{"id":599039,"date":"2023-01-19T06:50:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/thursdays-top-tech-news-what-does-funding-secured-mean-anyway\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T06:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:50:05","slug":"thursdays-top-tech-news-what-does-funding-secured-mean-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/thursdays-top-tech-news-what-does-funding-secured-mean-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday\u2019s top tech news: what does \u2018funding secured\u2019 mean anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>If the CEO of a publicly traded company were to tweet that they planned to take their company private, and said they had \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/8\/7\/17661178\/tesla-elon-musk-private-420-share-considering\">funding secured,<\/a>\u201d you\u2019d be forgiven for assuming that, well, they planned to take their company private and had secured funding to make it happen. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/18\/23561443\/elon-musk-securities-fraud-trial-tweet-funding-secured\">Not so fast,<\/a>\u201d argue Elon Musk\u2019s lawyers, in response to being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23558736\/elon-musk-securities-fraud-trial-funding-secured-tweet\">sued by Tesla investors<\/a> over this tweet that the investors say caused them to lose millions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t clear what funding secured even means in a tweet phrase,\u201d say the Tesla CEO\u2019s lawyers, \u201cIt\u2019s not self-evident how one could be just considering something, and yet, all the details are set.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Next up, a new rumor suggests Apple\u2019s smart home ambitions are kicking into a higher gear. The company revealed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/18\/23560648\/apple-homepod-second-generation-sound-quality-impressions\">new Matter-compatible HomePod yesterday<\/a>, and shortly afterwards a report claimed it\u2019s working on a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/18\/23561455\/apple-smart-display-ipad-tv-home-controller\">iPad-like smart display<\/a> to compete with similar devices from Google and Amazon. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the US the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/18\/23561506\/amazon-osha-citations-ergonomics-struck-by-pace\">cited Amazon<\/a> for alleged safety law violations in its warehouses. It\u2019s proposed $60,269 in penalties. Amazon says it disagrees and intends to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>For now, here\u2019s a silly tweet to start your day:<\/p>\n<p><h5>Stay tuned, as we continue to update this list with the most important news of today: Thursday, January 19th, 2023.<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"updates-section\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/19\/23562022\/january-19-2023-tech-news-liveblog\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Mitchell Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the CEO of a publicly traded company were to tweet that they planned to take their company private, and said they had \u201cfunding secured,\u201d you\u2019d be forgiven for assuming that, well, they planned to take their company private and had secured funding to make it happen. \u201cNot so fast,\u201d argue Elon Musk\u2019s lawyers, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25334,46,27453],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-599039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-funding","8":"category-technology","9":"category-thursdays"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}