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Billionaires at Trump's inauguration hold wealth equal to 1/3 India's GDP

World's richest men: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Mukesh Ambani, and Bernard Arnault all attended various inauguration events

Amid Musk-Ambani row, India eyes satellite spectrum to attract global firms

Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia defends the decision to allocate satellite spectrum, aiming to boost consumer choices and attract global players, despite concerns from Reliance Jio

US federal employees sue Elon Musk's DOGE after Donald Trump's inauguration

US federal employees, backed by watchdog groups, have filed a lawsuit against President Trump's cost-cutting DOGE plan led by Elon Musk, alleging violations of advisory committee rules

From immigration to trade, here's a list of Donald Trump's executive orders

Announcing measures across immigration, trade, energy, and federal workforce policies, Donald Trump positioned these orders as reversals of Joe Biden's administration

Musk accused of Nazi salute at Donald Trump's inauguration event

Elon Musk has been accused of making a Nazi-like gesture during Trump's inauguration celebration, sparking controversy and drawing mixed reactions from critics and supporters

Ramaswamy leaves DOGE after Trump takes office, to run for Ohio governor

Ramaswamy, 39, was chosen by the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, to lead the department alongside billionaire Elon Musk

'Something needs to change,' Elon Musk questions X's ban in China

He, however flagged off an imbalance, stating that though TikTok is allowed to operate in the US, X is banned in China.

Chinese President's envoy meets Vance, Musk on eve of Trump's inauguration

China's vice president held meetings with the US vice president-elect and US business leaders, including Elon Musk, in Washington on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, as the two major powers tackle ongoing tensions over trade and technology. Han Zheng, who serves as an envoy for Chinese President Xi Jinping at the inauguration, discussed a range of topics including fentanyl, balancing trade and regional stability with J D Vance, according to the Trump transition team. Han stressed the extensive common interests and enormous space of cooperation the United States and China share in economic and trade relations despite some disagreements and frictions, according to a readout of his meeting with Vance issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday. Trump has threatened to impose tariffs and other measures against China in his second term, while also hinting and ways in which the two rival powers could cooperate on issues such as regional conflicts and curbing the export of ...

Musk hosts Indian bizmen, says 'open to lowering India-US trade barriers'

Oyo, Flipkart and Aditya Birla Group leaders among entrepreneurs who met with Elon Musk and toured his SpaceX base

SpaceX launch accident likely caused by fire, debris trails near Caribbean

SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean. SpaceX's Elon Musk said preliminary indications are that leaking fuel built up pressure in the cavity above the engine firewall. The resulting fire would have doomed the spacecraft. On Friday, the company promised "a thorough investigation" in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration. The 400-foot Starship the world's biggest and most powerful rocket launched from the southern tip of Texas on a test flight early Thursday evening. The booster made it back to the pad for a catch by giant mechanical arms, only the second time in Starship history. But the engines on the still ascending spacecraft shut down one by one, and communication was lost 8 1/2 minutes into the flight. Dramatic video taken near the Turks and Caicos Islands showed spacecraft debris raining down from the sky in a stream of fireballs. Flights near the falling debris

Starship's fiery explosion creates a dazzling spectacle across the skies

Skies over the Caribbean lit up with colourful streaks of fireballs on Thursday after SpaceX's seventh Starship test ended in a failure, resulting in an explosion

Starship Super Heavy Booster returns to launch mount, says Elon Musk

In November 2024, SpaceX's Starship, owned by Musk was launched amid much anticipation and fanfare as the rocket embarked on its sixth test flight

SpaceX Starship explodes: What went wrong with Elon Musk's rocket?

The explosion, which took place over the Gulf of Mexico, caused nearby airline flights to change course to avoid falling debris

'Community Notes' model on Meta platforms will not apply to paid ads

Aspects of the program remain subject to change, the report said, adding that brand and influencer organic posts might not be subject to Community Notes when they first go live

As Biden warns of 'oligarchy,' Trump inauguration to host tech billionaires

President Joe Biden's pointed warning about the US becoming an oligarchy of tech billionaires will be illustrated at Donald Trump's inauguration, when the world's three richest men will sit on the dais as Trump is sworn in for a second term. Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest person, took an unprecedented, hands-on role in the final stretch of Trump's campaign, spending some USD200 million through a super PAC. Musk has a new role reshaping government in the upcoming administration and will be joined on the dais by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Both men's companies have enormous contracts with the federal government. Rounding out the trio is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who recently changed his company's priorities to align with Trump's and has cozied up to the president-elect less than six months after Trump threatened to imprison him. The three men are worth nearly USD1 trillion combined and will be joined at the inauguration by the chief executive officers of OpenAI and the social medi

SpaceX's Starship explodes in space after launch, forces flights to divert

SpaceX mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded Starship, carrying its first test payload of mock satellites, eight minutes after liftoff from its South Texas rocket facilities

UK backs probe into child sexual abuse gangs after Musk stoked controversy

Britain's government said on Thursday that it will support a series of local inquiries into cases of organised child sexual abuse in the wake of a furore largely stoked by the world's richest man Elon Musk. In a statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government has also authorised what she called a rapid audit of the current scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country and make recommendations. The issue of so-called grooming gangs", also called rape gangs" by some, has risen up the political agenda in the UK after Musk recently took to his X platform highlighting the problem and condemning British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Musk criticised Starmer for not backing a national inquiry into the matter following a request from the local authority in the northern English town of Oldham, where police found girls under 18 were sexually exploited by groups of men in the 2000s and 2010s. Musk also alleged that Starmer failed to bring perpetrators t

As pressure mounts, UK govt announces probes into child rape gangs

The announcement marks a partial retreat by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who had pushed back against demands by Musk and others for a fresh national inquiry into the child rape gangs

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Musk is hiring for software engineer role with no degree for Everything App

Elon Musk has never believed in formal education and now the billionaire is hiring for a software engineer role for which 'no fancy degree or experience' is required