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Big news today
Musk said he would buy Coca-Cola
Musk appears to have set his sights on Coca-Cola again and threatened to buy it next in order to reintroduce the cocaine ingredients.
After causing an uproar, he tweeted again to try to ease the situation.
As for whether Musk really has his eye on Coca-Cola, perhaps only he knows.
Time magazine officially announced the cover of its May issue yesterday: It is Musk, who just bought Twitter for $44 billion.
Time magazine published a cover article saying that Musk's astonishing move to buy and privatize Twitter has made his views on politics, society and human discourse a pressing issue.
Musk claims that he bought Tweet not for profit, but for the benefit of society.
He said an inclusive free speech arena was important, but did not answer how such a platform could be reached.
NetEase Cloud Music sued Tencent Music for unfair competition, and Tencent Music responded: I hope to touch less porcelain
On April 27, NetEase Cloud Music announced on weChat public accounts and Weibo that it sued Tencent Music for unfair competition.
He also released harsh words:
Even though we all acknowledge that unfair competition occurs from time to time in business, there are few fields that can be like domestic online music, so there is no grass.
NetEase Cloud said that for a long time, Tencent Music Entertainment Group (including QQ Music, Kuwo Music, Kugou Music, National K Song and other products) has infringed its own copyright through illegal piracy and snuck of unauthorized songs, batch impersonation and song washing, follow-up plagiarism product innovation, etc., and constituted an act of unfair competition.
In this regard, Chen Mo, head of brand public relations of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, posted the following in the circle of friends:
At 7 o'clock tonight, Huawei released a new folding screen flagship phone
At 7 o'clock tonight, Huawei will hold a folding flagship and all-scenario new product launch. The conference included the new folding screen Huawei Mate Xs 2, Huawei WATCH GT 3 Pro, and Huawei Smart Screen V Pro.
The new Mate Xs 2 is Huawei's fifth folding screen phone since 2019.
It is basically close to the weight of ordinary mobile phones, and has greatly improved in drop resistance and durability.
According to Yu Chengdong, managing director and CEO of Huawei's terminal business, the phone is "ultra-thin, ultra-flat, and ultra-reliable."
Yu Chengdong said that last year, the supply of Huawei mobile phone chips was limited, and now the supply of Huawei mobile phones has been greatly improved.
This year Huawei phones began to come back.
Facebook shares surged 18 percent, and Q1 users resumed growth
According to Meta's fiscal 2022 Q1 financial report, although Meta Q1 revenue was $27.9 billion, up 6.6% year-on-year, the slowest growth rate in a decade, the quarterly profit of $7.5 billion was better than analysts expected.
In addition, Facebook users resumed growth, and various factors combined to push Meta's stock price to rise more than 18% at one point in after-hours trading.
Facebook's average daily active users in March were 1.96 billion, up 4 percent year-over-year and better than analysts' estimate of 1.94 billion, earnings reports showed.
In February, Meta's stock price was hit hard, and its market value evaporated by more than $220 billion. At that time, the company's Q4 financial report released last year showed that daily active users decreased, profits fell more than expected, and the revenue outlook was bleak.
Meta expects revenue in Q2 to be $28 billion to $30 billion this year, compared with analysts' expectations of more than $30 billion.
South Korea built the first self-sufficient floating city on the sea
According to Quartz, the Busan City Government of South Korea unveiled an Oceanix Busan city model on April 26.
At the end of last year, the mayor of Busan, South Korea, and the director of the United Nations Habitat Programme signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of the world's first "floating city" plan.
The first part of the project is expected to be completed by 2025.
Architectural renderings show that the oceanix Busan city is built on three buoyancy platforms, which are connected by a bridge over the sea. After completion, the total area of the city is 6.3 hectares, which can accommodate 12,000 people.
The city has a full range of infrastructure, including apartment buildings, markets, offices, parks, green energy grids, and hydroponic farms. The energy and water needs of the production and life in it will all be self-sufficient by this smart city.
Sources say SoftBank and ARM will remove Wu Xiongang, CEO of the Chinese joint venture
According to Bloomberg, people familiar with the matter said that SoftBank Group and its subsidiary ARM are about to reach an agreement to regain control of ARM China and remove Arm China CEO Wu Xiongang.
In 2020, ARM China's board of directors, which is made up of representatives of SoftBank, ARM and Chinese investors, fired Wu Xiongang on suspicion of a conflict of interest. However, he has refused to leave and continues to hold the company's official seal and registration documents, and continues to operate the ARM China joint venture.
SoftBank tried to sell ARM to Nvidia last year, but failed.
In response to the dismissal of Wu Xiongang, CEO of the Chinese joint venture, ARM China insiders responded that they would not comment.