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Why China's hated tech titan decided to play nice
No longer Public Enemy No. 1, Tencent now enjoys a status akin to an enlightened ruler of an expansive tech empire, with a big chunk of the Chinese internet industry now belonging to what's known as the Tencent ecosystem
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News By Numbers: Paytm's $3 billion IPO is on the horizon
A look at the key numbers of the mobile wallet-to-fintech decacorn
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How Tata Motors became India's third-largest carmaker
From a paltry 4.8 percent market share in FY20, Tata Motors today has a market share of over 9 percent. The company, with a 69 percent growth in sales in FY21, is now busy scripting a remarkable turnaround
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Naomi Osaka and the changing power dynamics in sports
Intentionally or not, Osaka stands at the leading edge of a broad, transformational movement in athlete empowerment, and what she does with this role will say a great deal about the power shift, for better or worse
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How the world ran out of everything
As the pandemic hampered factory operations and sown chaos in global shipping, many economies around the world have been bedevilled by shortages of a vast range of goods, from electronics to lumber to clothing
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From ride-hailing to micro-blogging, how Aprameya Radhakrishna flew the Koo
In 2015, the founder of TaxiForSure had no choice but to sell the capital-starved startup to rival Ola. The serial entrepreneur learnt his lesson: Start a business that doesn't guzzle capital—and it helps if it's an early (desi) bird
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News By Numbers: India's GDP contracts for the first time in 40 years, sharpest since 1950s
A snapshot of the key annual and fourth quarter GDP figures, and fiscal numbers released Monday, reveals the strain of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy amid the devastating second wave
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Delhi reopens a crack amid gloomy economic forecast for India
On Monday, India released a new set of numbers that showed the country's economy grew by 1.6% for the three-month period ending in March
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China says it will allow couples to have 3 children, up from 2
The country's total fertility rate—an estimate of the number of children born over a woman's lifetime—now stands at 1.3, well below the replacement rate of 2.1, raising the possibility of a shrinking population over time
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Paytm, kicking off $3 billion Indian IPO in July, does not rule out potential US listing later
Billionaire Vijay Shekhar Sharma, who always wanted to get to breakeven before taking his company public, is now looking at a timeline where the IPO happens first. The listing could see Chinese investor Alibaba Group dilute its stake or even exit India's most valuable startup
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In a world let loose, video game-makers are 'doubling down'
Video game companies are among the pandemic winners that are declaring they still plan to go full steam ahead, even as the coronavirus lockdowns that powered their businesses over the past 15 months have largely been lifted