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AEPD, issued the ban on Wednesday, demanding an immediate halt to the collection of personal information by Worldcoin and instructing the company to cease using already gathered data. The AEPD's action follows several complaints, including concerns about insufficient information, data collection from minors, and issues related to consent withdrawal.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been asked to explain why it prevented Fortnite video-game maker Epic Games from launching its own online marketplace on iPhones and iPads in Europe and whether this breaches EU technology rules, EU antitrust regulators said on Thursday.

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IIFL Finance jumped over 9% on Thursday to the day's high of Rs 417 on the NSE after breaking their four-session losing streak. The price action was amid strong volumes with over 79.84 lakh shares getting traded on the NSE at around 10 am. On Wednesday, Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, a longstanding investor in IIFL Finance announced that it will provide liquidity support of $200 million amidst the RBI embargo on the company's gold loan disbursements.

IIFL Finance, one of the leading NBFCs engaged in retail credit, rebounded in today's session with an intraday gain of 10%, reaching ₹420.40 apiece after the company on Wednesday announced that Fairfax India agreed to invest up to US$200 million in liquidity support amidst the recent Reserve Bank of India (RBI) embargo on the company's gold loan disbursements. "The RBI's embargo has raised liquidity concerns amongst the company’s investors and lenders.

TOI report, in the affidavit submitted to the High courts of Punjab and Haryana, the administration stated that it would refund the money deposited by the petitioners and the other applicants. Coming back to Bansal, he said that the UT administration shelved the housing scheme more than 16 years after it was introduced. He added that the decision was made in response to an increase in land costs, which has led to breaking the dreams of over 4,000 employees, many of whom even passed away while waiting for a flat, a report by Hindustan Times stated.

A post shared by Viral Bhayani (@viralbhayani) A paparazzo shared this video, capturing many celebrities dancing to the popular ‘Naatu Naatu’ track. Telugu superstar Ram Charan had danced on the original track with Jr NTR in SS Rajamouli’s 2022 historical action epic RRR.

Investing.com-- Chemicals maker Chemours Co (NYSE:CC) said on Wednesday that an internal review found that its  top three executives, who were placed on administrative leave last week, had violated the firm’s code of ethics, particularly regarding financial disclosures.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam has reiterated his call for Congress to pass legislation clarifying crypto regulation. The call for congressional action was presented during Wednesday’s hearing before the House Agriculture Committee.

A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool

India's pace of economic expansion in FY24 could be close to 8%, likely topping earlier official estimates, said central bank governor Shaktikanta Das. Pointing to the latest high-frequency indicators of growth, Das said, «Now that we have numbers for three quarters… Our sense and understanding of ...the momentum of economic activity tell us this 5.9% growth in the fourth quarter could be exceeded.» He also spoke about the recent Reserve Bank of India (RBI) action in the payments sector, challenging what he termed «a narrative building up» that the regulator had taken measures against fintech companies. Das said RBI's action was against a regulated entity — Paytm Payments Bank. «Fintech companies are not regulated by RBI unless they are NBFCs,» he said.

TORONTO — Royal Bank of Canada plans to ramp up its renewable energy funding, even as it also reported little progress on reducing the emissions intensity of its oil and gas financing.

says it has detected benzene, a chemical that causes cancer, in several popular, over-the-counter acne products including those from brands like Clearasil, ProActiv, Walmart and Clinique, among others.Valisure, an independent lab whose discovery of benzene in dry shampoo in 2022 prompted the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada to issue recalls, reported that its “extensive testing” revealed the same carcinogen can form at high levels in benzoyl peroxide products used to treat acne, and that it found it in products from the brands it tested.Health Canada, the World Health Organization and FDA all state benzene can cause cancer.“High levels of benzene were not only detected inside BPO (benzoyl peroxide) products, but also in the air around incubated BPO products,” Valisure’s report stated, “showing that benzene can leak out of some product packages and pose a potential inhalation risk.”The report also stated that benzene can form “over 800 times” the FDA conditionally restricted concentration limit in products and that “the current evidence suggests that this problem applies broadly to BPO products currently on the market.”The lab detected the benzene levels it says raise concerns in 66 benzoyl peroxide-containing acne treatment products incubated at 50 C for 18 days.

Election Commission has asked former Congress president Rahul Gandhi to be more careful in his public utterances in the wake of his ‘panauti’ (bad omen) and ‘pickpocket’ jibes at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, news agency PTI reported on Wednesday citing sources. The report said the election commission also asked the senior Congress leader to follow its recent advisory for star campaigners and political leaders in the right earnest during the election campaign.

Sebi) has released a public notice to announce a settlement scheme with regards to certain entities in the illiquid stock options (ISO) segment of BSE. The scheme would give a settlement opportunity to all the entities that have executed reversal trades in the stock options in the period between April 1, 2014 and Sept 30 2015.

MUMBAI : Bulls turned the tables on bears in the last hour and a half of trading on positive cues from the global markets, lifting benchmark indices to new closing highs on Wednesday. US futures indicated the Dow Jones may open in the green ahead of the Fed chair's appearance at the Congress, aiding markets in India. Interest rate cuts were likely “at some point this year", chairman Jerome Powell said in a prepared testimony released later, but made it clear the Fed is not ready yet.

Canada and the U.S. is set to spring ahead to daylight saving time (DST) this Sunday.

The actions unveiled in the chancellor's ‘Budget for Long-term Growth' included the introduction of a Great British ISA, abolishing ‘non-dom' taxes, cutting national insurance, expanding full expensing to leased assets, maintaining the pension triple lock and extending the fuel and alcohol duty freezes. In his speech, the chancellor said progress has been made on the government's aims from the Spring Budget 2023 to reduce inflation and debt, and the economy is «beginning to turn a corner» so the focus can shift to growth through tax cuts. Spring Budget 24: UK economy to grow more in 2...

Attorneys for Meta and founder Mark Zuckerberg are seeking dismissal of shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child sexual exploitation

The Biden administration is hailing the arrest of a California man accused of smuggling illicit air coolants into the United States

Zomato through bulk deals on Wednesday, March 6, according to data available on BSE. Antfin offloaded a total of 176.4 million shares of the company within the price range of ₹160.11 to ₹160.40 per share. The Chinese company held a 6.32% stake in the quick commerce services provider, as of December 2023.