of wrongdoings including \u201cTwitter\u2019s tracking and measurement of user engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to US media outlet Axios, Musk\u2019s lawyers on August 29, filed a subpoena for Zatko, asking for \u201cdocuments and communications\u201d regarding a number of the alleged wrongdoings Zatko made.<\/p>\n
Musk sent a second deal termination letter to Twitter by \u201cleveraging\u201d on the recent allegations made by a social media giant whistleblower, media reports said.<\/p>\n
In the termination letter, Musk\u2019s lawyers argued that Zatko\u2019s allegations, \u201cif true, demonstrate that Twitter has breached\u201d a set of provisions from its merger agreement with Musk, including its compliance with all laws and that its assertion that it never filed misleading information to securities regulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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