Discussions over the deal, which last week appeared uncertain, accelerated over the weekend after Elon Musk wooed Twitter shareholders with...

The order to save records strongly suggests Jim Jordan plans to probe Twitter if the Musk offer is rejected and Republicans take back the H...

The "poison pill" was invented 40 years ago by business lawyer Martin Lipton to counteract a wave of hostile takeovers on Wall Street. "It ...

Elon Musk himself has committed to put up $33.5 billion, which will include $21 billion of equity and $12.5 billion of margin loans, to fin...

Twitter's conundrum is that it's widely known but not that widely used, financially successful but not wildly so, sometimes competently man...

The billionaire, who is Twitter's second-biggest shareholder, is planning to launch a tender offer in about 10 days and has tapped Morgan S...

The billionaire, who is Twitter's second-biggest shareholder with a 9.1% stake, is planning to launch a tender offer in about 10 days and h...

The billionaire, who is Twitter's second-biggest shareholder with a 9.1% stake, is planning to launch a tender offer in about 10 days and h...

Apollo Global Management Inc is considering ways it can provide financing to any deal and is open to working with Elon Musk or any other bi...

Twitter adopted a "poison pill" on Friday to limit Musk's ability to raise his stake in the social media platform.

Twitter has been making headlines since Musk on Thursday made a $43-billion cash takeover bid for Twitter at $54.20 per share. The offer is...

Twitter is using the poison pill defense in order to buy time to come up with a plan that would be in the best interests of its shareholder...

The company announced the move Friday and provided more details in a regulatory filing early Monday. On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk discl...

After Musk's TED talk on Thursday, he hinted at the possibility of a hostile bid in which he would bypass Twitter's board and put the offer...

While the poison pill is bad for all shareholders in the near term, it also makes it difficult for the hostile party — in this case, Musk —...

Twitter's board has unanimously adopted a so-called shareholder rights plan, also known as a "poison pill," as the struggle for control of ...

The ingredients of each poison pill vary, but they're all designed to give corporate boards an option to flood the market with so much newl...