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Uber Technologies and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each donated $1 million to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday. The ride-hailing firm joins a list of several large businesses that have sought to build a positive relationship with the incoming Trump administration after he won the election in November. The donations by Uber and Khosrowshahi were first reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier in the day.

In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made the largest contributions in 2024, and financial aid, especially for medical students, got most of the money

People worried they'll never get a scarce human transplant want to know when they might get a pig kidney instead

Advertisements pasted along the sidewalk in Kyiv ask for donations to help fill financial gaps across Ukraine's military

BITS Pilani and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Delhi, Madras and Kanpur, among others, are looking to fill their coffers through efforts such as donation campaigns, encouraging collective donations through chapters or batches, organising leadership delegations to countries where alumni reside, increased reunions and alumni get-togethers, encouraging high net-worth donors to set up centres of excellence, forging close connections with companies for corporate social responsibility (CSR) funding and setting up alumni chairs. Aiming high

Donald Trump is hosting Apple CEO Tim Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A growing number of India’s ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNIs) are looking to get a residency in a European nation for their children’s education, to retire, or to give their businesses unfettered access to Europe. However, the costs of these residencies have been increasing as European counties look to cash in on the high demand.

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Donald Trump arrived at the New York Stock Exchange this week for a postelection victory lap, dozens of influential executives lined up to catch a glimpse of the man who holds the future of their businesses in his hands. Gathered behind red velvet ropes were senior executives at Visa, Meta Platforms, Goldman Sachs, Charles Schwab and Citadel, according to people who were present.

OpenAI said Friday that its CEO, Sam Altman, was planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with Trump. «President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead,» Altman said in a written statement sent to The New York Times. His planned donation was first reported by Fox News.

Cook is the latest in a string of big tech leaders — including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos — who have sought to improve their standing with the incoming president after choppy relations with Trump during his first term. Trump has said he has spoken with Cook about the company's long-running tax battles with the European Union.

A pair of conservative groups are challenging a new Maine law that limits donations to political action committees that spend independently in candidate elections

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships the incoming administration

Mark Zuckerberg may not have had a great relationship with current US President-elect Donald Trump but it now looks like he is preparing to repair this relationship by donating a whopping $1 million for the inauguration ceremony scheduled in January. At the start of the next year, Donald Trump will be taking over the role of US President from Joe Biden, and his swearing-in ceremony is reportedly going to be one of the grandest ones in US history.

Luigi Mangione comes from a well-known and wealthy family, thousands of dollars have been donated anonymously online to support his defence against charges related to the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. As of Wednesday afternoon, one fundraiser on GiveSendGo, a Christian-based free speech fundraising platform, had raised over $31,000 towards a $200,000 target. A recently established December 4th Legal Committee, perhaps alluding to the shooting date, established the New Jersey-based fund, as quoted in a report by USA Today. Organisers on GiveSendGo have written directly to Mangione in jail to determine how he would like to use the funds. If he rejects them, the money would be donated to legal funds for other U.S. political prisoners.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund

Instagram influencer decided to adopt an unconventional approach by taking up the “24-hour begging challenge.” He posed as a beggar on the streets of Kolkata to explore how much money he could earn in a day by just begging. Pantha Deb, a Bengali vlogger shared a video of his begging experience on the streets of Kolkata. The clip begins with the influencer explaining his concept to his followers. Dressed in a torn T-shirt and jeans, he takes up a spot beneath a bridge, holding a bowl to collect donations from passers-by. The footage documents the varied reactions of people as they encounter him begging on the streets. While some offered money, others walked past without engaging. He started off by earning Rs 20, then earned Rs 4 from two persons and lastly, he was given Rs 10 currency, making a total of Rs 34. At the conclusion of the day-long experiment, the influencer donated all the money he had collected to an elderly homeless woman, adding a compassionate touch to the project. The video has sparked conversations among viewers, highlighting both the lengths influencers go to for content and the socio-economic realities faced by those living on the streets.

Ashton Kutcher explained his and his ex-wife Mila Kunis's lack of intention to establish trust funds for their children. Due to their extremely successful acting careers, Ashton Kutcher and his wife Mila Kunis are said to have a combined net worth of $275 million; however, they have no plans to establish trust funds for their children in the future. The That '70s Show star previously stated that he and Kunis will not be providing their children with an allowance because they intend to instil a work ethic in them. This week, he claimed that toxic masculinity is the reason he raises his two young children differently, as quoted in a report by Express The US.

Wayanad landslide survivors and carrying out «fake propaganda» against the union government. The saffron party said that the Narendra Modi government has provided sufficient funds to Kerala through the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and the the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF). «The Pinarayi government is sitting on available funds and blames the Centre,» senior BJP leader and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar alleged in a social media post. In a hard-hitting X post, he said the Centre has allocated over Rs 500 crore for this purpose through SDRF, which already has a balance of approximately Rs 700 crore.

The sum is a fraction of Musk's wealth. But it is nonetheless a staggering amount from a single donor, who poured the cash into allied groups and is now playing a role in helping shape the next administration. One of Musk's most brazen moves — which emerged only Thursday — was spending $20 million to prop up a super political action committee that was named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late liberal Supreme Court justice, but that sought to help Trump by softening his anti-abortion positions.