In a reply filed on Friday to Twitter's lawsuit, Elon Musk's legal team is pushing back on the company's attempt to have a quick September trial.
Tesla's CEO is asking instead that it take place in February, per mediareports.
Why it matters: Twitter appears intent on getting this sorted out as soon as possible, but Musk wants to have more time for discovery — presumably for a better shot at building his case.
Tariq Trotter is best known as Black Thought, lead MC of hip hop group and "The Tonight Show" house band The Roots. Now he hopes to also become known as a successful venture capitalist.
Driving the news: Trotter tells Axios that he's become a general partner with Impellent Ventures, a firm that seeks to back Rust Belt startups that could benefit from capital connections and mentorship from East Coast tech hubs like New York and Boston.
In a deeply divided world, Wikipedia allows people everywhere seeking information on nearly any topic to find a single page of agreed-upon facts — complete with citations.
Yes, but: For that to happen, an often-fierce debate takes place on the talk pages behind every encyclopedia entry, where people argue over just how the topic should be addressed.
The Federal Election Commission has received hundreds of public comments, virtually all negative, on a Google pilot program that would protect campaign emails from being automatically filtered as spam.
Driving the news: Per an Axios review of hundreds of comments submitted to the FEC, people hate Google's idea, which the company introduced to ease tensions with conservatives who argue their political emails are unfairly flagged for spam by Gmail filters.
Axios has rediscovered a long-lost exclusive release for the original Xbox, which was developed by the team behind a series of acclaimed Star Wars games and quietly canceled by Microsoft two decades ago.
Why it matters: Knights of Decayden (sometimes spelled as Decadyn) has been largely unknown to the public until now and helps highlight a hidden part of early Xbox history.
Hasbro and the New York Times are partnering to turn the popular word puzzle game Wordle into a board game, the companies announced Thursday.
Flashback: Wordle, a daily word game which was bought by New York Times for an undisclosed price in January, went viral after it was first released to the world last October.
That question has been posed to entrepreneurs by venture capitalists so often that it's become a cliché. But not when asked of Richard Socher, the former Salesforce chief scientist who founded a web search startup called You.com.
Driving the news: You.com today is announcing $25 million in Series A funding led by Radical Ventures.
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to begin exploring how its broadband affordability programs can be better tailored to help survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
The big picture: Domestic violence affects more than 12 million people a year, with advocates warning that pandemic lockdowns led to an uptick in cases.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Federal Trade Commission Thursday, the latest in a heated back-and-forth between the country's biggest business lobby and the government's consumer protection agency.
Driving the news: The Chamber filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the FTC for "its lack of transparency and accountability," per an announcement.
Celsius Network on Wednesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the embattled crypto lender halted customer withdrawals in the face of insolvency. Celsius is casting its bankruptcy as a restructuring rather than a liquidation.
Why it matters: The firm is just one among several platforms in crisis amid the great debt unwinding that marks this crypto winter, leaving their customers—many of whom were regular people drawn in by the firm's promises of uber-high yields—in the lurch.
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