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Gujarat government is holding talks with Foxconn over a semiconductor plant, a top government official told Reuters, days after the Taiwanese giant broke off a $19.5 billion joint-venture plan with India's Vedanta. «We are in touch with multiple prospective investors, including Foxconn… Gujarat is uniquely positioned to attract top chipmakers,» said Vijay Nehra, secretary of the science and technology department in Gujarat. Foxconn this week exited its project with Vedanta, which was also planned for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat, citing issues such as slow progress.

Dukaan has replaced 90 per cent of its customer support team with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, founder and CEO Suumit Shah informed on Tuesday. Attributing the decision to prioritising profitability, he said customer support costs reduced by 85 per cent while resolution time went down from over two hours to three minutes. «We had to lay off 90 per cent of our support team because of this AI chatbot.

Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) has onboarded IndianOil as its title sponsor for season 4 scheduled to take place at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Mahalunge-Balewadi in Pune from July 13-30, 2023.

Jayshree Ullal and Indra Nooyi are among four Indian-origin women who have made it to the Forbes list of America's 100 most successful self-made women, with a combined net worth of a $4.06 billion. Diane Hendricks, Cofounder, ABC Supply--one of the largest wholesale distributors of roofing, siding and windows in America-- with a $15 billion net worth, retained the top slot followed by musician Rihanna, having a net worth of $1.4 billion. This year's list has eight entrants, including television producer Shonda Rhimes and Insitro CEO Daphne Koller.

Apple is reportedly working on a larger iMac with a 32-inch display but it may not launch until 2025.

Tesla's job posting says that the company is looking for people to capture "high quality data that will contribute to the improvement of our vehicles performance." According to a series of job postings on its careers website, this will be a three-month stint. The position includes both day and night time shifts. Tesla has roles listed in over a dozen US cities, including Austin, Texas, Denver, Colorado, and Brooklyn, New York.

Previously, with the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.10.6 upgrade, a bottom navigation bar was announced. WhatsApp is currently working on new features to enhance the user experience. WA Beta Info recently published their design idea for the app’s redesigned user interface, which featured a filter button. The purpose of that concept was to alleviate the difficulty users face in accessing the filter feature due to the implementation’s poor user friendliness.

Vani Kola, it's 'The Office'. According to the Kalaari Capital founder and Managing Director, this popular mockumentary is one of the «funniest» and «most-heartwarming» TV shows ever made. In a detailed post on LinkedIn, the businesswoman with more than 1.3 million followers said that the show has been streamed for over 57 billion minutes on Netflix.

Katie Notopoulos announced on Twitter that she is now “fired” as the Editor in Chief of Threads, Meta’s new social media app. The recently launched application possesses comparable functionalities to Twitter and is managed by Meta, establishing it as the most formidable contender in the market. Numerous individuals, including prominent influencers and streamers, have already joined Threads, resulting in a steady growth of its user base. Initially claiming to be the Editor in Chief, Katie Notopoulos experienced significant online backlash following her controversial post expressing support for Nazi ideologies. The controversy began on Thursday, July 6, 2023, when a user named @riff_n_ryan raised a question regarding the app's creators: «Will you ensure the removal of Nazis from this platform?» This inquiry arose due to the concerning state of Twitter under Elon Musk's leadership, prompting many to seek a more favourable alternative to the micro-blogging app.

Well known online stock broking platform Zerodha was built partly due to the keen trading skills of Nikhil Kamath. During a recent podcast, his brother Nithin Kamath said that the company was ‘not meant to become what it is today’.  “I quickly realised that Nikhil is a better trader than I am because at that point of time we were trading money and I was also doing this side hustle of broking business. In 2008-09, I said if he is better at trading than me then why not he continue trading and maybe I can go to broking permanently," Nithin Kamath said recently during the ‘WTF is Health’ podcast.

Green skills in the U.S. aren’t growing as fast as green jobs, pressuring companies to get creative to find the workers they need to carry out the energy transition and take advantage of the historic amount of money pouring into climate technology. Generous incentives in last year’s U.S.

OnePlus Nord 3 5G officially arrives in India today, alongside a bunch of other devices including the OnePlus Nord CE 3 5G and OnePlus Buds 2r. The Nord 3, as you can probably tell by the name, is a follow-up to last year’s Nord 2T. The new phone brings a sizeable list of upgrades over the outgoing model. It has a bigger screen, more powerful processor, a bigger battery and a flagship-grade primary camera. Being a Nord series phone means, the pricing, too, is fairly aggressive for what’s in store.

Airchains, a Web3.0 middleware SaaS platform, has announced partnership with West Bengal’s New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) to transform land ownership and mutation systems through blockchain. This initiative aims to reshape land mutation by introducing 500,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) deployed on Polygon Supernets. Reportedly, the blockchain model will facilitate property ownership. 

The livelihood of delivery executives depends on the whims of the customer. On good days they chance upon generous clients who will leave a tip. However, one bad rating, or late delivery can lead to no pay. Be it sunshine or rain, delivery partners have to be on their toes, be on the go and ensure clients receive piping-hot food on time. Timely delivery is an instrumental part of the customer experience. However, it often takes a backseat when it comes to acknowledgement. Recently, AI-generated images of Zomato employees, having the time of their lives in the pouring rain have gone viral on the Internet.

Nimesh Patel is no longer with Carson Group, less than two years after he was named the firm’s first chief technology officer.

According to Cointelegraph, South Korea’s government is taking steps to protect cryptocurrency investors from collapsing by passing a new cryptocurrency bill. Supposedly, this step will help to avoid incidents such as the fall of  Do Kwon’s Terra ecosystem.

Zupee announced Kapil Sharma, as its brand ambassador. By joining forces with Kapil Sharma, Zupee seeks to expand its presence in the expanding realm of skill-based online gaming while also offering a wide array of engaging casual and board games.

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Riccardo Sibani, Chief Product Officer at My Neighbor Alice, represents the company on the OMA3 Board and contributes to developing a more interconnected metaverse.

The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has appointed Richard Teng, a traditional finance (TradFi) veteran with strong regulatory experience, as its head of all regional markets outside of the US.

The US debt ceiling has been one of the hottest topics in crypto over the past few weeks.