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Star Wars franchise, a farmboy who became the galaxy’s greatest Jedi knight. Or perhaps it wasn’t. But one thing was clear: Skywalker Investment Advisors was looking to hitch its wagon to a star.

A lifetime subscription sounds like a great deal. It isn’t always. One-time payments with forever benefits are attractive to consumers looking to escape the sea of endless subscriptions, from streaming services to food delivery.

Gurugram, July 03, 2024: As the awareness and demand for term insurance gains momentum, Policybazaar has observed a steadily growing preference among High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNIs) for high-value insurance coverage. This shift is visible through an increasing number of HNIs opting for high-value policies of ₹20 Crore over the last few years.

IBDF), a body of television broadcasters and OTT platforms, Friday sought relief from the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) against an interim order by the antitrust regulator that had refused to restrain Google from imposing service fees on app developers. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had in March refused to grant the applicant and some others interim relief from Google's app payment policies until it reached a final verdict. The IBDF's counsel has now urged the NCLAT to stop Google from collecting fees on the transactions of apps listed on the Google Play Store, including for paid app downloads and in-app purchases.

tax policy by imposing a 1% Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) on the transfer of Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs), alongside a flat 30% tax on income from these transactions. The Budget also did not allow for set off and carry forward of losses. The taxation framework aimed to monitor VDA transactions, discourage speculative trading, and ensure steady tax revenue. However, recent analyses indicate that these objectives have not been met, prompting calls for urgent reform. Unintended Consequences of the 1% TDS

deepfakes of someone’s face becomes much easier, YouTube has introduced minor adjustments to simplify reporting videos that misuse your image without permission. One can now submit a request to YouTube to take down deepfakes through the privacy request process. However, the company will verify whether the content is a parody or satire. Not only that, the video uploading platform will check whether the person requesting to take down the content is a real human or a bot. In the past, one could only report these impersonations as being misleading.

AstraZeneca India Private Limited (AZIPL), the global capability centre (GCC) of British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca, announced an investment of Rs 250 crore ($30 million) to expand its Global Innovation and Technology Centre (GITC) in Chennai. The expansion includes adding close to 1,300 job roles focused on driving innovation, enhancing efficiency, and streamlining operations across the company globally. The facility currently occupies 334,000 square feet of office space at Ramanujan IT City, with plans to add approximately 180,000 square feet over the next six months to accommodate this expansion, creating AstraZeneca’s biggest global capability centre.

Supacell's first season premiered on Netflix this June and has already generated a massive fan following, with viewers already talking about the next season. The Netflix original series that stars Tosin Cole, Adelayo Adedayo, Eddie Marsan in pivotal roles, is the only Netflix Original scripted series in the US Top 10 shows, according to Forbes.

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SME IPO of Ganesh Green Bharat will open for subscription today and will close on June 24. The company aims to raise about Rs 125 crore through the SME IPO and list the shares on NSE SME platform. Here are 10 key things investors need to know about the public offer before subscribing to the issue. 1) About Ganesh Green Bharat

The founder of a firm that is being acquired by BlackRock is sharing the success with his staff.

artificial intelligence to enhance its processes across the project life cycle, company's chairman and managing director S N Subrahmanyan said on Thursday. To fuel this innovation, the company has launched a collaborative platform connecting aspiring data scientists with domain experts and technology champions to develop cutting-edge, future-proof solutions, Subrahmanyan said during 79th Annual General Meeting. «Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a game-changer, and the company is leveraging its power to enhance its processes across the project life cycle — from tendering to contract management to design, execution, and operation & amp;maintenance,» he said.

DSV A/S and CVC Capital Partners Plc are seen as the leading contenders for Deutsche Bahn AG’s logistics unit DB Schenker after AP Moller-Maersk A/S dropped out of the running, according to people familiar with the matter. Binding bids are expected to be submitted in August, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. CVC has offered to let the German government or related fund keep around a 20% stake in the unit and benefit from any future upside, according to the people. Rival bidder DSV could link DB Schenker into its freight forwarding technology system, seen as one of Europe’s largest platforms, the people said. The Danish company has made a number of acquisitions in recent years, often raising the group’s combined profit margins once a takeover is digested.

Meta has rolled out the Meta AI personal assistant across all its platforms — WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. It offers text and image generation capabilities, which will help users in increasing productivity and be more efficient besides aiding creative assistance. The Meta AI chatbot, which is powered by the latest Llama 3 model, was announced by company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg back in September 2023. Experts say that the Meta assistant may have a deeper reach than other personal AI assistants such as the Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini, given its direct integration inside social media platforms. The tool may find a much wider reach, especially in India, the largest market for Meta, and includes 314.6 million users of Facebook, 350 million of Instagram as well as 480 million on WhatsApp.

Budget 2024: As Finance Minister presents Union Budget on July 23 that will set the roadmap for the next five years of Prime Minister's third term, the e-commcerce sector hopes for a push towards Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and amendment of overall policy. Read More: Budget 2024 date: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present Union Budget in Lok Sabha on July 23 «My expectation from the Government of India is to promote ONDC further because ONDC is in a way becoming an e-commerce platform for the small traders of our country, so we should talk about the creation and amendment of the overall e-commerce policy and about the enhancement of platforms like ONDC which have been created by the Government of India...» said Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder of Paytm.

In a rare and unprecedented move, OnePlus has slashed the price of the OnePlus Watch 2 in India by a sizeable Rs 1,000. The OnePlus Watch 2 which went on sale in March at a price of Rs 24,999 can now be purchased for Rs 23,999. Interestingly, you can get it for even less on Amazon as the e-commerce platform has listed the OnePlus Watch 2 radiant steel variant for Rs 21,999 — a discount of Rs 3,000.

Iranians turned out in higher numbers than in previous votes to elect a reformist president who ran on a platform of re-engaging with the West and loosening the country’s strict moral codes for women. The country’s liberal voters, confronted with a stark choice between a cautious reformer and a tough hard-liner, shook off some of the disillusionment that had led to very low turnout in the initial presidential vote a week ago and turned out to the polls for a runoff that put the first reform candidate in office in two decades.

Baird has strengthened its operations in the Northeast as an industry veteran and former wirehouse advisor joins its ranks.

fraudulent activity related to deductions made from his account without any actual investments in a mutual fund scheme. Singh reported that despite the deduction, no investment was made, and a false folio number was generated, which did not exist. Following the complaint, Singh later removed his post and provided an update stating that the issue had been resolved and the deducted money had been refunded. Singh commented, «The Resolution has happened and we have gotten our Refund/fund money back with the correct value so that's a good thing on the Groww team's part. (We have all the details around this).»

Staking allows token holders to participate as validators in a Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism by locking their tokens into a staking contract and running the associated validator software.