Tesla CEO Elon Musk has donated $5.7 billion worth of Tesla's shares to charity, the donation of 5,044,000 shares revealed Monday. The donation would make him the second-biggest US donor in 2021, behind Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates who gave $15 billion last year.

Spotify Inc (SPOT.N) deepened its investment in podcasting with the acquisitions of Podsights and Chartable, two services that provide greater insights for advertisers and podcasting publishers, the Swedish company said on Wednesday.

Google is developing new privacy-focused replacements for its advertising ID. The digital IDs in smartphones often help ad-tech companies track and share information about consumers. Google's move follows a similar move made by Apple last year that upended several firms' advertising practices. The changes could affect big companies that have relied on tracking users across apps.

Disney appoints Mike White as senior vice president in charge of "next generation storytelling" White will lead the company's metaverse strategy. The metaverse refers to the concept of new entertainment supplied by virtual reality devices. Facebook has made the biggest bet on the metaverse, spending $10 billion on virtual reality.

Tesla announced on Monday that non-Tesla owners can charge their electric vehicles at all Supercharger stations in the Netherlands, marking an expansion of a pilot program that kicked off in November 2021 with 10 stations. CEO Elon Musk had previously expressed interest in opening up the Superchargers to other EVs in the summer of the same year.

Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it is re-opening ticket sales for upcoming space travel to the general public from Feb. 16, driving its shares more than 10% higher in premarket trading. he tickets are priced at $450,000 each, including an initial deposit of $150,000.

Ransomware victims paid more than $600 million to cybercriminals in 2021. Conti ransomware gang accounts for nearly one-third of those payments. Conti, a ransomware-as-a-service operation that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has tied to more than 400 attacks, managed to extort at least $180 million from its victims, according to the Chainalysis report. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit against Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. on Monday. Paxton says the company's use of facial-recognition technology violated state privacy protections. The suit seeks civil penalties in the hundreds of billions of dollars, a person familiar with the matter said.

J.P. Morgan opens "Onyx lounge" in Decentraland, a virtual world in the metaverse. Users can buy plots of land in the form of NFTs and make purchases using cryptocurrency. The company says it can operate like a bank in the virtual world much like it does in the real world.

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has called for a bloc-wide ban on Pegasus spyware. The spyware was used to target journalists, activists and politicians in several European Union member states. The watchdog cited the spyware's “powerful’ features, such as its ability to be silently installed on devices.

TSMC's new Arizona chip-making plant has run into construction delays. Work has fallen three to six months behind schedule due to a mixture of labor shortages, COVID-19 surges, and complexities in obtaining construction licenses. TSMC originally hoped that the construction of facilities would have reached the point that it’d be able to start moving in chip- making equipment by September.

Twitter is expanding access to its Safety Mode. The beta is now available to 50 percent of accounts in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.