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Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella – did not make it to the list.On Monday, C-Suite Comp released two lists of the highest-paid CEOs based on two metrics: “total compensation granted" in 2023 and “compensation actually paid."Nikesh Arora, 56, was ranked number four on the list of “Highest earning CEOs in the US by total compensation granted in 2023" with earnings of $151.4 million and was on the 10th spot in the list of “Highest earning CEOs in the US by compensation actually paid in 2023" with an annual compensation of $266.4 million.Tesla CEO Elon Musk topped the list with a staggering earnings of $1.4 billion in 2023. 1- Tesla’s Elon Musk - $1.4 billion2- Palantir Technologies’ Alexander Karp - $1.1 billion3- Broadcom’s Hock Tan - $767.7 million4- Coinbase Global’s Brian Armstrong - $680.9 million5- Oracle’s Safra Catz - $304.1 million6- Airbnb’s Brian Chesky - $303.5 million7- TPG’s Jon Winkelried - $295.1 million8- Trade Desk’s Jeff Green - $291.7 million9- Applovin’s Adam Foroughi - $271.3 million10- Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora – $266.4 millionArora’s stellar career includes stints at Google and SoftBank Group.

In yet another case of labour trafficking, an Indian-American couple has been sent to prison by a US court for forcing their relative to work at their gas station and convenience store for over three years, after bringing him to the United States under the pretense of helping him enroll in school.

«I think after a very-very long time I have discovered that the developers have been extremely mindful of bringing in more cash flows and deleveraging their position rather than continuously increasing the prices and somewhere hurt the sort of sales of their residential,» says Anuj Puri, Chairman, ANAROCK Group. Let us just get in a sense as to what you are seeing when it comes to the trend for housing prices in the Indian cities. Clearly, it seems that it has been on a rise, but at a time when we are looking at inflation moderating, how are you looking at the correlation between these two factors and what is the outlook when it comes to residential in particular? Anuj Puri: The residential market continues to surprise us. It is at a 15-year high and it does continue to remain very strong. The good thing is that we are not seeing abnormal price rise within the residential real estate market. And I think after a very-very long time I have discovered that the developers have been extremely mindful of bringing in more cash flows and deleveraging their position rather than continuously increasing the prices and somewhere hurt the sort of sales of their residential.

Infosys has been hit by another lawsuit over a cyberattack on US subsidiary Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS) in November last year. Kelly Collins, the plaintiff, filed the case in May in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, as per a court document seen by ET. Infosys had disclosed the cybersecurity incident at IMS on November 3, 2023. On March 6, a class action complaint was filed against IMS by another individual, John McNally.

Reddit said on Tuesday it will update a web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI startups were bypassing the rule to gather content for their systems. The move comes at a time when artificial intelligence firms have been accused of plagiarizing content from publishers to create AI-generated summaries without giving credit or asking for permission.

Star PMS fund manager Deepak Shenoy says he is investing in 5 strong megatrends in his Surge India Portfolio — manufacturing, energy independence, consumption, financialization of savings and infra growth. «It’s always difficult to find good companies, but there are enough tailwinds in a surging Indian economy to provide disproportionate growth in a few “maha” trends that we think are still very attractive,» he says. Edited excerpts from a chat with Deepak Shenoy, CEO and Founder, Capitalmind:

Indian-American couple to prison for coercing their relative to work at their gas station and convenience store for over three years by bringing him to the United States on the pretext of helping enrol him in a school. Harmanpreet Singh, 31, was sentenced to 135 months (11.25 years) in prison and Kulbir Kaur, 43, to 87 months (7.25 years) by the court that also asked them to pay the victim, his cousin, USD 225,210.76 (Rs 1.87 crores approximately) in restitution. The couple has since divorced. «The defendants exploited their relationship with the victim to lure him to the United States with false promises that they would help enrol him in school,» Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, Inditrade Capital, says fertilizers and agrochemicals is one sector where they have become bullish. He says last week's excitement was based on the fact that some GST concession was expected and that is, to an extent, unfounded. He does not think the GST Council has yet started deliberating on that at all. So, it will take a lot of time. Amara Raja has doubled this year already. Exide is up 80% and there are still buyers.

intelligence (ASI) is said to be the next – and final – frontier of AI technology, going even beyond artificial general intelligence or AGI which AI major OpenAI aims to create. But what is ASI, which the likes of Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever have been talking about, and what would it mean for humanity? ET explains. What is ASI?

Maxine Cole and her five sisters from Missouri were leading normal and sedentary lifestyle, with a wonderful relationship among themselves. And now, they have suddenly shot to fame by becoming a group of siblings with the highest combined age in the world, if the Guinness World Records officials are to be believed, says ABC News.

Cedar-IBSi Capital has secured funding from Middle East-based asset management firm Hades Financial Private Capital Group (HFPCG), the venture fund said in a release today. This is the second major institutional investor to get involved in this fund set up by management consultancy firm Cedar and fintech market intelligence platform IBS Intelligence.

In its first major report into the rapidly advancing world of AI, the central banking umbrella group said policymakers need to harness its immense power to monitor data in real time in order to «sharpen» their inflation-predicting abilities.

coffee and sit for six or more hours a day are at almost 60 percent higher risk of dying compared to coffee drinkers who sit for less than six hours daily, according to research published in BioMed Central (BMC) Public Health. Researchers from the Medical College of Soochow University's School of Public Health in China tracked over 10,000 adults in the US for up to 13 years. They found an increased risk of dying for sedentary non-coffee drinkers, a risk not observed among those who drink coffee.

logistics company Ecom Express is looking to raise Rs 1,424 crore (about $170 million) through a rights issue that is likely to be led by its existing investors Warburg Pincus, British International Investment (BII), and Switzerland-based Partners Group. The company’s shareholders have passed a resolution for the rights issue totalling 1.57 million compulsorily convertible preference shares at Rs 9,071 apiece – the same price at which Ecom Express did a rights issue in July last year, showed regulatory filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC).

«I would definitely advocate one to move into safe bets as well as defensive sector. It can be in IT or one can even look at FMCG, one can even have positions in pharma, so I will definitely advocate at current level. Definitely one has to be careful. You have to move into defensive sector,» says CA Rudramurthy BV, MD, Vachana Investments. Yes, the divergent moves are coming in for the broader markets, but you have Nifty Bank charting new territory altogether 52,000. CA Rudramurthy BV: See, for me, both Nifty and Bank Nifty now is consolidating closer to the all-time highs only and whatever clues we get now from the result season as well as budget will hold the key. I feel at current level, one has to have a wait and watch kind of approach. You have to be very-very sector specific and stock specific. I would definitely advocate one to move into safe bets as well as defensive sector. It can be in IT or one can even look at FMCG, one can even have positions in pharma, so I will definitely advocate at current level. Definitely one has to be careful. You have to move into defensive sector. Wait for result season to pan out. Let us see how even budget comes out and then take aggressive position. So, for sure, this is not the time to take aggressive position, not to be in high beta and one has to have reduced leverage and risk management will hold the key if you are a very short-term trader.

«Speciality chemical is a very different ball game. I mean, it has been struggling and there are intermittent signs of it reviving, but still it is very difficult as China is dumping and the competition across the globe is huge,» says Samit Vartak, SageOne Investment Advisors. For a lot of sectors we are at the peak of optimism, they are baking in the best in terms of order inflows, etc. A couple of places where there is still sort of a lack of belief or a bit of disbelief are those like IT, FMCG, chemicals, etc. Are you saying that perhaps it is time to bet on the underperformers? Samit Vartak: I am looking at companies where I am expecting close to 25% kind of earnings growth. A lot of companies in the IT sector or FMCG will never give you that, even half of that, so they are never really part of my portfolio.

«I think this is going to be a story for most of the midcap stocks, that if you missed out something, probably the valuations are going to be far more expensive and that is what the case here as well,» says Deven Choksey, MD, DRChoksey FinServ Pvt. Ltd. Let us begin by discussing Amara Raja Batteries because that stock has been charged up per se. It has doubled so far on a YTD basis and its other peer, even Exide, has managed to show a gain of around 80%. There is a latest announcement of another tie-up coming in from Amara Raja, but the big question is if you have missed out on the rally so far, is it good even for a fresh buy? Deven Choksey: Well, I think this is going to be a story for most of the midcap stocks, that if you missed out something, probably the valuations are going to be far more expensive and that is what the case here as well. I think the stock has already done the run-up in my viewpoint. Maybe I think the fundamentals are not doubted at this point of time. The growth and the prospects are also not doubted. But the fact remains that I think we are already scaled up on the valuation.

United Nations on Monday published principles for fighting online disinformation, including an overhaul of the advertising model of social media networks. «At a time when billions of people are exposed to false narratives, distortions and lies, these principles lay out a clear path forward, firmly rooted in human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression and opinion,» Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets

Flipkart explored a potential stake purchase in Swiggy about eight to ten months ago as two of India’s largest consumer internet firms sought to ally amid disruption set off by the rise of quick commerce, investors aware of the matter said. Once the talks fizzled out due to a valuation mismatch, Swiggy filed a confidential draft application in April to list on the public markets, they added. Also present at the negotiations was Prosus—the largest investor in Swiggy with a 33% stake—which was keen to divest some of its holding, the sources said.

Lxme, a financial platform exclusively for women, has secured $1.2 million in seed funding, in a round led by Kalaari Capital through its CXXO initiative, which supports ventures led by women entrepreneurs. Notable investors participating in the round include Yash Kela, founder and chief investment officer of Singularity Ventures; Amaya Ventures; Capri Holdings; and Aditi Kothari, vice chairperson of DSP Asset Managers, among others.