Today's news: Musk became the largest shareholder of Twitter; a number of car companies released a timetable for discontinuing fuel vehicles

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Musk became Twitter's largest shareholder

Musk has a new move!

On April 4, a document disclosed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed that Tesla founder Musk bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making Musk the largest outside shareholder of Twitter. As soon as the news was disclosed, Twitter's stock price soared nearly 27%, the largest intraday gain in more than four years.

A week earlier, Musk had posted a vote on his personal Twitter tweet asking fans: "Do you think Twitter abides by the principle of 'freedom of speech'?" He also hinted: "This vote is quite important. Please vote for you carefully. At that time, some netizens even ridiculed Musk and asked him to buy Twitter directly.

Jeffreys analyst Brent Hill believes that one of Musk's main motivations may be to influence Twitter's review policy. Musk, who has been a loyal user of Twitter, has publicly attacked Twitter's management for failing to live up to its promise of free speech. Some analysts believe that Musk may continue to increase investment in the future and acquire Twitter in some form.

However, several former U.S. securities regulators and academics said Musk may have missed a key disclosure deadline in the process of acquiring Twitter shares, so it is possible to violate U.S. securities laws again. The SEC's penalty for disclosure is generally around $100,000, equivalent to 0.00003% of Musk's property.

At present, Musk has more than 80 million followers on Twitter, and this investment will undoubtedly give him more influence on social media. Musk's road to internet celebrity is more long-term.

Qingming network worshippers increased by 192%

Nowadays, more and more people are beginning to accept online sacrifice sweeps.

According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, during this year's Qingming Festival, various localities received a total of 17.54 million people who received on-site sacrifices, down 74% from the same period last year. It is worth noting that the number of people participating in the online festival sweep has increased significantly, with a total of 21.56 million people, an increase of 192% over the same period last year.

Under the influence of the epidemic, many people cannot personally arrive at the scene to pay homage to the ancestors, which has promoted the birth of new types of sacrifice sweeping methods such as online sacrifice sweeping and valet sacrifice sweeping. People can send condolences to deceased relatives and friends through the online sacrifice sweeping platform, pay to choose whether to leave messages, offer flowers, etc., or entrust the cemetery staff to make an appointment or purchase the sacrifice sweeping service.

It is reported that there are currently 2304 online sacrifice sweeping platforms across the country, and a number of cloud sacrifice sweeping services have been launched in various places. For example, Beijing citizens can make an appointment for the sacrifice sweeping service, choose the appointment time, and enter the deceased's name, tomb certificate number and other information, and the staff will arrange personnel to perform the sacrifice sweeping on their behalf; Tianjin has launched a "one-to-one" free sacrifice public welfare service.

With the increase in the demand for online sacrifice sweeping, there are some paid services for private sacrifice sweeping on the market, in addition to charging the basic fee of the sacrifice sweep, it will also provide additional value-added services with expensive fees: "Code Name Crying", "Generation Chat" and so on. While remembering the deceased relatives and friends, we must also beware of the chaos of some online festival sweeping services.

A number of car companies have released a timetable for discontinuing fuel vehicles

BYD has become the world's first car company to completely bid farewell to the era of fuel vehicles and enter the era of electric vehicles.

Recently, BYD Automobile officially announced that it will stop the production of fuel vehicles from March 2022 in accordance with its strategic development needs. BYD said that in the future, BYD will focus on pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the automotive sector.

From the data point of view, BYD's passenger car sales reached 104338 in March, and its electrification rate reached 100%, once again refreshing the monthly sales record of New Energy Vehicles in China. Among them, pure electric and hybrid performance are good, EV pure electric sales of 53664 units, DM plug-in hybrid sales of 50674 units. From January to March this year, BYD's monthly sales of fuel vehicles in the passenger car segment were 2254 units, 2795 units and 0 units, respectively.

Previously, a large number of car companies have issued a timetable for discontinuing fuel vehicles. According to public information, most of the time points for domestic car companies to stop selling fuel vehicles are set in 2025, and most overseas car companies are after 2030. Changan Automobile and BAIC Motor plan to fully stop selling traditional fuel vehicles in 2025. Ford and Toyota announced that they will achieve 100% pure electrification in China, Europe, and North America by 2030.

However, for fuel owners, there is no need to worry too much.

In fact, the car is a complex industrial product, generally there will be a long research and development cycle and life cycle, so want to completely "ban the sale of fuel vehicles" is not a simple thing, for car companies, from the traditional fuel vehicle to the new energy vehicle transformation is both a challenge and an opportunity, and for consumers, the current traditional fuel vehicle will still dominate, users can continue to buy fuel models, because from the traditional fuel vehicles to the new energy models still need decades or even decades to complete.

The collective trademark "Putian Shoes" was approved

On April 5, according to the news of China News Network, it was learned from the Putian Footwear Association that the collective trademark of "Putian Shoes" has been approved and successfully registered by the State Intellectual Property Office. This is the first collective trademark of the shoe industry in Fujian Province named after the place name of the municipal administrative division.

The exposed pictures show that in the graphic trademark of "Putian Shoes", the LOGO takes the shoelaces as the composition creativity, outlines the pinyin initials of putian two words "P" and "T", it is reported that the currently registered "Putian Shoes Graphics" collective trademark is valid until February 27, 2032, and the approved use of goods/services includes sports shoes, children's sports shoes, casual shoes, lightweight rubber shoes, foot protection safety shoes, tourist shoes, children's travel shoes and leather shoes.

Apple held an online developer conference on June 6

Apple announced that the 33rd annual Global Developer Conference will be held on June 6, and like several previous WWDC events, the 2022 WorldWide Developer Conference will be held online.

Apple is expected to hold an online keynote on the first day of WWDC to release new software, including iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16 and watchOS 9. It's also possible that we'll see new hardware at WWDC, as Apple is working on new versions of the MacBook Air, among others. WWDC2022 comes at no cost and is available to all developers worldwide.

Lei Jun voted the most popular Xiaomi mobile phone: Xiaomi Mi 6 was elected

April 6 is Xiaomi's 12th birthday. A few days ago, Lei Jun launched a vote: "Will soon usher in the 12th birthday of Xiaomi, do a small survey, which Xiaomi mobile phone do you like the most?" After nearly a day of voting, the "most popular Xiaomi mobile phone" has basically come out.

Judging from the number of voters, a generation of classic "nail households" Xiaomi Mi 6 is far ahead with 21,000 votes, directly opening up the gap with other models. In 2017, the Xiaomi Mi 6 was released because of its balanced product strength, it became a "bucket machine" in the hearts of many rice noodles, and thus cultivated a large number of "nail households". Data released last year shows that the Xiaomi Mi 6 is still used by more than two million people.

The fire loss of Xiao bear electrical appliance cooperative warehouse was 55 million yuan

On April 5, XiaoXiong Electric Appliance issued an announcement that a fire accident occurred in the supply chain of the company's cooperative warehouse, and the supply chain promised to bear full compensation liability for the losses caused by the company in this accident.

According to preliminary statistics, the damaged goods entrusted by the company to the supply chain of Zhongcang to keep and provide delivery services are worth about 55 million yuan. The company's emergency allocation of inventory products has made this fire accident less impactful on recent sales and shipments.

NIO is negotiating with competitors to license battery replacement technology

On April 5, it was reported that Weilai vice president Zhang Hui said that Weilai automobile was negotiating with domestic and international automakers for the licensing of its battery replacement system. NIO aims to build 1,000 battery exchange stations in Europe and the United States by 2025.

Weilai believes that the power exchange technology can win the support of European drivers, due to the scarcity of charging stations and the longer time required to charge, affecting the willingness of European users to buy electric vehicles. Automakers using NIO's power exchange system will need to use NIO's platform to produce cars in order to be compatible with battery swap facilities.