K.P. Tiwari's Move From Systems Integration to Building His Own Business Software
After heading business applications at Team Computers, he started building the products he had spent years implementing for others. The newest, MoovMail, is corporate email made in India.
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Salesforce and Anthropic Launch Claudeforce With 37 Prebuilt Sales Skills Inside Claude
The partnership embeds Salesforce CRM data and 37 prebuilt sales skills inside Claude, with actions governed by existing permissions. The plugin is in pilot, with open beta expected in September 2026.
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Sunil Bharti Mittal to Step Down as Airtel Payments Bank Chairman, Shabnam Sinha to Succeed Him
Sunil Bharti Mittal leaves the Airtel Payments Bank board on 30 September after a decade as chairman. His successor's board record is in fraud, risk and technology.
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Minimalist Reports ₹690 Crore Revenue in FY26 and ₹26 Crore Profit in First Full Year Under HUL
Minimalist grew 36% to ₹690 crore in its first full year under Hindustan Unilever. Advertising spending rose 55%, faster than revenue.
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Fymble Launches Kyra AI as It Turns From Affordable Gym Access to the Harder Retention Problem
Fymble, which offers pay-per-use gym access starting at ₹99 a session with no long-term commitment, has launched Kyra, a Personal AI Health Companion built into its fitness app.
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RURTECH's Saddam Hussain Is Building Parcel-Level Satellite Advisory for Indian Farmers
RURTECH sends satellite-derived advice for individual farm parcels over WhatsApp. Its live log covers 134 farmers and 1,875 messages across three weeks.
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E3 Electric.AI Launches E3 TRION Electric Scooter Priced From ₹1,09,999
The Bengaluru startup's first scooter arrives in three variants priced from ₹1,09,999, built around an AI and IoT platform it calls the COMMANDCENTER. Its range and performance figures are company-stated.
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Marmeto Launches Elevate, an Analytics Platform Built for Shopify App Businesses
Marmeto has launched Elevate, an analytics platform for Shopify app companies delving into revenue, churn, reviews and installs. It is free for now, with paid plans promised later.
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Volta Infra Raises $300 Million at $2.4 Billion Valuation With $10 Billion Cloud Contract
Volta Infra has raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation and announced a $10 billion six-year cloud contract with an unnamed AI developer
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Sarvam AI Board Approves ₹698 Crore Share Issue to NVIDIA, Glade Brook Capital and Others
Sarvam AI's board has cleared an issue of preference shares to raise ₹698 crore, led by NVIDIA. The issue price implies no increase on the valuation set at the June first close.
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Yuvraj Singh Joins Healthians Founder Deepak Sahni's Stealth Healthtech Venture UN:BLOC
Singh comes in as an investor and founding team member at the Gurugram startup, which is still in stealth. Neither the cheque size nor the product has been disclosed.
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Terribly Tiny Tales Produces Netflix Series Musafir Cafe 13 Years After Launching as a Facebook Page
The series was produced by a studio that began in 2013 as a page publishing tweet-sized fiction on Facebook. It was acquired by Collective Artists Network two years ago for an undisclosed sum.
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Rapido Integrates Ownly Into Its Main App, Extending Zero-Commission Food Delivery in Bengaluru
Bengaluru users can now order food inside the main Rapido app rather than through the separate Ownly application. The service remains confined to one city, against an earlier plan that envisaged ten by this month.
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Snitch Acquires Womenswear Brand Berrylush To Enter India's Women's Fashion Market
The menswear brand takes over a Noida-based women's western wear label and says it will rebuild it over 100 days. Neither company has disclosed what was paid.
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Cactus Partners Targets ₹1,600 Crore for Fund II With Plans for 13 to 15 Investments
The firm has stated a corpus, a cheque size and an investment count for its second fund. It has not announced a first close, an anchor investor or a timeline.
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Amazon Cuts Jobs in Its Artificial General Intelligence Group After 16,000 January Layoffs
Amazon has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles in the unit that builds its Nova models. The cuts come as the company forecasts $200 billion in 2026 capital expenditure.
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Man Quitting ₹1.5 Lakh Mumbai Job for ₹4 Lakh Hometown Income Goes Viral
The post says he sold a ₹3 crore Mumbai flat and split it across land, a house, two restaurants and fixed deposits. None of the figures is independently verifiable.
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Former Tech Mahindra Engineer Alleges Wrongful Termination After Leave to Care for Daughter
A former software engineer says she was dismissed after taking leave for her sick daughter. No FIR has been registered, and Tech Mahindra has not responded on record.
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Flipkart to Enter Food Delivery With Bengaluru Pilot and ONDC Integration, Krishnamurthy Confirms
Group chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy said food delivery will be another use case on the main platform, starting with a pilot. The commission structure, rider model and launch date were not disclosed.
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Centre Approves Two Tamil Nadu Electronics Manufacturing Clusters Worth ₹1,012 Crore
The clusters at Manallur and Pillapaikkam will provide land and shared infrastructure for electronics firms. The same two sites were announced in March 2025 at a higher figure.
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Karnataka Engineer Pruthviraj P Joins NVIDIA Deep Learning Team, Compensation Reportedly ₹2.6 Crore
Pruthviraj P, an electronics graduate from PES University, joined NVIDIA's deep learning group in California. No source has been named for the ₹2.6 crore compensation figure now circulating.
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Gurgaon Auto Driver Says He Left ₹25,000 Supervisor Job and Now Earns ₹45,000
The auto driver told Zypp Electric co-founder Akash Gupta that he earns approximately ₹40,000–₹45,000 a month while educating three children.
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Deloitte Senior Consultant Quits After 10 Years, Citing 74-Hour Weeks and 5% Hike
A Hyderabad-based technology professional said he left Deloitte after being denied a promotion and receiving a 5% hike on a ₹35 lakh salary. His account is anonymous and has not been independently verified.
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Assam Student Bijit Ray Scores 502 in NEET UG 2026, Highlighting Tier-3 Test-Prep Access
Despite severe financial constraints and a lack of legacy institutional knowledge, an e-rickshaw driver’s son has bypassed traditional high-cost coaching hubs, signaling a democratization of competitive educational resources.
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Le'Udhaar Launches Repayment Automation Suite to Capture Value Across India's $200 Billion Informal Credit Market
Founded by grant-awarded entrepreneur Daya Juwatkar, the Mumbai-based fintech startup is raising up to ₹1.5 crore to layer AutoPay mandates, micro-debit systems, and legal frameworks over the country's vast digital cash transfers.
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Elite Mindz Launches ZYNO AI Suite to Introduce Natural Language Prompting to Enterprise Software
The New Delhi-headquartered software firm is leveraging 16 years of enterprise experience to deploy a prompt-based AI layer across ERP, procurement, and HRMS networks to capture workflows across 30 countries.
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Mitsubishi Explores Setting Up Semiconductor Manufacturing Unit in West Bengal
The Japanese conglomerate is exploring sites in Durgapur and Panagarh as the state government prepares a new industrial policy to attract advanced supply chains away from established western and southern hubs.
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TCS CEO K Krithivasan Says AI Will Not Reduce Overall Headcount Following Strong Q1 Hiring
Despite Chairman N Chandrasekaran recently predicting the deployment of half a million autonomous AI agents, the company's CEO insists the workforce will simply transition into prompt engineering and model management to service a $2.6 billion AI pipeline.
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14-Year-Old Founder Jainam Jain Launches AI Marketing Startup Mengo Engine in Dubai
Operating from the Burj Khalifa, the 14-year-old entrepreneur has launched an AI marketing platform into beta, highlighting how accessible application-layer software development has become.
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PepsiCo India Opens ₹1,266 Crore Flavour Manufacturing Facility in Ujjain
The 22-acre facility represents a major slice of the FMCG giant’s ₹5,700-crore investment pipeline, aiming to localise the production of its core intellectual property and empower its regional bottling partners.
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Bengaluru Overtakes Mumbai as India’s Top Hub for Under-30 Entrepreneurs
With 21 founders featured on the latest Hurun India list, the southern tech capital has displaced Mumbai by attracting a new generation of entrepreneurs focused on artificial intelligence, space technology, and electric mobility.
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US Lifts Export Ban on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI Models
The US Commerce Department has restored global access to Anthropic's advanced models, but the abrupt two-week restriction exposes the severe geopolitical risk of building Indian enterprise software on proprietary American infrastructure.
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WhatsApp Opens Username Reservations Ahead of Global Rollout Under New Head Kunal Shah
The Meta-owned platform is abandoning mobile numbers as its sole primary identity, creating a crucial privacy shield to support its new global head’s mandate to scale high-frequency commerce.
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Ford Rehires 350 Veteran Engineers to Fix Quality Gaps Missed by Automated Systems
After automated systems failed to catch real-world manufacturing errors, the US automaker brought back hundreds of experienced technical specialists to retrain its AI and halt a massive spike in recall costs.
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L&T to Invest ₹4,500 Crore in West Bengal Data Centre and Software Park
The engineering giant is allocating massive capital toward a 30 MW Tier-3 data centre and a sprawling software park to transform Kolkata into a major eastern technology hub.
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Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr Erase $550 Million in Medical Debt for 261,000 Californians
By purchasing unpaid hospital bills on the secondary market for pennies on the dollar, the Snapchat CEO and his wife achieved a massive 100x multiplier on their philanthropic capital.
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OpenAI Appoints Prabhjeet Singh as India Managing Director to Lead Enterprise Expansion
The former Uber India President will take charge of the AI giant's local operations in September, tasked with driving commercial adoption, striking infrastructure partnerships, and navigating regional compliance.
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West Bengal Government Announces Plan to Revive Calcutta Stock Exchange
After thirteen years of dormancy, the newly elected state government has proposed backing the historic regional exchange in its 2026-27 budget to decentralise India's financial ecosystem and unlock local public-sector value.
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MEMG and GLAS Trust Near Final Settlement Over Aakash Shareholding
Manipal Education and Medical Group and the US lenders’ representative are finalising documentation to divide the remaining value of the collapsed edtech empire’s crown jewel.
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Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs in Fiscal 2026 as AI Restructuring Costs Hit $1.84 Billion
The cloud-computing giant has slashed 13% of its global headcount, absorbing massive severance costs to aggressively pivot its capital toward artificial intelligence infrastructure and hyperscale data centers.
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