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Investing.com — The S&P500 slipped Friday, ending its five-day record run, though still ended the week in positive even as Intel's slump left a dent in big tech.

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gaming ecosystem in the country benefits from efforts like that by Krafton, creator of Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), to address GoI's concerns to have a ban on the popular game lifted. These concerns are broadly over data localisation and public order, apart from drawing more capital into online gaming, which is a key driver of digital engagement globally. The ban was imposed when India had neither data localisation nor gaming rules.

Krafton, publisher of one of India’s most popular esports titles, Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), made a number of pledges to the government to get the ban on it lifted. This has emerged from ET’s conversations with senior government officials and Indian gaming industry executives.

World of Warcraft (WoW) players anticipate the refreshed Trading Post, an in-game feature enabling the purchase of mounts, pets, and cosmetics with Trader’s Tender currency. Earning Trader’s Tender

Investing.com — U.S. stock futures traded largely flat Wednesday, with traders consolidating the year's strong gains in the final week of the year. SoftBank received a hefty windfall in the form of T-Mobile US shares, while Toyota detailed a record November for global sales. The Chinese economy showed signs of life, while the crude market continued to look at the turmoil in the Middle East.

Shares in SoftBank Group Corp jumped 5% on Wednesday after the Japanese tech conglomerate said it would receive shares in telco T-Mobile US worth some $7.59 billion at no additional cost. Masayoshi Son's conglomerate said late on Tuesday it had told T-Mobile US to issue 48.75 million shares in common stock to it after conditions set out in an agreement made as part of the merger of SoftBank's U.S. telco Sprint and T-Mobile were met. The transaction bolsters the listed assets in SoftBank's portfolio, doubling its T-Mobile US stake to 7.64% from 3.75% currently, following the blockbuster listing of chip designer Arm in September. «This increases the proportion of listed, measurable equity in hand on (SoftBank Group's) balance sheet, and, even better, proportions of marginable equity relative to indebtedness,» Macquarie analyst Paul Golding wrote in a client note. SoftBank's shares have gained only around 14% year-to-date, compared with an almost 30% rise in the benchmark index.

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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today.

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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today.

Vivo Mobile India, which is facing a probe for repeatedly reporting losses in its local operations allegedly to avoid paying tax while remitting huge amounts to its Chinese parent, posted a loss for fiscal 2022 after recording a profit in the previous year. The smartphone company reported a net loss of Rs 123 crore for FY22, as per its recent filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), compared with a net profit of Rs 552.5 crore in FY21, even as sales rose 9% to 26,971.11 crore. It did not give any reason for swinging back to a loss in FY22. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed a chargesheet last week against the company alleging that it had remitted Rs 1 lakh crore outside India between 2014 and 2021 by showing losses to avoid paying income tax, ET among others had reported. An email sent to Vivo seeking comment remained unanswered till Monday press time. ET reviewed Vivo’s last six annual filings available with the RoC, which showed that the company reported net losses in FY17, FY18, FY19, FY20, and FY22, with FY21 being the only exception. “The company will continue its focus to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, enhance value addition to its customer base and maximise capacity utilisation with least cost to achieve higher revenue and improve profitability,” Vivo said in the latest RoC filings made on November 25. Vivo in the filings said its auditors had not made adverse observations or reservations about the company.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has initiated discussions about selling insider shares at a price that values the closely held company at $175 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.

A disgraced Catholic priest who was investigated by police after flying to Italy with a recent high school graduate has legally married the 18-year-old in question, according to an Alabama marriage certificate signed on Friday.

News18. ALSO READ: India hopeful of ‘positive outcome’: MEA on appeal to free ex-navy men in Qatar The report added that the missile may have a range of 500 kilometres which is greater than the range of 350-400 kilometres offered by the supersonic Indo-Russian cruise missile BrahMos.

Route Mobile Ltd is in discussions with large e-commerce and payment platforms to enable a solution that will authenticate financial transactions without the need for a one-time password (OTP), a top executive said. At the same time, he said it would be safe since the solution would arm telcos with a mechanism to identify the nature of a transaction, and act as an additional layer of security to sift genuine transactions from potentially fraudulent ones. Of course, if the talks work out, such a solution would need to pass through several regulatory hoops before launch.

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NEW DELHI : After years of catering to niche audiences with limited return, India’s mobile gaming industry, comprising developers, streamers, esports platforms, and more, is gaining wider popularity. This shift is fuelled by mainstream broadcast deals and growing user willingness to pay for games.

Rogers Communications Inc. in unveiling a new mobile plan for low-income Canadians that it says will make 5G wireless services more accessible for eligible customers, one of several undertakings the company agreed to when it received the federal government’s approval for its acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. earlier this year.

NEW DELHI : After years of stagnation, e-sports and video game firms in India have begun generating in-game and advertisement revenues, thanks to India-specific in-game items, a stronger competitive gaming scene, and widespread use of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a convenient last-mile payment method. An industry report by Google and venture capital firm Lumikai, released on 2 November, pegged the annual average revenue per user (ARPU) for India’s gaming industry to reach ₹1,600 by FY23-end, rising tenfold in the past four financial years.