Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Slack, which was acquired by Salesforce last year, will leave the company next month. A few other top figures also call it a day.

The Irish data authority DPC has fined Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, €265 million. The company was fined because a dataset full of Facebook personal data was made available online.

A cyber attack hit the European Parliament on Wednesday afternoon. The pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claims to be behind it, says parliament speaker Roberta Metsola. She links it to parliament’s decision earlier in the day to label Russia a sponsor of terrorism.

The United Kingdom’s dependence on cheap foreign labour must end. That is what Labor leader Kier Starmer said at a meeting of the large British employers’ organization Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

Oil cartel OPEC is considering increasing production by half a million barrels daily at its meeting in December. This was reported by the American business newspaper The Wall Street Journal based on sources at OPEC.

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has laid off more than 24 employees and freelancers in the past year for illegally taking over the accounts of users of the social media platform.

The large American retailer Walmart gained 5.8 percent on the stock exchanges in New York on Tuesday. The supermarket group raised its full-year outlook thanks to strong results in the past quarter.

London has lost its title of largest stock exchange in Europe to Paris. The combined market value of the largest companies on the French stock exchange exceeded that of the large listed British companies measured in US dollars, reports financial news agency Bloomberg based on its data.

The European climate targets can probably be tightened. For example, the EU has agreed on measures to capture CO2 in forests and swamps. As a result, the Union would be able to reduce CO2 emissions by 2030 not by 55 but by almost 57 percent.