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Instacart in 2021, the grocery delivery startup's growth was cratering as its pandemic boom ebbed. The board of directors asked her to find new ways for the company to earn money. Simo, a former executive at Meta with experience in advertising, played to her strengths. She aggressively expanded Instacart's advertising business, begun in 2019, which allows food brands to pay for better placement in the company's app. Brands had questioned whether the ads were helping, so Simo commissioned studies demonstrating their efficacy, two people familiar with the company said.

The 2020s have been a challenging decade so far, yet the transformative power of blockchain technology offers a better path forward.

(Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet X owner Elon Musk on Monday in Silicon Valley, an official in Netanyahu's office said on Thursday, and Musk said their talks would focus on artificial intelligence technology.

GST and ICEGATE (Indian Customs EDI Gateway). As many as 106 firms have signed non-disclosure agreements with the government to access data from the ULIP, launched on September 17 last year as part of the national logistics policy.

Nishant will lead efforts to form synergistic partnerships with key stakeholders, concurrently elevating business performance through strategic expansion of the assisted channel. Nishant, an alumnus of IIM-B with a remarkable two-decade career, boasts an impressive track record of driving growth of Indian startups such as BharatPe and Zomato. Additionally, he has occupied senior leadership positions at the multinational FMCG giant, Coca-Cola.Nishant’s appointment will enable the company to establish increased focus and foster growth of this vertical.

Juspay, India's leading payments company, has partnered with Yes Bank to launch HyperUPI, NPCI's plug-in SDK that enables in-app UPI payments in merchant apps. Merchants can now offer simple “1-click UPI experiences" in their Android and iOS apps without having to become an official UPI app.

In a discussion paper, issued Thursday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has invited views on initiatives to increase digital connectivity, digital affordability and digital literacy. It has also sought suggestions on steps needed to make satellite internet a viable option for providing connectivity in remote/ inaccessible areas. “While availability of basic access infrastructure is a necessary condition for digital inclusion, it cannot be treated as a sufficient condition.

ONDC) has roped in Singapore-based platform Proxtera as its first international buyer app as part of its foray into international business-to-business (B2B) exports. Further, SignCatch and Rapidor, with Bech.app and placeorder.com respectively, will be among the first to join ONDC as international B2B seller network participants.

(Reuters) — Nielsen named company insider Karthik Rao as its chief executive officer, effective immediately, the market research company said on Thursday.

Consumer prices in Argentina have soared 12.4% in August, compared to the previous month, a number that puts the government on the defensive a little more than a month before presidential elections in which a right-wing populist who admires Donald Trum...

U.K. chip designer Arm Holdings is scheduled to start trading on the Nasdaq Thursday, in what is the largest initial public offering of shares in nearly two years

Deutsche Bank in June signalled its intention to push into the crypto sector when it applied for regulatory approval to operate a custody service for digital assets, including cryptocurrencies.

NavIC GPS satellite system developed by ISRO would be present in the iPhone 15." iPhone 15 has Precision dual-frequency GPS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou and NavIC) Digital compass Wi-Fi Cellular, iBeacon micro-location. It is the Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) which is developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Tech giant Apple on Tuesday officially unveiled its new high-end iPhones: the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max.

invest in India, asserted Hindustan Unilever's former chief executive Sanjiv Mehta on Thursday. «I have not seen interest in India among global corporations as I see today, India is at an inflection point,» Mahta, who retired from the FMCG major in June said. «The world is conspiring to make India win,» Mehta, who was speaking at an event organised by Institute of Supply Chain Management, added. India missed out on the first two industrial revolutions due to colonial rule, and was very weak economically when the third industrial revolution happened, the 63-year-old business leader said, adding that the fourth industrial revolution will be a major factor contributing to India's growth and progress. Stating that HUL has a healthy operating margin, Mehta said the company commands a valuation of over USD 75 billion because the return on capital employed is in three digits. He added the company is more valuable than global companies like Colgate Palmolive and Reckitt Benckiser Group as well. When asked about how to anticipate events like the pandemic, Mehta said the Covid pandemic was not unpredictable and scientists had indeed predicted it. The board of the company's parent Unilever had discussed a zoonotic disease like Covid in its risk assessment exercises, but never thought that it will happen and hence did not develop the risk mitigation plans around it. The rising temperatures and the kind of food we are consuming make us susceptible to diseases, Mehta said. He asked supply chain professionals to create organisations which have adaptability, agility and resilience. (With PTI inputs)

As Bitcoin continues its oscillating dance on the charts, it gives subtle hints of a resurgence. The premier cryptocurrency currently trades at $26,244, marking a nearly 1.25% rise on Thursday. 

A couple of years ago, tales of crypto millionaires seemed common, however, with the cryptocurrency winter season, these stories faded away.

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A financial advisor who began her career as a branch office administrator at Edward Jones is returning to the firm in Winchester, Virginia.

₹5,923 per gram. The government, in consultation with the RBI, has decided to offer a discount of ₹50 per gram less than the nominal value to investors applying online and making the payment against the application through digital mode. For such investors, the issue price of gold bond will be ₹5,873 per gram.

White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients on Thursday to discuss refugee resettlement and sponsorship programs, a White House official said. The CEOs will include Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Walmart's Doug McMillon, Pfizer's Albert Bourla, HP's Enrique Lores and others. They are part of a council of leaders affiliated with Welcome.US, a group dedicated to helping support refugees in the United States.

G20 summit, India, the US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). The G20 Leaders' two-day summit, held under India's presidency, wrapped up on Sunday.