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Twitter recently suffered a high-profile cyberattack that compromised the accounts of some of its most famous users, including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Kanye West. Twitter recently suffered a high-profile cyberattack that compromised the accounts of some of its most famous users, including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Kanye West. While […]

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk recently drew the ire of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when he tweeted to his 22.3 million followers on Twitter that he was planning to take his company private. On August 7, 2018, Musk tweeted: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” Following this tweet, Tesla’s stock price jumped by over six percent, a significant impact on the market that many attributed to the tweet. The impact was keenly felt by short-sellers, with whom Musk had been feuding.  Tesla later confirmed that a final decision about taking the company private had not yet been reached.

What Can We Learn From Trump’s Tweets Regarding a Social Media Crisis Response Plan? Donald Trump’s use of social media to air his grievances with corporate America is making many businesses very nervous. As Nordstrom recently learned, the President is willing to use his personal twitter account as well as the official @POTUS account to target […]

Mind Your Trade Secrets – Protecting Your Business Data in a Social Media World Facebook users spend more than 700 minutes per month on the site. Meanwhile, Twitter registers 230 million tweets per day. Given the proliferation of social media, it is safe to assume that your employees —from corporate executives to sales staff to […]

Spam has become such a modern reality that we hardly think twice about the occasional promotional email, and junk mail is the single largest use of the United States Postal Service. Like anything, however, there are limits and it appears that at least one group of individuals thinks that Twitter has gone too far. In […]

In Spain, Alba González Camacho was recently convicted of inciting terrorism. While such allegations are far from rare in today’s world, her modus operandi—social media. As reported in The New York Times, prosecutors contend that Camacho’s Twitter posts, which called on the disbanded terror group Grapo to kill several Spanish politicians, crossed the free speech […]

Twitter, Inc. recently announced plans for an initial public offering (IPO). The news confirms that companies are increasingly deciding it’s a good time to get into the game. As of August 31, a total of 131 companies have filed to become public in 2013, compared with just 91 during the same time period last year. […]

WPIX-Channel 11 News at 10 taps Pinguelo, Cyber Law Attorney, for his legal insight on how a website offers its users an easy way to impersonate Twitter accounts and jeopardize online reputations. On Monday, April 29, 2013, Scarinci Hollenbeck Partner Fernando M. Pinguelo, Chair of the firm’s Cyber Security & Data Protection Group, appeared on […]