Business
- Business4 months ago
91trucks Lays Off 70% of Workforce, Shuts Stores Amid Growth Slowdown
91trucks slashes nearly 70% of its workforce and shuts stores, facing a funding crunch and slowing demand. Dive into the struggles of the commercial vehicle startup.
- Business5 months ago
Pratilipi Claims Revenue More Than Doubled to Rs 185 Cr in FY26
Pratilipi claims revenue more than doubled to Rs 185 Cr in FY26, showcasing the immense potential of local language digital content in India. This surge signals a major shift in how content is consumed and monetized.
- Business5 months ago
Swiggy's Indian-Controlled Status Bid Fails Shareholder Vote
Swiggy's bid for Indian-controlled status suffers a setback as a key shareholder vote fails. Its IOCC push is in limbo, impacting the food delivery giant's corporate identity in India.
- Business5 months ago
Indian vs Global Cloud Providers: Which One Should Businesses Choose?
Cloud adoption in India is growing at a steady pace, driven by AI-led transformation, startup expansion, and enterprise digitisation. A report by Gartner states that over 50% of multinational organisations will adopt digital sovereignty strategies by 2029
- Business5 months ago
Deepinder Goyal's Temple: Zetwerk & Ethereal Machines Named Partners
Deepinder Goyal, Zomato's visionary founder, reveals Zetwerk and Ethereal Machines as manufacturing partners for his secretive new startup, Temple. This strategic move marks a significant development in the global tech landscape.
- Business5 months ago
Meta CEO Zuckerberg: No More Layoffs Expected This Year
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces no further company-wide layoffs this year, signaling workforce stabilization and a strategic pivot toward AI. Aims to boost investor confidence.
- Business5 months ago
Industrial AI to Unlock $150 Billion in Indian Manufacturing Output by 2030 as Adoption Scales
Industrial AI to Unlock $150 Billion in Indian Manufacturing Output by 2030 as Adoption Scales
- Business5 months ago
Jio Platforms Appoints Akash Ambani as MD Ahead of IPO
Jio Platforms appoints Akash Ambani as MD for 5 years, effective April 2026. The company is restructuring its IPO strategy after reporting strong Q4 FY26 profits.
- Business5 months ago
Nvidia CEO Huang Joins Trump in China: Tech Relations Reversal
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's appearance with former President Trump in China hints at a significant reversal in US-China tech relations. Explore the implications for AI and global markets.
- Business5 months ago
Ghana Investment and Trade Week 2026: GITW and E4Impact Partner to Transform West Africa’s Entrepreneurial Landscape
Ghana Investment and Trade Week 2026: GITW and E4Impact Partner to Transform West Africa’s Entrepreneurial Landscape
- Business5 months ago
Alphabet Nears Nvidia in Market Value Amid AI Demand Surge
Alphabet is rapidly closing in on Nvidia's market capitalization, driven by a surge in AI demand and investor confidence. Discover how Google's AI strategy is reshaping tech valuations.
- Business5 months ago
West Africa’s Premier Strategic Ecosystem: Africa Build Show, MegaWatt Africa, and GITW 2026 Set for July in Accra
West Africa’s Premier Strategic Ecosystem: Africa Build Show, MegaWatt Africa, and GITW 2026 Set for July in Accra
- Business6 months ago
Oracle Layoffs: Workers Sought Better Severance, Company Refused
Discover how laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance packages, only to be met with refusal. This incident highlights the challenges of employee welfare in the dynamic tech industry during workforce reductions.
- Business6 months ago
Zee Sues Reliance-Disney Over Music Copyright Breach
India's Zee has filed a lawsuit against the Reliance-Disney merged entity, alleging music copyright infringement. This high-stakes legal battle highlights growing tensions in the rapidly consolidating Indian media and entertainment sector.
- Business6 months ago
The $218M Edtech Reality Check: upGrad, Unacademy, and the Art of Buying Cash
A 90% valuation haircut isn't just a market correction. It is the ruthless, inevitable consolidation of India’s post-pandemic learning landscape.
- Business6 months ago
Is Global Roaming Dying and What Are the Alternatives?
As international trade, migration, and travel continue to rise, we are also seeing a commensurate rise in the demand for international calls. From the late ‘90s to early 2000s, roaming services, which allowed users to connect to foreign carriers with their local SIMs (outside their network provider’s coverage), were the go-to option for international calling. […]
- Business6 months ago
We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse
A Voice Actor Built a Janky Website in One Hour and Crowdfunded $26 Million to Buy a Dead Airline. The Bit Is Getting Real When a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines and 40,000 strangers follow, the joke stops being a joke — and becomes the clearest signal yet that creator-led capital formation is graduating from meme to mechanism.
- Business6 months ago
From Snabbit To Sahi— Indian Startups Raised $204 Mn This Week
The Quality Pivot: India’s $204 Million Week Signals a New Era of Efficiency The "funding winter" narrative has finally thawed, but it hasn't been replaced by the reckless spring of 2021. Instead, we are entering a season of "Hard Asset Intelligence." This week, the Indian startup ecosystem pulled in a collective $204 million across 22 deals—a figure that, on its face, seems modest compared to the multi-billion dollar months of February. Yet, the composition of these deals tells a far more nuanced story.
- Business6 months ago
Smartworks Posts ₹17 Cr Profit In Q4, Revenue Crosses ₹500 Cr Mark
Profitable, But Barely: What Smartworks Posts ₹17 Cr Profit Actually Proves Revenue crossed ₹500 crore. Losses flipped to gains. A year ago, none of this seemed certain. But the real story isn't the numbers — it's the structural bet Smartworks is winning.
- Business6 months ago
Tata Electronics Just Hired Its Way to 75,000 Workers. Its Revenue Grew 1,673% in a Year to Get Here.
Five years ago, Tata Electronics barely existed. It was incorporated in April 2020, a vehicle without a clear purpose in the Tata Group's vast portfolio, generating negligible revenue. Today it's a ₹66,601 crore ($8 billion) business adding 15,000 workers at a single plant in Hosur, Tamil Nadu — and it's arguably the most strategically positioned contract manufacturer on Earth.
- Business6 months ago
AUTOMA 2026 Connects Digital Strategy with Industrial Execution
The industry that skeptics wrote off as a laggard is quietly becoming one of the most serious laboratories for industrial AI — and Amsterdam is where the serious players are comparing notes.
- Business6 months ago
From Corporate Life to ‘Number Science’: The Bold Bet That Paid Off
A former IT professional is turning numerology into a structured learning platform. Dismiss it at your peril. India's creator-edtech wave doesn't care about your credibility concerns.
- Business6 months ago
Pentera Cuts Jobs as It Doubles Down on AI-Driven Security
Restructuring Amid Strategic Refocus
- Business6 months ago
Microsoft Rolls Out Copilot to 743,000 Accenture Employees
A Landmark Enterprise AI Deployment
- Business6 months ago
Taiwan Stocks Briefly Top 40,000 on TSMC Rally
Semiconductor Momentum Lifts the Market
- Business6 months ago
Petpooja Faces Tax Scrutiny as Pine Labs Buys Shopflo
Petpooja Draws Attention From Tax Authorities
- Business6 months ago
Lachy Groom Bets on Pronto at $200M as India's House-Help Market Goes Institutional
A Bengaluru startup founded just over a year ago is doubling its valuation in weeks. The deal tells you less about Pronto than it does about where serious global capital is now willing to go.
- Business6 months ago
Jio's ₹7,935 Crore Quarter Isn't the Story. The IPO Math Behind It Is.
Five hundred and twenty-four million subscribers. Let that settle for a second. That's more people than the entire population of the United States and Canada combined, all on one network, all generating data, all paying into a single P&L. Jio Platforms' gross revenue for Q4 FY26 rose 13% year-on-year to ₹44,928 crore, net profit climbed 13% to ₹7,935 crore, and EBITDA jumped 18% YoY to ₹20,060 crore with margin expansion of 230 basis points to 52.4%. Refrr For the full fiscal year, Jio Platforms reported revenue of ₹1,72,317 crore and a profit after tax of ₹30,053 crore. Yahoo Finance
- Business6 months ago
BlueStone Promised 290 New Stores. It Opened 65. Gold Has a Better Explanation Than You Think.
When BlueStone filed its draft red herring prospectus with SEBI in December 2024, the store rollout math looked unambiguous. The company had projected adding 290 stores across FY26 and FY27. The Researchers That meant roughly 145 new outlets a year for a brand that had spent 13 years proving the market for design-led, digital-first jewellery. Investors bought it. Prosus valued BlueStone at approximately $950 million Indian Startup Times — just shy of unicorn territory — as the IPO machinery revved up. The growth narrative was intact.
