‘Highly secure’ Apple has a fake-loan-app infestation too
The electronics giant touts security and privacy as one of its strongest USPs, but seems to have missed the potential for misuse inside its own ecosystem
Temu changed its seller policies. And wiped $50B off parent PDD’s market value
The e-commerce sensation’s disgruntled vendors are jumping ship, hurting its growth. So, PDD has paused dividend payouts to shareholders
Inside the half-truths of corporate India’s sustainability claims
Sebi’s transparency drive is thwarted by companies’ knack for hiding bad news in BRSR reports, all while they navigate a shoddily built framework and no real oversight
Flipkart’s problem with 15-minute delivery: it’s great at two-day shipping
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Amazon got rid of its largest seller only to replace it with other ‘preferred’ sellers
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There’s no business like the defence business. Ask the $400M company that has little to do with it
Unimech takes the IPO route to become a pricey Indian defence stock. Except its business, like most of its peers’, is hardly Indian or even defence
From Masters’ Union to Tetr, Pratham Mittal has carved out a whole new market for himself
Pratham Mittal is at the helm of a brand-new organisation. What lessons will he carry from Masters Union?
Blinkit and Instamart have the government in their corner. Unlike Amazon
Pricing, profits, ownership—they all have a role to play
What happens when you bring Rs 2 crore to the Delhi-NCR house hunt?
Young Indians are leading the premium housing boom in major cities, but Delhi-NCR’s sky-high prices are making even the well-off feel broke
Looking beyond India
You can buy an EV in China. But can you afford to insure it?
Malaysia’s coffee giant Zus wants to outcool Starbucks in the Philippines
Indonesia’s clean energy sector pins hopes on new regime as ‘ambivalent’ incumbents exit
80K jobs and billions of dollars at stake in the Philippines’ crime-infested gambling industry clean-up
Sea Ltd’s stock soars on Shopee’s growth. But Tiktok and Temu loom large
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It's the world’s most powerful fintech, and yet it failed to capitalise on the world’s second largest startup market—India
Sky-high real estate prices in Delhi NCR are making even the well-off feel broke
Red tape and lawsuits: Big tech has a big problem
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A cab driver’s rage against Uber, Amazon, and Zomato’s machine is redefining India’s trade unions
Is the golden era of the (software) engineer over?
The rise of the ‘chief value extractor’—or what startups want their CFO to be
An ignored Code on Social Security leaves more than 7M gig workers in the lurch
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He founded a unicorn. Got bored. Now wants to digitise 60,000+ hospitals
Rizwan Koita, who rode the Obamacare wave as Citiustech CEO, is plumbing Indian healthcare as NABH chairman. He agrees that health services options “should be like Zomato”
Health fintechs pave a new cashless path. Destination: Rs 48,000 crore. Target: India’s ‘missing middle’
IVF treatment can break the bank. So how are states offering it for “free”?
India’s fertility rate has dropped below the replacement level. To bandage the issue, states are promising “free” IVF, but experts warn the devil’s in the details
How an Indian IVF chain became a global giant
How many hospitals can PE firms buy before patients say, ‘Enough!’?
With 18 buyout deals and counting, PE firms' hunger for Indian healthcare assets will only increase. State and central governments are increasingly choosing to become just payers, but they can’t afford to be onlookers
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