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Harvard plagiarism row: Gay defends research, calls it 'ideological battle'

The school's first Black president stepped down after allegations of plagiarism in her work and anger over the university's handling of antisemitism on campus following Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel

Zuckerberg sells nearly $500 million of Meta stock in 2 months: Report

Marc Benioff, Zuckerberg's peer in the tech world, also sold shares nearly every day in the second half of 2023

Musk's SpaceX illegally fired workers who criticized him, alleges NLRB

NLRB's complaint alleges that SpaceX management told workers it had terminated the employees because of their open letter, restricted others from distributing it, and threatened terminations

Amazon's video ad push expected to generate extra $5 bn in revenue

Amazon's advertising business - mostly search and display ads on its web store - generated $12.1 billion in the quarter ended September 30, about 8.5% of total revenue

Apple leads $370 billion tech rout in reversal from group's 2023 rally

Tesla has shed more than 8% in the last four days, its longest streak of losses since November

Samsung places bet on AI for greater sales as 2024 phone launches kick off

More than a billion smartphones with built-in generative AI are expected to be shipped by the end of 2027, according to Counterpoint Research estimates

China fires top official to stem games fallout, contain damage: Report

Tencent and smaller rival NetEase Inc. gained about 1% in Hong Kong Wednesday, adding to a recovery since officials began signaling a willingness to consider industry views

BYD pulls ahead as world's biggest producer of battery passenger cars

After a $12 billion selloff during November, BYD is as cheap as it has been going back to the start of 2010, despite 31 out of 32 analysts putting a Buy rating on the stock

Central banks have saved the world in the past. And will do so again

'Central banks will occupy an ever-more important position in the economic and security life of nations, if history is any guide'

Japan's New Year earthquake sends out warning to build away from coasts

There's little excuse for developed nations to fail to erect now-proven systems and codes that can save lives. Earthquakes are a prime example

SoftBank veteran Arora becomes a billionaire after another huge payday

Palo Alto Networks handed Arora a $125 million stock and options compensation package when he was hired in 2018

Crude oil advances as Iran warship in the Red Sea escalates tensions

Brent crude climbed as much as 2.6 per cent to top $79 a barrel, before paring some of that gains

Bitcoin surpasses $45,000 for 1st time in 2 yrs on ETF approval hope

Bitcoin has risen over 20 per cent since the start of December as a Jan. 10 deadline for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to give its blessing for a spot ETF Bitcoin draws closer.

Rally in tech stocks in India faces earnings test as growth worries linger

While the rally was initially driven by a global rebound in tech stocks, the Federal Reserve's dovish pivot at the December policy meeting turbocharged the run

Russian crude oil cargoes head away from India amid payment issues

"China seems to have stepped in to save the idling Sokol cargoes," said Viktor Katona, lead crude analyst at data intelligence provider Kpler

China's factory activity picks up in contrast with govt data, shows survey

The Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers index rose to 50.8 last month from 50.7 in November, the strongest reading since August and above the estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

Value of Elon Musk's X cut by another fidelity writedown, shows report

Fidelity cut by a further 11 per cent the value of its holding in X as of the end of November, the report said, citing the latest portfolio update for its Blue Chip Growth Fund

20 dead, scores injured in Japan after major earthquake topples buildings

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the quake caused widespread damage and he had set up a task force to help in rescue and repair operations

The four fortunes riding on PM Modi's victory in Lok Sabha elections

Naturally, the biggest danger of allowing a handful of business groups to aggressively branch into new areas and extend their control over large swathes of economy is extreme concentration of power

Vedanta Resources faces investor reckoning over $3.2 billion of bonds

Vedanta needs a green light from at least two-thirds of the bondholders in each of the three securities to proceed with the plan. A holder meeting will be held on Jan. 4