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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups
A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
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Esports, streaming, to fantasy gaming: Inside our sports tech special
In this fortnight's special package on sports tech, we look at the various segments that make up this rapidly growing new-age sector: Casual gaming, Web3, NFT and blockchain-based gaming, esports, sports streaming, sports content and commerce, sporting, experiences platforms. And there's the biggest and perhaps most controversial piece of the pie: Fantasy sports
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Dissecting India's gaming pie
Though the Indian online gaming ecosystem has witnessed staggering growth—especially post lockdown—the need of the hour is to kill all legal ambiguities to help it bloom in full glory
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OneRare: Meet the world's first food metaverse
A first-of-its-kind NFT economy game, OneRare, cofounded by Supreet Raju and Gaurav Gupta, collaborates with celebrity chefs, iconic restaurants, popular cooking shows and food brands to mint NFTs of their iconic dishes, and is bringing the global food industry to Web3
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Dream11 turned fantasy (gaming) into reality. Now it's eyeing a diversified sports tech future
Dream Sports started off as a fantasy sports platform, and is now expanding across verticals like sports merchandising and experiential tourism. Will it help the company overcome regulatory hurdles the sector is battling?
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MPL: Forging a league of its own
Mobile Premiere League has grown at an explosive pace over the last three years. And it's not the fantasy games that are driving revenue. The twin superstars are Ludo and Carrom
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Urgent need to look at esports from a different lens: JetSynthesys' Rajan Navani
For a man who is so deeply involved in promoting esports, the 'taint' of gambling hurts, and Navani explains that there needs to be a very clear understanding and bifurcation of what represents online gaming, esports, fantasy gaming and real-money gaming
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Games 24x7: How Bhavin Pandya and Trivikraman Thampy turned wild cards into a winning hand
In 2006, the two cofounders played their best hand with rummy. The engineer-turned-economist duo, though, tasted success by building a multi-gaming platform, Games 24x7
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How Rooter became India's biggest game streaming and esports platform
From starting off as a sports community engagement startup to pivoting to streaming during the pandemic, Rooter has gone on to become India's largest game streaming platform with an enviable army of loyal users. Here's a deep dive into how they did it
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What happens when gaming meets finance?
With growing crypto adoption, blockchain and NFT-based gaming is coming into its own. But even as gaming firms are looking at leveraging NFTs using the earn-while-you-play model, the risks associated with crypto remain
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How Fantasy Akhada is finding its niche in Tier II cities and beyond
It was one of the last players to enter the fantasy arena, but Fantasy Akhada has been successful in wooing masses beyond India's metro cities
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Why fantasy gaming is not gambling, by Amrit Mathur
Digital sports engagement platforms are based on legitimate sporting events, and participation of users is possible only in real time, the Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports writes
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Why fantasy sports is gambling, not a sport, says Sunieta Ojha
It is modern-day betting on smartphones, in full public view. There is an urgent need for a comprehensive framework to regulate the gaming industry, the advocate-on-record, Supreme Court of India, writes
