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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared as the balls honorary chair in 2012. Four years later, when Apple was a Met Gala sponsor, its CEO, Tim Cook, showed up in tux and tails. And Instagram supplied cash in 2022. The 2024 event is sponsored, in part, by TikTok, the social media goliath whose future looks murkier than that of Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker and other magazines, which has laid off employees and shuttered or sold off some of its publications in recent years.

US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington for hours grilled both sides with questions, probing whether competitive platforms such as ByteDances TikTok and Metas Facebook and Instagram are competitive substitutes for search advertising dollars.

As of December last year, the company had nearly 800 full-time employees in the U.S., Germany, Sweden, India and China.

Tether, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar, and blockchain analytics company Chainalysis have launched new tools to identify transactions associated with sanctioned entities and analyse the activity of major holders of the token, Tether said.

NPCI-built app to foray into ecommerce space via separate division. Despite marketing challenges, BHIM aims to improve user experience through partnerships and new initiatives like BHIM 2.0.

Those shares were equivalent to 61.5% of the share class, based on a calculation that includes factors such as the right to acquire more shares by exercising stock options and the conversion of Class B shares into Class A shares, according to the filing.

TikTok is expected to generate $8.66 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year according to an estimate from research firm Emarketer. While it is a fraction of the size of Google and Meta, TikTok kicked off the short-form video craze and prompted rivals to build similar features.

Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission started investigating Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and WhatsApp, for monopolistic behavior. The government has since sued all four companies -- Google twice -- in what it says is an effort to rein in their power and promote more competition.

Paytms chief operating officer and president Bhavesh Gupta resigned on Saturday in yet another top-deck exit at the fintech company. The Noida-headquartered firm also announced changes in its leadership structure. Paytm Money CEO Varun Sridhar will be replaced by Rakesh Singh.

Bhavesh Gupta resigns as President and COO of One97 Communications Limited, effective May 31, 2024, for a career break. Rakesh Singh appointed CEO of Paytm Money Ltd in leadership transitions at Paytm Services Pvt Ltd.