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08.07 / 01:25
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Telegram
Mobile
consultation
NOT
To regulate OTT apps or not? Trai begins consultation process
Telegram and Signal. The issue pits the app makers and the startup community against telcos. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will also deliberate selective banning of OTT services during instances of civil unrest that has a broad impact.
08.07 / 01:17
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regulation
Action
Fallout
South Korean Regulator Will Force Staff to Declare Crypto – Will Other Countries Follow Suit?
The top South Korean financial regulator will force its employees to declare their crypto holdings in the aftermath of the “Coin Gate” scandal.
07.07 / 18:35
Target
BLOCK
Progressive
Racing
Immunic
Biogen
Factbox-Companies in Alzheimer's race after US nod for Eisai/Biogen drug
(Reuters) — Eisai Co (OTC:ESAIY) Ltd and Biogen Inc (NASDAQ:BIIB)'s Leqembi emerged as the first Alzheimer's treatment to win the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's standard approval on Thursday, a milestone in drug development for a disease that has seen multiple failures in the past.
07.07 / 18:19
UPS
BLOCK
Platform
McDonald’s
Tomatoes go missing in burgers as firms cite crop shortage
NEW DELHI : Amid soaring prices and a scarcity of quality tomatoes during the monsoon season, several fast-food restaurants in India have halted serving the culinary staple to customers. Notices indicating the unavailability of tomatoes were posted at some McDonald’s outlets in north and east India on Friday, posts on social media platforms showed. However, McDonald’s clarified that the decision to remove tomatoes from its offerings is due to the inability of tomatoes in some regions to meet its global quality standards rather than the rising prices of the popular vegetable.
07.07 / 18:19
BLOCK
Digital
Immunic
HC questions govt’s plan for fact check
MUMBAI : The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Centre if it was allowed under law to have a statute with “unbound" and ‘limitless’ discretionary authority. The court’s comments came while hearing a petition filed by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra challenging the Centre’s recent notification on Fact Check Unit (FCU) to identify fake news under the government’s amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. A division bench led by Justices G.S.
07.07 / 18:15
Blockchain
Ethereum
Twitter
BLOCK
CEO
Bitcoin
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Credits Ordinals NFTs for Reviving a "Builder Culture" on Bitcoin
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared insights regarding new developments on the Bitcoin blockchain.
07.07 / 17:33
Provident
BLOCK
Aware
penalty
Sebi slaps Rs 1 crore penalty on Fidelity for violating FPI norms
Sebi on Friday slapped a penalty of Rs 1 crore on Fidelity Management & Research Company for flouting the FPI rules in the matter of Fidelity Investments Money Management. In August 2021, designated depository participant JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) informed Sebi about the delay in intimation of change in material information of Fidelity Investments Money Management (FIMM).
07.07 / 17:33
UPS
Provident
BLOCK
Apple
Apple pulls predatory lending apps from India App Store
Apple has removed several predatory lending apps from the App Store in India, after users took to social media and complained about them. Over the past few days, several users stated that apps with names like White Kash, Pocket Kash, Golden Kash had started showing up on the Top Finance Apps chart. In a reply to ET’s queries on Friday, Apple confirmed that it has removed the apps for violating its policies.
07.07 / 17:07
UPS
Provident
BLOCK
German Government
German government puts off vote on a contentious heating plan until September
Germany’s governing coalition has put off until September a vote on contentious legislation to encourage the replacement of fossil fuel heating systems after the country’s top court shot down plans to push it through parliament this week
07.07 / 17:07
COST
FIVE
BLOCK
Railroad industry sues to block limit on crew sizes that Ohio imposed after E. Palestine derailment
The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio imposed after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine in February
07.07 / 13:11
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07.07 / 12:55
Facebook
UPS
Target
BLOCK
Booking
Persona
Drag
events
Transgender woman, bookstore, teacher sue over Montana law banning drag reading events
A transgender woman, the owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana's first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries
07.07 / 12:55
UPS
Provident
MET
BLOCK
Cooper
Action
Yellen's visit to Beijing aims to heal rifts over a daunting array of China-US antagonisms
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Beijing as part of efforts to revive U.S.-Chinese relations that are at their lowest level in decades due to disputes over technology, security and other irritants
07.07 / 12:55
BLOCK
Action
Biden administration seeks stay of judge's social media order, saying it could cause 'grave harm'
Biden administration attorneys say a Louisiana-based federal judge’s order broadly limiting executive branch communications with social media companies could cause “grave harm” by preventing the government from “engaging in a vast range of lawful and r...
07.07 / 12:55
07.07 / 10:33
Target
FIVE
BLOCK
Man
Maxim
Fighting
Strategy
Wagner
The weaknesses weighing on Vladimir Putin after Wagner mutiny
Putin emerged from last month's Wagner mutiny looking weakened, despite defusing the immediate threat, according to analysts. The short-lived and ultimately aborted revolt by Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenary force marked the most dramatic challenge ever to Putin's rule. The Belarus-brokered deal to halt Wagner's march toward Moscow saw off a major clash, yet now that agreement seems to be in question.
07.07 / 08:39
Citi
BLOCK
Citizens
Yellow
Orange
Watch: Severe flooding after hailstorm; drivers trapped in cars, people clung to trees in Spain's Zaragoza
Also read: Mumbai Monsoon Rain: Yellow alert in the city today; check local train status to traffic updates here Despite the heavy rain, there were fortunately no reports of accidents or injuries. The city of Zaragoza experienced severe disruptions, with tram services being affected and several bus lines being diverted. The most challenging situation occurred on the Third Ring Road near the Barranco de la Muerte, where numerous individuals became trapped in their vehicles along with some people clinging to trees in the street, leading to complicated rescue operations.
07.07 / 06:43
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Microsoft
Google
Reddit
Interface
No more NSFW? Reddit blocks access to porn, obscenity via third-party apps
Reddit announced in April that it planned to allow third parties access to its application programming interface, or API, data. In an interview with the New York Times, Huffman had argued that popular chatbots on the market such as Google's Bard, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat were trained using Reddit's API data.
07.07 / 06:23
BLOCK
Waters
Highways
Stranded
National
Uttarakhand: Badrinath national highway blocked due to landslide, tourists stranded
Badrinath national highway near Chhinka in Uttarakhand is blocked due to boulders falling from the hill, Chamoli police said, leaving many devotees and tourists stranded. The road has been blocked near Chhinka on the Badrinath National Highway, Chamoli police tweeted.
07.07 / 05:19
Facebook
UPS
Twitter
BLOCK
CEO
Platform
Threat
Why Meta's Threads app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet
Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, launched the new platform yesterday, ahead of schedule. Threads was welcomed almost immediately – especially by hordes of Twitter users that have watched in dismay as their beloved platform crumbles in the hands of Elon Musk.
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