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US President Joe Biden unveils plan to invest $555 bn on green energy

Amount part of $1.75-trillion tax and spending blueprint, which represents a historic investment in fighting climate change

Google, Microsoft beat Street with $110-billion revenue haul

Twitter says effect of Apple's privacy changes was less than feared

LinkedIn is pulling out of China, though Microsoft remains

While Microsoft chases growth for Bing, Teams and its cloud service, Azure, from China, its Windows operating system still dominates in the country with stringent regulations

Apple privacy tweaks create windfall for its own advert biz: Report

The in-house business, called Search Ads, offers sponsored slots in the App Store that appear at the top of search results

Hollywood workers reach deal on fresh contract, avert strike

An 11th-hour deal was reached on Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs

OECD deal to rev up digitisation, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman

In meet with US CEOs, Sitharaman says India offers a spectrum of opportunities to businesses

Apple likely to slash iPhone 13 production due to chip crunch: Report

The firm expected to produce 90 mn new iPhone models in the last 3 months of the year

Global debt jumps to new high of $226 trillion, says IMF report

Sees risk of sizeable sell-off in stocks

Regret being drawn into the dispute between Zee and Invesco: Reliance

'Never resorted to any hostile transactions,' clarifies RIL

Cabinet okays Rs 28,655 cr subsidy on P&K fertilisers for rabi season

Total subsidy burden to be around Rs 130,000 in FY-22, almost 63% more than budgeted

'Delete Facebook' features on American news magazine TIME's cover

American news magazine TIME has brought out its latest edition with Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg

RBI keeps rates on hold to support recovery, 'sail towards normal times'

Repo rate and the reverse repo rate remain unchanged at 4% and 3.35%

Shiba Inu cryptocurrency up 216% in a week; bitcoin hits $54,000

The rally was partly fueled by Elon Musk's latest tweet about his own puppy

Facebook whistleblower to say former employer an 'urgent threat' to US

Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, says the social media giant keeps its algorithms and operations a secret

Zuckerberg loses $7 billion over Facebook outage; Telegram, Signal gain

The stock slide sent Zuckerberg's worth down to $120.9 bn, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

IPL 2021 MI vs RR highlights: Ishan shines as MI keeps playoffs hope alive

MI restricted Royals to a below-par 90 for nine and chased down the target with 11.4 overs to spare. Coulter-Nile (4/14) took four wickets while Neesham (3/12) scalped three batsmen

Pro Kabaddi League 2021 to start on Dec 22 in Bengaluru without spectators

Pro Kabaddi league will implement protocols to comply with government guidelines and will work with specialised safety agencies to implement stringent safety practices and create a bio-secure bubble

Pak leaders call for Imran Khan's resignation over Pandora Papers

The papers have revealed more than 700 names of those in Pak PM's Cabinet and inner circle

Indices bounce back after four-day fall; NTPC gains over 4%, SBI rises 2.5%

The Sensex ended the session at 59,299, a gain of 533 points or 0.9 per cent

RBL Bank MD Vishwavir Ahuja gets shareholders' nod at AGM for fourth term

Ahuja, a veteran with close to 35 years of experience, joined RBL in 2010 and has been successful in transforming it into a vibrant, new-age bank