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Telegram Premium is here; likely to cost $5-6/month

Telegram is among top five downloaded apps worldwide in 2022

Snapchat is testing paid subscription Snapchat Plus

The price for Snapchat Plus was listed as €4.59 a month, ₹24.99 for six months and €45.99 for a year

Instagram tests full-screen Feed, updated navigation

Users who are part of the test will be able to see videos that are almost entirely full screen as they scroll through the feed

YouTube Music launches seasonal recap playlists

YouTube Music introduced the 2021 Recap in December

Now, users can mute or message specific people on WhatsApp group calls

The messaging platform is also adding an indicator for users to see when more people join a group call

ShareChat closes $520-million round at $5-billion valuation

Company says coming year will be about capitalising on the scale and building robust revenue models

YouTube Shorts gets 1.5 billion monthly users

YouTube Shorts was launched in 2020

WhatsApp to let users hide profile pic, last seen status from specific contacts

Must select a “My Contacts Except…’ option to do this

Elon Musk expected to confirm desire to own Twitter: Report

Twitter and Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

How ‘shopoholic’ UPL adds muscle with takeovers

Homegrown agrochem MNC UPL believes in collaborations to drive growth and revenue

Birla-Adani in cement slugfest to be top player

With housing and roads expected see a boom, cement makers will be jockeying for the top slot

Uday Shankar: In the reckoning again

Former Star chief is back in the game with IPL digital bid

How ethanol push puts sugar stocks in a sweet spot

Ethanol blending brightens prospects and brings in possibility of re-rating, given the higher profitability of the distillery segment

Index Outlook: Not much room to rise in Sensex, Nifty 50

Key resistances ahead can cap the upside and keep the broader downtrend intact

What’s new in our Star Track MF Ratings

Presenting refreshed mutual fund ratings from this week with key value additions

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up