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11.12 / 12:03

Platform Entertainment Netflix Boxing film Universities Warner Bros audience The future of film, streaming, and power: Netflix’s Warner Bros play explained

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Earlier this week, Netflix Inc. made headlines with its $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

11.12 / 11:29

markets COST UPS Provident Platform Updates What the IndiGo fiasco tells us: The role played by the state is being taken over by mega corporations

Under India’s new economic order, consumption has become a dependency, mediated—beyond choice—by ownership of infrastructure. Last week, at Mumbai airport, I saw IndiGo’s embattled yet intact front-line. Yet, real authority was up in some cloud that no individual seemed able to override.A generation ago, you were courted by multiple companies vying for your money.

11.12 / 10:03

markets UPS Citi Digital Platform Strategy country With a $35 billion push, Amazon puts e-commerce rivals on notice

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Amazon.com Inc.’s plan to invest an additional $35 billion in India by 2030 is expected to intensify competition in the online commerce and prompt rivals to increase their spending on infrastructure, supply chains, and consumer acquisition.

11.12 / 03:45

Platform Netflix CBS Trade President Warner Bros social reports For Trump, the Warner megadeal talks are all about CNN

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The fate of Warner Bros. Discovery could hinge on a frequent subject of President Trump’s ire: CNN.

11.12 / 00:55

UPS Provident Booking Platform Airlines reports travelers From Airbus to bus: Private operators hope to retain travellers as demand rises amid ongoing IndiGo fiasco

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Private bus operators and online ticketing platforms are hoping to retain more users as travellers stranded by the IndiGo flight cancellation fiasco seek out last-minute travel alternatives. From local travel companies to electric-bus startups, everyone is vying for a share of a market that has lit up like a Christmas tree.

10.12 / 08:33

markets Target Digital Platform Mobile Sustainability Metro Amitabh Kant: Why REITs and InvITs may hold the key to India’s infrastructure leap over the decades ahead

Our ambition is clear. By 2047, when India marks 100 years of independence, it must be a developed nation: A Viksit Bharat. This means moving from a $4 trillion economy to $30 trillion.

10.12 / 05:31

markets Platform Election Trade country Courts Sporting Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Economists and financiers have compared stockmarkets to gambling since 1936, when Keynes warned of “the capital development of a country becom[ing] a by-product of the activities of a casino". In 1999 Jack Bogle of Vanguard decried the “Wall Street casino" where only croupiers got rich, and in 2023 Warren Buffett wrote that “markets now exhibit far more casino-like behaviour than...when I was young".

10.12 / 01:21

COST UPS Platform Research wellness reports Courts Cash-rich legal tech faces huge task: Making data machine-ready

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Legal tech is flooded with capital, but even as money pours in, structural roadblocks persist. The sector faces the unglamorous task of making legal data machine-readable through annotation and labelling—before the automation promise can truly be realised.

10.12 / 00:15

UPS Digital Booking Platform trends country audience Nagraj vs Naruto: Indian comics level up as Gen Z turns to anime

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI , MUMBAI : Indian comic heroes like Chacha Chaudhary, Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruv, Doga, Suppandi and Shikari Shambu are levelling up to face anime legends such as Naruto, Tanjiro, Goku, Saitama, Light Yagami, and Luffy. Millennials’ childhood favourite characters from Diamond Comics, Raj Comics, Amar Chitra Katha, and Tinkle, among others, may soon be seen taking selfies, using artificial intelligence (AI), and discussing mental health to connect with Gen Z and Gen Alpha, who have gravitated towards Japanese anime and manga.

09.12 / 09:33

markets UPS Waves Platform Fighting BURST Ford and Renault team up in Europe to compete against low-price Chinese cars

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ford is turning to French peer Renault to help reboot its European business, in a fresh sign of the upheaval being caused by Chinese automakers outside the U.S. “We know we’re in a fight for our lives in our industry, and no better example than here in Europe," Ford Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley told journalists in Paris.

09.12 / 09:33

COST UPS Platform President social Schools Courts Everyone knows social media is hurting children: When will policymakers act in their defence?

Creators of social media platforms have relentlessly pursued child customers and have ignored the technology’s harmful effects. Or so argue tech whistleblowers and at least some members of US Congress.

09.12 / 09:33

COST UPS Platform Entertainment Experts show Videos Ad fatigue crisis hits Indian streaming services: Repetitive, low-cost ads drive viewers away

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Advertising on video-streaming services in India is increasingly resulting in viewer fatigue as these platforms try to supplement plateauing paid subscription revenue with ad money. Users are bombarded with the same long and unskippable ads, often with glitches, that make the viewing experience tedious and disrupt the flow of the show.

09.12 / 07:41

markets UPS Citi Provident Platform Enterprise track Urban Company not providing investors instant help to make gains on stock

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Urban Company Ltd’s shares hit an all-time low of ₹125.23 on the NSE on Monday. While still at a premium to the initial public offering price of ₹103, it marks a 38% slide from the high of ₹201.18 on 22 September.

08.12 / 11:55

UPS Manufacturing Platform Software wellness Everest Interviews Mint Interview: Speed of value creation in India will be much faster next decade, says Peak XV’s Mohit Bhatnagar

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Fresh from its success of recently-listed Pinelabs, Groww and Meesho, their funder and one of India's top venture capital fund Peak XV believes the speed of value creation in India is likely to be much faster in the coming decade than it was in the past, its managing director Mohit Bhatnagar said in an interview. The firm wants to double down on bets in consumer, fintech and software sectors even while scouting for opportunities in sunrise sectors such as space tech, precision manufacturing, and semiconductors.

08.12 / 08:01

markets COST Aviat Platform Airlines social innovations Lesson from India’s aviation market failure: The Invisible Hand is theory but regulation is a must

Last week was yet another education in how fragile markets truly are. When one private airline faltered, schedules collapsed, weddings were disrupted, families struggled, students fought to reach exam venues and businesses scrambled. A logistical nightmare became a dark reminder of something even more profound: markets, especially concentrated ones, can turn predatory in a crisis unless they’re regulated well.Let us look at the symptoms.

08.12 / 01:23

markets Provident Platform Software Healthcare reports patient Health-tech shines as India’s $283-billion IT sector battles slowing demand

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Health-tech providers have emerged as the only bright spot in India's $283-billion IT sector, with companies such as Sagility, Inventurus Knowledge Solutions (IKS) and Indegene recording steady growth despite a sluggish demand environment. Tier-1 information technology (IT) services providers, mid-caps, engineering research and development (ER&D) firms and health-tech companies reported an average sequential growth of 1.6%, 2.7%, 2.89%, and 4.2%, respectively, during the July-September quarter.

08.12 / 01:23

markets Digital Platform security Trade information reports Digital market falters, leaves farmers with fewer buyers and weaker returns

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The government's move to upgrade its digital farm marketplace, meant to give farmers access to more markets and better prices, has run into implementation glitches, with Rajasthan reporting data mismatches, login issues, and stalled mandi operations.

07.12 / 14:15

markets UPS Platform Mobile wellness reports travelers Venture capital hunts for India’s next big consumer AI champion

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The recent success of several consumer tech companies in public markets has prompted Indian venture capital funds to back the next wave—startups using artificial intelligence (AI) to build products. Several companies have picked up early-stage cheques this year.

07.12 / 14:15

markets COST UPS Platform Strategy show performer Can Bhavish Aggarwal turn Ola Electric around?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru-based Ola Electric’s July-September earnings call on 6 November had some surprises for analysts and investors. To begin with, founder, chairman and managing director Bhavish Aggarwal slashed the company’s full-year guidance by a third to ₹3,000-3,200 crore, just three months after saying it would earn ₹4,200-4,700 crore.

07.12 / 12:35

markets Citi Provident ETF Platform Trade International Rupee at record low: Don’t ignore international investing for hedging currency risk

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With the rupee slipping to a record low of ₹90 against the dollar, the need to hedge your investment portfolio against currency depreciation is back in focus. This matters even more today, as Indians spend increasingly in foreign currency — on overseas vacations, education and other big-ticket needs.

07.12 / 12:35

Platform economy Pool Basketball audience cricket Sporting Mint Explainer: Can Dream11’s watch-party pivot change how India watches sports?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Dream11, the fantasy gaming giant with 250 million users, is rewriting its playbook. It now looks to recast itself as a sports entertainment platform, betting on India’s rising ‘watch-party’ culture, where fans stream matches, interact and hang out online.

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