Take One: Big story of the day
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How The Good Glamm Group is building a content-to-commerce behemoth
The conglomerate has acquired 11 companies and raised $250 million over the last year. Now with its move into the international market, a revamped organisation structure and a potential deal with Raymond's consumer care portfolio, can it sustain in the long run?
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Cryptocurrency: Is there hope beyond a dark winter?
Retail investors are trying to bravely ride out this storm of falling prices, shrinking trading volumes and high taxes by buying blue-chip cryptos and stablecoins instead of meme coins. Venture capital firms and crypto exchanges are confident that the sector will pull out of this tough phase
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Gennova Biopharmaceuticals has become India's first mRNA Covid-19 vaccine maker. Does it have any relevance now though?
Gemcovac-19 is built on a platform that can be tweaked to make vaccines for future pandemics, and can be deployed in lower income countries as the primary Covid-19 vaccine
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How the coding craze, led by WhiteHat Jr, lost its magic
Kids are back to school, and parents are getting disenchanted with this expensive extracurricular activity, which they once thought was the X-factor that would help their children shine
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Not just Tata Motors, Mahindra too has now built India's most valuable electric vehicle company
With an investment of Rs 1,925 crore from British International Investment, M&M's EV business valued at $9.1 billion—on par with Tata Motors' EV business
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Eating out: Service charge mandatory or optional? The debate continues
Restaurateurs stick to the legality of service charge and will continue to levy it, while consumer forums insist the new guidelines hold the force of law
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Battling stereotypes, Romita Mazumdar of Foxtale is now a proud woman entrepreneur
Romita Mazumdar's transformation from an i-banker and a venture capitalist to a 'proud woman founder' is a fascinating and gritty tale of how women entrepreneurs are forced to acknowledge their gender and then fiercely protect the tag
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Disney+Hotstar has lost the lucrative IPL deal. Is it now a fight for survival?
The OTT platform has competition closing in, even as it could lose millions of subscribers
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How Nokia became the invisible force of Indian telecom
After its bet on Symbian infrastructure instead of Android turned sour for Nokia's handsets business, Nokia Network was born and it silently transformed from a frontend player to a backend one—today "every call made in India touches a Nokia element"
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LIC: Tough road ahead as stock continues to drag
As its stock awaits a fresh embedded value, India's largest insurer wants to strengthen bancassurance and diversify its product mix. But changing the mindset of the organisation and its agents is unlikely to happen soon
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On the trail of how 10-minute delivery works—and doesn't
A bunch of local firms are vying for a piece of India's $620 billion grocery market with quick commerce. But the race is not just about time