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  2023 wrapped: the 6 biggest business stories

  Today, we’re recapping the year that was. To do it, we’re bringing in the whole team at Equity Mates to share what they think are were the biggest business stories of the year.

  8 December

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  Fast 3: Is it really cheaper to buy than rent? | World’s first plastic waste treaty | Elon’s latest outburst

  Today, we’re covering a range of topics today from a world-first global treaty on plastic waste to why Elon Musk told Disney CEO Bob Iger to go f- himself.

  6 December

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  Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank

  Elon Musk continues to take steps towards a dream that he had more than 20 years ago. Before he merged his financial services company with Peter Thiel’s company to create PayPal, Musk dreamed of building an all-in-one financial platform, X.com.

  8th Nov, 2023

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  Leveraged ETFs, Ren's Melbourne Cup tip & Speccy Magee returns

  Speccy Magee returns! He's heard your calls and come back to take the mic with a typically under-researched stock pick.

  6 November

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  Threads: Can Zuck just copy Elon's homework?

  Sascha and Alec discuss the story behind Threads and ask a big question that we were left with when we realised Threads was pretty much a clone of Twitter. What are the rules around just copying your competitors products?

  10 July

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  Twitter doesn't exist anymore

  Join Sascha and Darcy as they travel through three headlines that have them intrigued. Apparently, Twitter no longer exists, one million people are going to be given free vapes in the UK.

  17 April

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  Twitter, cut in half

  There is an open question about whether these layoffs will lead to a Twitter outage. According to this article, employees that remained at the company were torn on the risk.

  8th Nov, 2022

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  56 - November Market Update, Elon Bought Twitter and how Ethereum is helping to fight cancer!

  On this week's episode Trace, Blake & Craig give you a market update with some key dates to look out for this November.

  7 November

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  Binance CEO says he anticipates 90% of Elon Musk's newly proposed Twitter features will fail: 'The majority of them will not stick'

  Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, whose company invested $500 million in the acquisition, said Musk has been a "hard guy to predict" over the past few months.

  3 Nov, 2022

  SOURCE: Business Insider

• Social Media

  Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job cuts - Washington Post

  Twitter, which was acquired last week by billionaire Elon Musk, plans to let go of a quarter of its workforce as part of what is expected to be a first round of layoffs, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

  1 Nov, 2022

  SOURCE: Reuters

• What our merger market can learn from the Musk-Twitter saga

  Australias market should adopt the US and UK practice of requiring that all material documents are published on the ASX or the targets website.

  26 Oct, 2022

  SOURCE: Australian Financial Review

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  The Elon Musk v Twitter lawsuit is heating up

  In April, Elon Musk signed a deal to buy the social media platform for $44 billion. Months later, he tried to walk away from the deal claiming too many fake accounts and Twitter has sued him to enforce the sale. As the court date gets closer, both sides are making moves. So we wanted to check in on the court case and keep up with what is happening.

  6 September

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  Work from home battle lines are drawn: Apple, Tesla, Twitter & Airbnb

  Last week an Elon Musk email was leaked where he said, "Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla." It led to a big conversation at the Equity Mates office, about whether working from home just a phase, and will there eventually be pressure to return to the office on the horizon? Sascha and Darcy examine 'What is the new normal for work life balance?'

  9 June

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  Expert: Jon Erlichman - We hope he Tweets this episode...

  Jon Erlichman is a correspondent and anchor for CTV National News, Canada’s most watched nightly newscast, and a senior anchor for Bloomberg Markets. But how we know Jon is as one of the most effective finance communicators on social media - if you don’t follow him on Twitter or watch his TikTok’s - you should.

  19 May

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  Bots enter the chat: Elon's Twitter deal on hold

  On the weekend Elon tweeted: Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users. Then he hit pause on his takeover deal with Twitter. Then all hell broke loose.

  17 May

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  Twitter’s hostile takeover & the end of Netflix

  It has been a big week in investing news… Elon Musk has launched a hostile takeover (!) of one of the world’s largest social media companies Twitter, and Netflix’s share price plummeted 35% after some disappointing first quarter results. After so much market drama in one week, we just had to jump behind the mics and help break down the who, what, where, when & why.

  26 April

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  Just billionaire things: Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter

  Whether you consider Elon an eccentric, and unreliable leader, or an unrelenting champion of free speech, he’s achieved an extraordinary amount. He’s an entrepreneur, investor, and is currently the world’s richest man. He's busy too - he's the founder, and CEO of SpaceX; & Tesla, founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. So when we read that he’d made an offer to buy Twitter - the social media company where he’s amassed 83 million followers - we had to talk about it. Today Sascha and Alec answer the question - why does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter?

  23 April

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  The Top Investment Resources for Your Journey | Summer Series

  It’s the final episode of our summer series, and we’re rounding out the series with a comprehensive list of the best investing resources that Bryce, Alec and our community members have used in their investing journeys. There are a huge range of resources shared here, including books, podcasts, websites and videos. There’s something for everyone in this episode.

  25 January

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  Finding Reliable Crypto Information

  In this episode, your hosts Tracey, Blake and Craig talk about where to find the best crypto information. From websites and apps to books and videos, we explore all the resources available for budding crypto enthusiasts to get the most up-to-date info.

  24 January

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  US Reporting Season Wrap-up | Hearing direct from the tech giant CEOs

  The US Reporting season is well and truly upon us, and all the big tech companies are holding their earnings calls. Despite being such a rich source of information for retail investors, earnings calls have been hard for the average person to access - they’re hard to find, and often at really unfortunate times. Thankfully, Quartr has solved this problem, and now allows the average investor to eavesdrop on these huge earnings calls. In today’s episode they cover four of the big US tech companies - hearing from Twitter, Facebook, Snap, and Square (who talks about their very important APT acquisition).

  8 August

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