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Indian telecommunications tycoon Sunil Mittal is seeking a stake in Paytm by merging his financial services unit into the fintech giant’s payments bank, according to people with knowledge of the matter.Mittal seeks to fold Airtel Payments Bank into Paytm Payments Bank in a stocks deal and is also seeking to buy Paytm shares from other holders, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. Talks are in early stages and Airtel and Paytm may not reach a deal, the people added.Shares of Paytm,…

Vishal Chawla / The Block: Google Cloud partners with the Tezos Foundation to become a validator on the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain, seeking to help clients develop and deploy apps — - Google Cloud has partnered with Tezos to act as a validator on the proof-of-stake blockchain network. Vishal Chawla / The Block: Google Cloud partners with the Tezos Foundation to become a validator on the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain, seeking to help clients develop and deploy apps — -…

The Karnataka government has informed the High Court it has introduced the 'Suraksha' app and in times of emergency the public can either use this app or call the 112 emergency number. A public interest litigation by NT Arun Kumar from Nagadevanahalli in Bengaluru had sought directions for pre-installed panic buttons in mobile phones. The division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Ashok S Kinagri appreciated the government's efforts in developing the Suraksha App and disposed of the petition. Read…

A group of Tesla workers in New York has sent company chief Elon Musk a letter stating their intention to unionize, according to Bloomberg. It could end up being the first Tesla union if successful, seeing as previous attempts fizzled out before organizers could petition for a vote. The employees involved in the campaign are in charge of labeling data for Tesla's Autopilot technology at the company's Buffalo, New York facility. Bloomberg says the group is asking for better pay, job security and a better work environment…

Two developers in California are looking to lure a buyer willing to do something no other buyer has ever done before in Los Angeles history – pay between $50 million and a $100 million for a condo. A deal anywhere near those asking prices would shatter a record in the City of Angels, where no single condo unit has ever sold for more than $22.5 million, according to public records.  A rendering depicts the penthouse terrace and pool at the Four Seasons Private Residences Los Angeles which is on the market for $75M.Martyn…

Japan adopts Web3: The country is working on policy and guidelines for stablecoins, NFTs and DAOs Japan Adopts Web3: With tight regulations already in place that helped insulate FTX Japan and its investors from heavy losses, Japan is working on policy and guidelines for stablecoins, NFTs, and DAOs as it welcomes a crypto future. According to the proposal by Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party Web3 project team, From the perspective of supporting the development of the web3 business ecosystem, including support of…

Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022.Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Food and Drug Administration is squaring off with anti-abortion physicians in an unprecedented legal challenge to its more than two-decade-old approval of a pill used to terminate early pregnancies.The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine asked a federal district…

The Justice Department is seeking the breakup of Google’s business brokering digital advertising across much of the internet, a major expansion of the legal challenges the company faces to its business in the U.S. and abroad.A lawsuit filed Tuesday, the Justice Department’s second against the Alphabet Inc. GOOG -2.12% unit following one filed in 2020, alleges that Google abuses its role as one of the largest brokers, suppliers and online auctioneers of ads placed on…

The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected ride-sharing company Rapido’s appeal against a Maharashtra government order denying it a licence to operate bike taxis in the state.Justices GS Patel and SG Dige disallowed Rapido’s petition, saying it could not prove that the plea for the licence was rejected by the government only because there was no policy put in place by the state.Rapido has been in the legal crosshairs related to its bike taxi services in several states, as taxis require yellow number plates to operate…

Fundamental aspects for seeking analytics and BI platforms, prioritize these aspects to meet the business needs. Software acquisition for data analytics and business intelligence can indeed be challenging and time-consuming. When choosing a vendor and placing a new solution into place, buyers must take a number of factors into account. The budget and the cost of a certain data analytics tool are two fundamental factors to think about. The platform’s functionality, or if it has the abilities the company needs to…