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Carmakers are for now largely self-certifying whether their batteries meet content requirements that still aren’t fully fleshed out.

Reliance Industries Ltd., the oil-to-telecom conglomerate owned by Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, posted better-than-expected quarterly profit on robust growth across nearly all its businesses.

A Russian Su-34 military jet accidentally fired on the city of Belgorod north of the Ukrainian border, the Russian defense ministry said, leaving a massive crater and damaging homes and cars.

Twitter Inc.’s widespread removal of legacy blue checkmarks was sowing confusion across the social-media platform on Friday, with celebrities saying they were verified without paying, government-affiliated labels on some media accounts disappearing and businesses being told they needed to pay for checkmarks to advertise.

Italy’s minister for business and made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, said an Italian delegation visited Taiwan to discuss potential cooperation in the semiconductor sector.

SAP SE, Europe’s biggest software company, forecast operating profit for the year that was ahead of analysts’ estimates after it announced job cuts and plans to refocus the company on its faster-growing cloud business.

Crypto trading volumes seem to have surged last quarter as token prices spiked higher. But looking at the data more closely paints a different picture.

Companies that wish to advertise on Twitter Inc. are now required to pay for verification or reach a minimum monthly spend on ads, the social media platform told advertisers this week.

Welcome to Social Buzz, a daily column looking at what’s trending on social media platforms. I’m Brandon Sapienza, an Editor on Bloomberg’s Breaking News team which monitors everything from company statements to tweets from some of the most prominent people in the financial world. Here’s your daily look at what the Internet is talking about.

AT&T Inc. shares rose 2.6% on Friday, after HSBC took advantage of a steep earnings-driven selloff to upgrade the telecom company to buy from hold.