India Seeks Info on Coins Listed for Trade on Exchanges as Tax Body Mulls Levying GST

India Seeks Info on Coins Listed for Trade on Exchanges as Tax Body Mulls Levying GST

India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has reached out to a bunch of crypto exchanges operating in the country. The body is seeking lists of all the cryptocurrencies that are being traded on the exchanges in India. The tax authority of India is reportedly evaluating if the…

Elon Musk’s Twitter Investors Include Jack Dorsey, Saudi Prince, Qatar Investment Authority

Elon Musk’s Twitter Investors Include Jack Dorsey, Saudi Prince, Qatar Investment Authority

Elon Musk bought Twitter last week for $44 billion with the help of Wall Street bank loans and shareholders who agreed to roll over their interest in the social media service in exchange for a stake of the new private company. That means Twitter, whose shares were delisted last week…

Foxconn Increases Wages, Gives Workers Bonuses to Staff to Quell Discontent Over COVID Curbs: Report

Foxconn Increases Wages, Gives Workers Bonuses to Staff to Quell Discontent Over COVID Curbs: Report

Apple supplier Foxconn has increased wages and is handing bonuses to workers at its Zhengzhou plant in central China, Chinese government-backed media reported, as it works to quell employee discontent at the site over COVID curbs. Daily wages for employees, who are part of a Foxconn unit responsible for making…

Google Pauses Play Store Billing for App Developers in India Following Recent CCI Ruling

Google Pauses Play Store Billing for App Developers in India Following Recent CCI Ruling

Google announced this via its Play Support help page. Google has temporarily paused its in-house Play Store billing service for app developers in India following a recent CCI ruling. The search giant had set a deadline of October 31 for developers to comply with its policies. Google announced this via…

Elon Musk Fires Twitter’s Board of Directors to Become Sole Member

Elon Musk Fires Twitter’s Board of Directors to Become Sole Member

Billionaire Elon Musk is already floating major changes for Twitter — and faces major hurdles as he begins his first week as owner of the social-media platform. Twitter‘s new owner fired the company’s board of directors and made himself the board’s sole member, according to a company filing Monday with the…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX May Launch Starship Rocket System by Early December: NASA

Elon Musk’s SpaceX May Launch Starship Rocket System by Early December: NASA

SpaceX is targeting early December to launch its giant Starship rocket system into orbit for the first time, a pivotal demonstration flight as it aims to fly NASA astronauts to the moon in the next few years, a US official said on Monday. Billionaire Elon Musk‘s SpaceX has sought for…

Microsoft Said to Have Offered No Remedies in EU Antitrust Review of Activision Deal

Microsoft Said to Have Offered No Remedies in EU Antitrust Review of Activision Deal

Microsoft’s has not offered any remedies to EU antitrust regulators reviewing its proposed $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,400 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard ahead of an expected full-scale EU probe, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. The US software company is betting on the acquisition to…

Byju’s CEO Says Job Cuts Necessitated to Avoid Role Duplication, Redundancies

Byju’s CEO Says Job Cuts Necessitated to Avoid Role Duplication, Redundancies

Byju’s founder and chief executive Byju Raveendran has apologised to the firm’s employees for the clumsy layoffs in India’s largest education technology company, saying 2,500 job cuts were necessitated to avoid role duplication and reduce redundancies. In a message to employees, Raveendran said Byju‘s has been compelled to focus on…

Ethereum Co-Founder Believes Crypto Industry Shouldn’t Put Much Effort Into Attracting Institutional Capital

Ethereum Co-Founder Believes Crypto Industry Shouldn’t Put Much Effort Into Attracting Institutional Capital

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in sharing his opinion on crypto regulation, declared that he is “kinda happy” that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are being delayed. In a lengthy thread on Twitter, Vitalik Buterin discussed how regulations would impact crypto. According to Buterin, all regulations focus on either consumer protection or making…