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From Big Tech's growing influence and Sharad Pawar's political calculus to the Congress' future and the rise of storyselling, here are today's top Opinion pieces.

Starting small is a good way to ease domestic investors into overseas trading

The FAANGs group of tech and internet giants Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google owner Alphabet has been the vanguard of the so-called fourth industrial revolution for over a decade

The FAANG companies (Facebook-Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) listed over 250,000 jobs in 2021 -- a rise of around 44 per cent when compared to 2020, a new report showed on Friday.

Shares of social media and other tech companies slid on Monday, hit by fallout from the siege on the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump

So far, there seems to be limited debate about their activities in India, where virtually all FAANG companies have teamed up in different ways with India's most powerful businessman, writes T N Ninan

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Morgan Stanley analysed how the Mukesh Ambani-led firm stacked up against eight global firms when they crossed the $200-billion milestone

Thus far in CY20, the Nifty IT index has risen 15.5 per cent as compared to over 5 per cent decline in the benchmark Nifty50 index.

True Beacon, which invests only in large-cap stocks and is up about 21% this year, is adding shares of software exporters and pharmaceutical companies

It downgrades stock from 'buy' to 'hold'; CLSA, too, lowers rating

International funds delivered 6.8% returns in one year, against large drawdowns in domestic funds

Since the US and India have DTAA, you will pay tax only once. Dividend income, however, is taxed at 25% in the former

The biggest boost to the main indexes were the FAANG group of stocks - Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Netflix Inc - after bullish brokerage comments

The so-called FAANG trade - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google (Alphabet) - had gained currency this year