If Elon Musk does eventually take over Twitter Inc he will quickly discover the one feature he’s disparaged the most, bots, are the key to the platform’s ongoing growth. Musk may also be glad to see that its main rival in ephemeral social media, Snap Inc, doesn’t even have that same “problem.” Both companies reported earnings and similarly disappointed investors. ...

  Satellite startup OneWeb Ltd’s past decade has resembled a space opera. Founded by a US entrepreneur and headquartered in London, it has partnered with Google and Elon Musk, supplied Arianespace, attracted investment from Hughes Network Systems and SoftBank Group Corp and fallen into bankruptcy. It was then rescued by the UK government and India’s Bharti Global. The next act ...

  The must-read reporting over the weekend was Jonathan Swan’s series at Axios exploring the efforts of former President Donald Trump’s supporters and other Trump-friendly Republicans to prepare to staff a potential Trump second term. During the presidential nomination competition in 2015-2016, Republican party actors generally opposed Trump, in part because they considered him a risky general election candidate and ...