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JPMorgan Chase & Co. acquired LayerOne Financial, an investment management platform that was spun out from Fortress Investment Group, as it seeks to improve its offerings for hedge funds. 

Tata Motors, on Monday, said that the board of directors has approved the proposal of demerger of Tata Motors Ltd into two separate listed companies housing. One entity will encompass the Commercial Vehicles business along with its associated investments, while the other will include the Passenger Vehicles businesses, comprising PV, EV, JLR, and their associated investments. This demerger will be executed through an NCLT scheme of arrangement.

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. dropped 1.7 per cent to Rs 155.65 at 01:59PM (IST) in Monday's trade. The stock hit a high of Rs 159.95 and low of Rs 154.85 so far during the session. The stock had closed at Rs 158.35 in the previous session. The counter had a total traded volume of 01:59PM shares so far with a turnover of Rs 8.04 crore on BSE. The stock traded at a price-to-earnings multiple of -220.02 and a price-to-book ratio of 1.9.

Ola Electric has emerged as the leading patent publisher in the country for the 2022-23 period. According to data from Intellectual Property India, Ola Electric has published 205 patents in the EV and EV-related technologies space, surpassing its competitors. TVS follows in second place with 156 published patents, while Suzuki, Honda, and BYD hold third, fourth, and fifth place respectively, with 78, 77, and 58 published patents. Ola Electric aims to raise Rs 5,500 crore through its IPO by issuing new shares. The company's draft papers filed with Sebi show that some existing shareholders will also be selling over 9.5 crore shares. Out of the funds raised, Ola Electric plans to allocate Rs 1,600 crore for research and development (R&D), highlighting the importance of innovation in its business model. With R&D centers in India, the UK, and the US, Ola Electric is dedicated to designing and developing new EV products and core components. Its R&D efforts focus on battery technology, software related to EVs, vehicle safety and security, controllers, motors and transmissions, as well as vehicle body components, artificial intelligence, and other related technologies.

₹40,000 price segment. The two smartphones - Vivo V30 and Vivo V30 Pro - will be the successors to the Vivo V29 series, which was launched in October last year. According to tipster Ashibhek Yadav, the Vivo V30 is expected to be priced at ₹33,999, while the Vivo V30 Pro could be priced at ₹41,999.

AI) and large language models (LLMs) must seek «explicit permission of the government» before being deployed for users on the Indian internet, has sent shock waves among companies developing LLMs, especially startups who feel it is «anti-innovation and not forward-looking». Several companies building LLMs, venture capitalists as well as experts told ET such directions can kill startups trying to build in this «hyper-active» space in which India is already late to the party. It will only allow big corporations who can afford additional resources for testing, and government approval, they argued.

The Indian Express that it was a daily routine for him to visit Rameshwaram Cafe. The blast at Rameshwaram Cafe was reported at 1 pm on Friday, March 1. The techie, who initially assumed that the blast was from a gas cylinder explosion was midway through his lunch when he received a phone call from his mother.

OpenAI «categorically disagrees» with the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against the company, according to an internal memo sent to employees of the artificial intelligence startup. Musk, a cofounder of OpenAI who is no longer involved in the company, sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman late on Thursday, alleging the company's close relationship with Microsoft Corp has undermined its original mission of creating open-source technology that wouldn't be subject to corporate priorities.

BSE Sensex logging a third straight weekly gain buoyed by strong macroeconomic indicators and renewed foreign fund inflows. Despite a volatile week, the equity benchmarks achieved record highs extending their sharp rally during Saturday's special trading session. On the stock-specific front, RailTel Corporation of India, Data Patterns, Force Motors, Jubilant Industries, Kalyani Steels, Tata Investment, Greenply Industries, Indo Count, Zen Technologies, Newgen Software, Schneider Electric Infra, and others are among the smallcaps that logged a double-digit rise in their share prices last week.

Rameshwaram cafe blast that occurred on Friday. Moments before the explosion, he had stepped out to answer a phone call from his mother. Recounting the close call, the techie from Patna told NDTV that he is a regular visitor to the cafe and after taking dosa he was proceeding towards his usual seat when his mother rang up. As there was some bit of noise around, he stepped away a bit to speak with his mother. Then there was a huge blast and black smoke all around, he said, adding that the noise was so loud that people were holding their ears. The software professional said that he will not hesitate to go the cafe again after it reopens and hopes there will be more security measures in place. The cafe, located at Whitefield's Brookfield area, is usually crowded with employees from nearby offices during the lunch hours. A Press Trust of India report, citing an eyewitness, said that at the time of the explosion there were around 35-40 people at the eatery. The blast, occurring between 12:50 pm and 1 pm, resulted in injuries to 10 individuals, including hotel staff and customers, who are currently receiving medical treatment.

₹1,29,999, ₹1,04,999, and ₹84,999 respectively, all ex-showroom rates. Furthermore, the S1 X (4kWh) variant is priced at ₹1,09,999, while the S1 X (2kWh) comes in at ₹79,999, and the S1 X (3kWh) is available for ₹89,999, all ex-showroom. As an added bonus, Ola Electric has introduced an industry-first 8-year/80,000 km extended battery warranty at no extra cost.

Hindustan Times has stated. As per the report, following discussions with Pune metro officials, Sanjay Kolte who is the chairman and managing director of PMPML has decided to merge the two ticketing systems, aiming to enhance service quality for the commuters. “In the meeting, we discussed how to merge PMPML, Pune Metro ticket system.

AdvicePay, an industry-leading platform for processing payments and managing compliance in fee-for-service financial planning, has announced a collaboration aimed at simplifying the payment process for advisors.

Scaler Academy has reported a nearly fivefold increase in yearly operational revenue during a period in which it raised no external capital. The company said its operational revenue rose to Rs 316.7 crore in the financial year ended March 2023, from Rs 65.6 crore a year earlier.

(Reuters) -U.S. private equity firm Thoma Bravo has increased its offer price for Everbridge (NASDAQ:EVBG) by $6.40 per share in cash, the companies said on Friday, valuing the software firm at about $1.8 billion.

Last week, the European Union (EU) witnessed a surge in digital policy activity that could impact trade ties with India. On 17 February, the Digital Services Act (DSA), which mandates increased safety compliance for online platforms, took effect. Also, on 21 February, the EU brought out a white-paper on ‘How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs’ advocating economic protection for its communication industry.

Snowflake shares slid 21% on Thursday after the cloud data storage services provider projected annual revenue below Wall Street estimates and disclosed a surprise retirement of long-time CEO Frank Slootman. The company, valued at $75.7 billion as of Wednesday close, was on track to about $16 billion in market capitalization, if losses hold.

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Silence Laboratories, which builds products to help enterprises and companies ensure data privacy through technologies like multiparty computation (MPC), has raised $4.1 million in a funding round. The round was led by Pi Ventures and Kira Studio, along with other angel investors. The newly-acquired funds are earmarked for scaling up its tech and business team, and to invest in research and development initiatives, the company said.

AI-powered innovation seems to emerge with every passing day, and in the latest iteration of this sequence, Adobe announced on Wednesday that it is working on a new proprietary tool called Project Music GenAI Control, which will allow users to create music using only text prompts and also edit these clips without having to use dedicated software. Explaining the idea behind the new AI tool, Adobe's head of audio and video AI research, Gautham Mysore said (as quoted by TechCrunch), “So this really gets the idea of, AI is generating music with you in the director’s seat and there’s a bunch of things you can do with it…[The tool is] generating music, but it’s [also] giving you these various forms of control so you can try things out.

an 8.8% annual compound growth rate in the factory automation market between 2018 and 2025 to hit the USD$368 billion mark. This means processes that once relied entirely on human brawn will be defined by precision no human could easily match. You may be curious as to how automation has moved the needle in terms of manufacturing efficiency.