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Binance Holdings Ltd. is hiring 1,000 people this year with many earmarked for compliance roles as the crypto exchange’s annual spending to meet regulatory requirements, including US oversight under a plea deal, tops $200 million. Chief executive officer Richard Teng, who is visiting the US to talk to monitors and officials, outlined the employment goals for the world’s largest crypto trading platform in an interview with Bloomberg News in New York on Wednesday. “I’ve been a regulator all my life,” Teng said. “Government agencies are important.” He declined to say whether he has met with the securities and exchange commission during his trip. The SEC is suing Binance and wasn’t part of the US settlement.

Commerce minister Piyush Goyal has raised concerns over e-commerce platforms using predatory pricing to the detriment of traditional retailers. Goyal said the large amounts of investments being made by these platforms in India were to fund the losses that he suggested were a result of such pricing. “Are we going to cause huge, social disruption with this massive growth of e-commerce? I don’t see it as a matter of pride that half our market may become part of the e-commerce network 10 years from now; it is a matter of concern," he said.

Zomato has stopped using AI-generated food images. Artists and several others have also come out against such images. While there might be a compelling case for AI-generated images in some instances, platforms have to ensure transparency.

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The top-ten meme coin and soon-to-be trading bot inspired by Elon Musk’s pet Shiba Inu of the same name, Floki ($FLOKI), is the best performing large-cap doge-themed coin of the last seven days.

NEW DELHI : Sinch AB, a Swedish communications platform service provider, will enable rich communication services (RCS) messaging to users of major Indian telecom companies. After partnering with Vodafone Idea Ltd and Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, Sinch has now onboarded Bharti Airtel Ltd as well. Global chief executive Laurinda Pang told Mint in an exclusive interaction that Apple enabling RCS on iPhones has opened up an opportunity for the technology in markets like the US and Europe.

Piyush Goyal on Wednesday questioned Amazon's announcement of USD 1 billion investment in India, saying the US retailer was not doing any great service to the Indian economy but filling up for the losses it had suffered in the country. He said that their huge losses in India «smells of predatory pricing», which is not good for the country as it impacts crores of small retailers. Launching a report on 'Net Impact of e-commerce on Employment and Consumer Welfare in India' here, the minister lambasted the e-commerce companies, questioning their business model that has been impacting small retailers in the country. «When Amazon says that we are going to invest a billion dollars in India and we all celebrate, and we forget the underlying story that the billion dollars are not coming in for great service or any great investment to support the Indian economy. They made a billion-dollar loss in their balance sheet that year, they had to fill in that loss.

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Online fast-fashion giant Shein is suing its competitor Temu once again, accusing the China-founded shopping platform of stealing its designs, product images and engaging in other types of fraud

Online vendors have generated 15.8 million jobs in India, including 3.5 million for women, with about 1.76 million retail enterprises participating in e-commerce activity, says a report released on Wednesday. The report 'Assessing the Net Impact of e-Commerce on Employment and Consumer Welfare in India' was launched by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. «Plugging in data from our survey, we estimate that online vendors generate 15.8 million jobs, including 3.5 million jobs for women,» the report prepared by Pahle India Foundation (PIF), a Delhi-based policy research institute, said. E-commerce, according to the report, has been a key driver of employment generation In India. On an average, online vendors employ 54 per cent more people and almost twice the number of female employees, compared to offline vendors.

Solana’s promising GambleFi token, Mega Dice ($DICE), has now raised over $1.7 million in its ICO as investors continue to support this established name in the online betting world.

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kirana stores. After e-commerce, now quick commerce is eating into India's large kirana sector which comprises nearly 12 million stores, selling groceries and personal care and other items. People are starting to shift some of their grocery shopping from local stores to quick commerce platforms such as Blinkit, Instamart, Zepto and BB Now, which are often able to offer products 10%-15% cheaper than local stores. When time is money, especially in urban areas, people are willing to pay a little more to save on it. When quick commerce gained shape in India during the Covid pandemic, a large section of the industry had written it off. Their argument was that Indian consumers were not going to pay convenience fees, no matter what. Some even insisted that consumers would happily wait for a few hours or even a day, if that meant they would get their orders delivered free. Today, one after the other, leading FMCG companies in their 2023-24 earnings report state that quick commerce is now not just their fastest growing channel, it is what is driving their e-commerce business growth itself, ET has reported.

Avalara, a cloud-based tax compliance solutions provider, plans to onboard about 1,000 new employees in the next nine months across engineering, tax, content, sales support and professional services functions. The move is part of its efforts to establish India as a centre of technical excellence and its planned expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a company statement. “Despite India’s competitive employment market, the US-based solutions provider remains committed to enhancing capabilities in tax technology, legislation, e-invoicing, and global tax compliance by investing significantly in the country's technological talent,” the company said.

Commerce and Industry Minister, Piyush Goyal raised concern about the functioning of the E-commerce sector, saying that E-commerce is eating into the small retailers by giving heavy discounts on products. Goyal charged E-commerce players with predatory pricing and not giving a level playing field to small retailers. Speaking at an event for the Report Launch on 'Net Impact of E-Commerce on Employment and Consumer Welfare in India Goyal said, «What does e-commerce do we all think that?, they are making things so much cheaper. If I go to a store and buy a five-star chocolate or a box of chocolates, It's going to cost me 500 rupees. I can get it delivered on e-commerce for 350 rupees. It's because that's the item that had the largest margin. E-commerce is eating into the small retailers, high value, high margin products, which are the only products through which it survives.»

Mint delves deeper into the issue and what’s likely to come next. The telecom regulator sought comments from stakeholders on how to frame the terms and conditions to grant licences for services that fall under the new telecom law, which came into effect earlier this year.