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Chasing Amazon, retailers are in a never-ending arms race
Retailers like Kohl's and Macy's are caught up in a seemingly never-ending race against Amazon. The more they spend to compete, the more their profits are sapped. And even when they succeed in attracting customers, Amazon responds with new ways of delivering inexpensive items as quickly and conveniently as possible
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'I Have a Ph.D. in Not Having Money'
Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive
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Blade flight review: At Rs 20,000, is the 41-min chopper ride from Mumbai to Pune worth it?
The New York-based company has finally begun operations on the Mumbai-Pune-Shirdi route, cutting travel time from four hours to about 41 minutes
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Paytm to invest Rs 10,000 crore in Indian operations, after raising fresh funds
Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma revealed details in a blog post; the move reflects the heightened competition for dominance of India's digital money market, with rivals including Amazon, Google and Walmart, and Facebook's WhatsApp raring to enter
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LVMH is close to $16.7 billion deal to buy Tiffany
The world's largest luxury goods company is close to completing a deal to buy Tiffany & Co., in what would be the largest ever in the luxury sector
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How Taylor Swift dragged private equity into her fight for music rights
In an open letter posted to social media, the pop megastar had implored her fans to intervene in what might otherwise have been an obscure music industry dispute
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The metaphysics of Kylie cosmetics being sold to Coty
Is this the harbinger of a new stage in the Kardashian-Jenner empire? And if so, what does it mean for the rest of us?
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Economy (Flexible thinking in a constantly changing world; Put the blame on economists), Technology (Will AIs take our job?), Business (Most watched YouTube channel in the World now has to survive), and Sports (5 Indian women dominate motorsports; The monk who sold his Ducati)
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'Baby Shark' devoured your brain. Can it get to your wallet?
The viral earworm, with just 18 words of lyrics, is looking to exploit its hit status and build a business around it, with the goal of transforming its smiling ocean predator into a children's brand on the scale of Elmo
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Inside Ikea-backed design lab SPACE10, ahead of India debut
The community-led platform will help artists, academicians and specialists across fields collaborate, and use design and technology to find solutions to everyday issues
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Short video is not an app or a tool, it is a new media format: Firework's Vincent Yang
Chief executive of the California-based startup that lets users create and share 30-second video clips, reveals his plans for India, especially how he intends to take on rival video app TikTok