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Not in talks with Musk's Starlink for a tie-up, says Vodafone India

On Monday, the Bombay Stock Exchange, where Vodafone Idea's stock is listed, had asked the company for a clarification, citing the BusinessWorld report

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

Combined net worth of 500 richest surges by $1.5 trn in 2023, Musk leads

No one did better than Elon Musk, who recaptured the title of world's richest person from French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault. The Tesla chief executive officer netted an additional $95.4 billion

Elon Musk's X fails to block US content moderation law on disclosure

In an eight-page ruling Thursday, a federal judge in Sacramento rejected arguments by the company formerly known as Twitter that the measure violates the free-speech rights of social media platforms

Global corporate landscape 2023: Mergers, closures, and leadership shifts

From acquisitions & mergers to resignations 2023 has been a year of significant milestones in the global corporate world. Here is a recap on all the major event that unfolded in 2023

Chinese carmaker BYD Co overtakes Tesla as world's most popular EV maker

In a sector still dominated by more familiar names like Toyota Motor Corp., Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co., Chinese manufacturers including BYD and SAIC Motor Corp. are making serious inroads

PM Modi's YouTube channel reaches 20M subscribers, most among world leaders

Compared to PM Modi, US President Joe Biden has 794,000 subscribers on YouTube. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on the other hand, has 589,000 subscribers on the video-sharing platform

Tesla to recall over 120,000 vehicles in US: Road safety regulator

The Elon Musk-led automaker has released an over-the-air (OTA) software update to address the issue, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said

X suffers biggest outage since Musk's takeover as over 94k users report it

More than 94,000 users of X had reported issues with the site at 1:41 p.m. Hong Kong time on Thursday, according to Downdetector, which tracks website and service interruptions

X back to normal after facing snag for over an hour on December 21

According to Downdetector, reports of outages on X rose from 5 at 10:46 am on Thursday to 4,773 at 11:14 am

No place for Islam in Europe: Italy's Giorgia Meloni

Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni on Saturday said that Islamic culture and the values and rights of European civilisation have a "compatibility problem". Watch the videos to know more >

Musk gets an edge over Ambani in Centre's satellite internet battle

The proposal was included in a new draft bill for the telecommunications sector, which seeks to replace the 138-year old Indian Telegraph Act that currently governs the sector

EU investigating Elon Musk's X over possible breaches of social media law

European Union are looking into whether Elon Musk's online platform X breached tough new social media regulations in the first such investigation since the rules designed to make online content less toxic took effect. Today we open formal infringement proceedings against @X under the Digital Services Act, European Commissioner Thierry Breton said in a post on the platform Monday. The Commission will now investigate X's systems and policies related to certain suspected infringements, spokesman Johannes Bahrke told a press briefing in Brussels. It does not prejudge the outcome of the investigation. The investigation will look into whether X, formerly known as Twitter, failed to do enough to curb the spread of illegal content and whether measures to combat information manipulation," especially through its Community Notes feature, was effective. The EU will also examine whether X was transparent enough with researchers and will look into suspicions that its user interface, including fo

India cautious as Tesla yet to share electric vehicle launch pricing

The Texas-headquartered electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer has not disclosed pricing details for the introduction of its cars in the Indian market

Elon Musk brands 'diversity, equity and inclusion' as 'propaganda words'

The billionaire is chief executive officer and the largest shareholder of Tesla, the electric-vehicle maker which has boasted that underrepresented groups make up the majority of its US workforce

Narayana Murthy cautions the public not to fall prey to deep fake videos

The videos have a deep fake voice of Murthy endorsing an investment platform Quantum AI that claimed to partner with Elon Musk

Elon Musk's X 2023 advertising revenue projected to slump to about $2.5 bn

X executives had originally targeted $3 billion in revenue from advertising and subscriptions in 2023, but will fall far short of that number, one of the people said

Elon Musk forces eco-conscious Scandinavians to choose between EVs, unions

A small walk-out at Tesla's seven repair shops in Sweden over unfair working conditions has in the past month spiralled into a storm of labor strikes

More than 10 million people signed up for X in December, says CEO

X, which does not regularly release user data, could not immediately be reached for comment on how the December sign-ups compared to average or why Yaccarino disclosed the figure

Elon Musk lashes out again at Bob Iger after Disney pulls ads from X

In a series of posts Thursday, Tesla's CEO appeared to refer to the box-office performance of some recent Disney films, saying Iger "drops more bombs than a B-52