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Car services and repair platform GoMechanic, which was on the verge of collapse about a year-and-a-half ago, on Tuesday said it achieved operational profit in the June 2024 quarter under the new management. The company was acquired by Servizzy, a subsidiary of the Lifelong Group, in March 2023 after anomalies in its financial records were found under previous management and the firm was put on sale by the investors. Under the new management, GoMechanic has posted a revenue of Rs 210 crore in the financial year 2023-24 and a revenue of Rs 85 crore in the April-June 2024 quarter.

Countries around the world are looking for ways in which to address the challenge of competition in the digital world. In America, there are a number of bills before the US Congress seeking to provide legislative avenues through which this problem can be tackled. Both the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have initiated a number of high profile antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech companies.

Mint dives into the updated details to understand what this means for startup founders in India. The rule mandates entrepreneurs to be either living abroad or already within the US. Spouses of these entrepreneurs could also apply for employment authorization after being paroled.

Donald Trump's vice presidential pick J.D. Vance has openly praised the work of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, a sign that the agency's broad approach to antitrust enforcement could enjoy some level of support from a second Trump administration. Vance, a Republican U.S. senator from Ohio, joined the presidential ticket on Monday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump officially became the party's nominee.

Russia’s new nuclear space weapon has spurred White House and congressional warnings about Moscow’s irresponsibility on the global stage. Russia’s move isn’t surprising, given its frustration over the war with Ukraine and its failure to contain or fracture the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Yet this is another chapter in Moscow’s long decline in space leadership.

The cryptocurrency market is witnessing an exciting phase as major coins like Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) show impressive price movements. Bitcoin is inching closer to the $60,000 mark, and Solana is predicted to reach $180, reflecting positive sentiments. Amidst this bullish wave, the Clandeno (CLD) Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is gaining significant momentum, attracting investors with its promising prospects for 2024. For more information on Clandeno’s presale, visit Clandeno.

Samsung, in January this year, brought along Galaxy AI—a suite of features that add AI across voice calls, audio recording, photography, general web browsing and more. And, in the past two months, China-headquartered Oppo and Xiaomi have also made moves to bring similar AI features to their phones, too.

Around three months after the president of its annuity business announced plans to retire at the end of the year, Nationwide has found a suitable successor to the role.

In a groundbreaking move that sets a new precedent in the DeFi sector, Zeebu, a leading Web3 payment platform for the telecom industry, is thrilled to announce its upcoming quarterly token burn event, governed by the ZBU Phoenix Protocol and its innovative ‘ZBU Protocol’. This is in a bid to revolutionize the DeFi payments landscape.

For decades, humans have fantasized about the day machines take over and give mankind their comeuppance (just behind those pesky Martians). Sentient technology has not yet arrived to conquer us, but Moore’s Law is in full effect, and machinery has surpassed humankind in its ability to process information and data. Now, thanks to machine learning, computers can evaluate alternative scenarios beyond our capabilities. What does it mean for wealth management, and how should we mortals use what’s coming to help us improve the world, rather than concede defeat to it?

water business AO Smith, for an enterprise value of Rs601 crore. Launched two decades ago, the water purification brand is part of HUL's home care business with revenues of Rs 293 crore during FY24. “This move is in line with our strategic intent to focus sharply on our core categories," said Rohit Jawa, CEO and Managing Director of HUL. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and HUL will continue to manage the business until the completion of the transaction, which will take about three months. The proposed transaction is to be undertaken by way of a slump sale through a business transfer agreement, it said.

In a policy paper published today (15 July), the investment platform urged the new Labour government to create a single ISA product incorporating Cash ISAs, Stocks and Shares ISAs, Junior ISAs and Innovative Finance ISAs.  Chief executive Michael Summersgill said the merger would be the first step in achieving the ultimate goal of moving to a single ‘One ISA' regime, which he argued would unlock £30bn currently sitting in Cash ISAs.  AJ Bell: The British ISA is a bad idea «By combining the best features of ISAs into a single product, the government can make it easier for people to ...

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airline has noticed this as a problem over the past few weeks and has started working on technological solutions to provide more informative and precise responses, to queries and complaints by travelllers, which would aim to address their concerns and anxiety about a delay, cancellation, or any other grievance. “In our evolution of implementing skai (AI chatbot) into various use cases, this is a use case we have just kind of started looking at, and over the next year we will make an attempt to help the humans responding on social media, get them augmented with artificial intelligence.

professional services firms in India combined now have over 3,300 partners — equity plus non equity — with EY being the first firm to exceed 1,000 partner benchmark driven by continued strong growth in advisory businesses after the Covid-19 disruption. In the last three years, the advisory businesses — consulting, deals and risk — have grown much faster — 25% plus-than the traditional areas like audit and tax, which have grown between 15% and 22% for most firms, as the firms continue to pivot towards high-growth advisory services, including tech consulting and implementation. With EY being the last Big Four firm to close its financial year on June 30, the combined revenue of the Big Four firms — affiliates included — in the last financial year has crossed ₹39,000 crore, according to multiple senior partners ET spoke to across firms.

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air-conditioning industry, valued at around Rs 27,500 crore (USD 3.3 billion), is likely to double in the next four years, Blue Star has said in its annual report. The Indian HVAC&R (heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating) is poised for exponential growth, said Blue Star Chairman & Managing Director Vir S Advani. This growth would be driven by factors such as «low penetration» of room ACs and the burgeoning middle-class consumers with «high disposable incomes», especially from smaller Tier III, IV & V markets. «The Indian The overall AC industry (both residential and commercial), currently valued at around Rs 27,500 crore, is likely to double in the next four years,» Advani said in his address to the company's shareholders in the annual report for 2023-24.

India is likely to see retail digital payments double to USD 7 trillion by 2030 from current levels, a study by Kearney and Amazon Pay said. In the report 'How Urban India Pays', Kearney-Amazon Pay said strong adoption of digital payments in online purchases has potentially led to a permanent shift in consumer behaviours, fuelling offline adoption as well. While 90 per cent of the respondents of the survey preferred digital payments when making online purchases, affluent consumers lead the way with the highest Degree of Digital Payment Usage (DDPU), tending to use various modes of digital payment for 80 per cent of their transactions. «Millennials and Gen X are leading in the adoption of all types of digital payment instruments,» it said. «Men and women both use digital payments in about 72 per cent of their transactions, indicating gender parity.»

Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative, aimed at boosting domestic manufacturing and reducing dependence on imports. Launched in 2020, the PLI scheme seeks to incentivize companies to set up and expand their manufacturing capabilities within India, thereby fostering self-reliance and bolstering the country’s economic resilience. At its core, the PLI scheme provides financial incentives to manufacturers based on their incremental sales from products manufactured in domestic units. These incentives are designed to make Indian products more competitive on a global scale, encourage large-scale manufacturing, and attract investments in critical sectors. The scheme is targeted at sectors where India has the potential to emerge as a global leader, thereby creating significant employment opportunities and boosting exports. To date, the government has rolled out PLI schemes across 14 key sectors, including electronics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and white goods. The success of these initial schemes has prompted the government to consider expanding the program to other strategic sectors.

NASA is investing in a revolutionary rocket technology that has the potential to revolutionize human space exploration by reducing the time it takes to reach Mars to just two months. By the 2030s, it is hoped to send humans to Mars, although round-trip travel would require nearly two years with current technology. Astronauts face serious health hazards during this protracted mission, including radiation exposure, the effects of zero gravity, and prolonged solitude, as per the reports of 'Yahoo News'.

Singapore City, Singapore, July 2, 2024 – Pandiana , a new meme-infused utility token on the Solana blockchain, today announced the successful closure of a $500,000 pre-seed funding round.