Media such as Business Insider, the Washington Post and the Financial Times all write that they have been informed of this by people with knowledge of the matter. Musk reportedly fired top executives at the company soon after he took over, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal. Both Agrawal and Segal are said to have been at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco when the deal was closed. They should both have been escorted out, sources told the Reuters news agency. Musk and Twitter got into a legal conflict after the billionaire tried to withdraw the offer to buy the messaging service for 44 billion dollars. Twitter sued to force him to stand by the purchase agreement. Elon Musk during a visit to Stavanger earlier this year. Photo: Josef Benoni Ness Tveit / news A court gave Musk until Friday to complete the purchase agreement from April. Neither Musk nor Twitter has officially confirmed that the deal is in the works. The Twitter share has been withdrawn from trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, according to the exchange’s website.
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