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Activision Blizzard agreed to pay $35 million to settle regulatory claims tied to its process for deciding how its disclosures to investors should reflect employee complaints about workplace misconduct.

The government announced changes Friday enabling more electric vehicles to qualify for a $7,500 tax credit.

The potential lawsuit could target an array of Amazon’s business practices as anticompetitive, according to people familiar with the matter.

In an email touting the deal, Twitter is offering $250,000 in free ad space to advertisers that spend as much on the social-media platform.

The company’s e-commerce services and cloud-computing business are feeling the sting from recession concerns.

CEO Sundar Pichai said the search giant would release some AI models in coming months as the technology hits an “inflection point.”

The stock is on pace for its largest percent increase since July 2013, when it rose nearly 30%. 

Quarterly revenue fell at Apple for the first time in nearly four years as Amazon and Google also reported earnings that disappointed investors.

CEOs are reasserting their authority now that workers are starting to worry more about job security amid rising layoffs. “This whole concept of working from anywhere went too far.”

Shell became the latest oil giant to post a record annual profit last year, joining U.S. peers in surging back from early pandemic losses on soaring energy prices.