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Meta withheld information on Instagram, WhatsApp deals from regulators: FTC

In 2020, the antitrust agency sued Meta alleging that it monopolized the personal social networking market by buying up emerging rivals

China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft makes historic landing on far side of moon

The China National Space Administration announced that Chang'e-6 "successfully landed at the designated landing area," the Xinhua News Agency reported

Working to certify AI memory chips of Samsung, Micron Technology: Nvidia

Samsung has fallen well behind its smaller rival in that market, which has experienced explosive growth because the chips are used for training artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT

US court jury directs J&J to pay $260 million to baby powder user

J&J now faces more than 61,000 suits blaming talc for different types of cancers. Many of the cases have been consolidated before a federal judge in New Jersey

No permanent ceasefire unless Hamas destroyed, says Israeli PM Netanyahu

His comments raise further questions about the three-phase peace plan laid out by Biden, which he said had been put forward by Israel

Killer turbulence makes global airlines turn to IATA's Big Data programme

Turbulence Aware was launched by IATA in 2018 to help airlines mitigate the impact of turbulence, the No. 1 cause of passenger and crew injuries in the air

Ambani faces pushback over 5G deal from parliamentary minority in Ghana

The Ghanaian government's plan to launch a 5G network using a company partnering with Mukesh Ambani is a bad deal for the debt-ridden nation, which needs funds for critical development projects

Saudi Aramco courts foreign investors with roadshows in US, London

During Aramco's 2019 initial public offering, overseas investors had largely balked at valuation expectations and left the government reliant on local buyers

Israel-Hamas war: Google blocks reviews, draws ire from small businesses

The open-ended Google policy - meant to guard against trolls and protestors who'd misuse the system during conflicts - is one example of the struggles facing many small businesses

Pakistan's inflation slows in May, lowest in 30 months amid record rate

The slowing pace of price gains in Pakistan is in part due to the base effect of one of the fastest inflation gains in Asia last year

Here's why revenge travel is finally losing its appeal after three years

Travel demand is far from falling off a cliff. But there are signs that our wanderlust is downshifting from never-ending to a more normal pattern

Global airlines on track for $30 billion profit in 2024, predicts IATA

The outlook compares with the $27.4 billion in profit achieved last year, IATA said at its annual general meeting in Dubai

Infra, state firms big winners as exit polls indicate PM Modi's victory

A third term for Modi is seen by some investors as bolstering India's economy and markets as the promise of policy continuity

EV sales in China defy consumer spending slump as price cuts attract buyers

BYD, the country's best-selling brand, sold 330,488 passenger vehicles in May, an increase of just over a quarter compared with last year

Chinese tourists expected to spend nearly $1 trillion on holidays at home

Spending by domestic holidaymakers is expected to be 11 per cent higher than 2019 - before the Covid pandemic stopped most travel, according to a report

US elections: Trump's victory seen as risk to Fed independence, shows poll

Overall, they put a probability of 40 per cent on the Fed losing its autonomy under a second Trump administration

Surge of free power raise red flags for green technology investors

For more than a million consumers, that meant getting free electricity to heat their homes or charge their vehicles

Global central banks considering different interest-rate cut policies

ECB policymakers led by President Christine Lagarde have insisted they're comfortable plowing a separate furrow from the Federal Reserve

Stocks, bonds set to gain as exit polls show landslide win for PM Modi

The polls suggest the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance will clinch substantially more seats than the 272 required for a majority in the 543-seat lower house of parliament

Bitcoin debate heats up over software update to add fresh features

The front-runner in upgrade debate is a program called OP_CAT - a small software tweak that would add about 10 lines to the code that enables linking of two elements together, so-called concatenation