Wednesday, January 1, 2025

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

Taj Hotel’s data breached, around 1.5mn customers at risk

New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Around 1.5 million people may have had their personal information compromised in a recent data breach at Taj Hotels,...

Tesla, Elon Musk knew of defective Autopilot system: US judge

A US judge has ruled that there is "reasonable evidence" that Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk knew its electric cars had "defective...

US SEC sues crypto trading platform Kraken

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged crypto trading platform Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer and...

Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to lead Google research team

In another dramatic development, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Monday announced the company is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and...

Qatar slaps huge tax penalty on India’s Larsen & Toubro

India’s construction and engineering giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has been slapped with two penalties of Rs 111.31 crore and Rs 127.64 crore...

Biden signs stopgap spending bill, averts govt shutdown

US President Joe Biden has signed the stopgap spending Bill of the house into law, averting an immediate government shutdown and keeping funds...

Amazon partners with Hyundai to start selling cars online next year

Amazon, which started with selling books to finally conquer the vast e-commerce space, will now sell cars online, partnering with South Korean automaker Hyundai...

US national debt exploded to $33tn in September

The US national debt exploded to $33 trillion in September, with the budget deficit doubling to $2 billion. And the debt is rising...

McLaren data breach impacts over 2mn patients in Michigan

US-based McLaren Health Care has admitted that hackers compromised sensitive personal and health information of 2.2 million patients in a recent cyber attack....

Swiss giant Glencore pips India’s JSW Steel in race to buy Canadian coking coal...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) A consortium led by Swiss mining giant Glencore Plc has pipped India’s JSW Steel in the race to acquire...