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Apple's iPhone 15 launches today — top rumours you should know
Apple's iPhone 15 event, the Wonderlust, is later today, where we might get to see the company's first smartphone with the standard USB-C port. The event is at 10:30 p.m. India time and you can catch it on Apple's website. Tarun Pathak, research director at Counterpoint Research, joins us to unpack the top rumours about the new features and innovations we are likely to see in this next iteration of the iPhone. We also very briefly discuss the Huawei Mate 60 Pro that's taken the industry by surprise, and Apple's complicated challenges in China
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Inside our family business issue—Gujarat special
Every year, we come up with a special issue highlighting the contribution of family businesses to India's economic and cultural growth. This year the focus is on Gujarat—a state that has given us big names such as Ambani, Adani, Lalbhais of Arvind, Modis of Cadilla Pharmaceuticals, Engineers of Astral, and many others. In this podcast, Naandika Tripathi and Naini Thaker talk about their experience anchoring the issue and writing the stories about the impact of these family businesses.
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GE HealthCare's Roland Rott on the company's medical AI efforts in India
Rolant Rott, president and CEO of GE HealthCare's ultrasound business, talks about how while much has advanced in healthcare in India, the market is also ripe for technology-led disruptions on multiple fronts—from access and affordability to delivery of precision care based on AI-led solutions that can provide insights from data that was not possible earlier. Roland also spoke about the work being done by GE HealthCare's 1,800-strong team at its India Technology Center in Bengaluru, the company's biggest R&D facility outside the US
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Reliance, Tata strike deep AI partnerships with Nvidia — what can we expect?
Reliance and Tata group announced plans last week to build massive AI infrastructure and our own large language models, using powerful chips and technologies from Nvidia, which currently has a near monopoly as a supplier of these GPUs. Atul Srivastava, engagement manager at the consultancy Zinnov, joins us today to unpack how these partnerships between Nvidia and two of India's biggest conglomerates, which together touch some 800 million people in some way, could make India a force in the global race to build AI at scale
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Is it time to cut back on smallcaps and midcaps?
The rise of India's smallcap and midcap stocks in recent times is getting into "extreme territory," a JPMorgan Chase analyst told Bloomberg in a report on Sep. 6. The Nifty Midcap 100 Index has risen 37 percent from a March low, compared with a 16 percent gain in the blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 Index, sending the ratio between the two to an all-time high, Bloomberg noted in the same report. Forbes India's Nasrin Sultana and Samar Srivastava explain what's going on and what the retail investor needs to take note of
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Dr Reddy's vs Torrent? Race to Cipla acquisition heats up
Pharmaceutical giant Cipla is reportedly exploring a stake sale, and new contenders are cropping up in an intense competition. International private equity firm Blackstone has expressed interest, as has India's own Torrent Pharma, and the newest in the race is Dr Reddy's Laboratories, in a joint bid with Bain Capital. Who will take the pie, and what factors come in to play? Pharma analyst Purvi Shah, deputy vice president at Kotak Securities, lays down the nitty-gritties
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Decoding IDFC First Bank's stock market rally
Shares of IDFC First Bank hit a record high, breaching the Rs100-mark for the first time on Tuesday. What triggered this rise and can it sustain? Forbes India's Salil Panchal and Nasrin Sultana give us their outlook
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Deep Tech India: Aditya Bhatia on passion for furniture design to robotics for SMBs
As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, this is episode seven in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and VC investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. In today's episode, Aditya Bhatia, an NID alumnus and co-founder of Orangewood Labs, a US-based venture backed by investors including Y Combinator, with its R&D in India, talks about how he and his co-founders, Akash Bansal and Abhinav Das, want to make robotics-based automation much more accessible to small and medium sized businesses
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After Uday Kotak's shock resignation, what's next for Kotak Mahindra Bank?
In a surprise move over the weekend, veteran banker Uday Kotak resigned as CEO and MD of Kotak Mahindra Bank, months ahead of his term ending on December 31st. Why did this happen, and who will take over next? Forbes India's seasoned banking reporter Salil Panchal makes some educated guesses on today's episode, and also talks about Kotak's somewhat fraught relationship with the RBI
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Will Jet Airways fly again?
India's aircraft fleet is down by almost 450 planes, because of beleaguered airlines and failed engines. Mark Martin, founder and CEO of aviation consultancy Martin Consulting, joins in to give us the big picture on where India's aviation sector is, the problems that plague it, and why a fresh infusion of Rs100 cr in Jet Airways is not enough. When will we see the airline take the skies, and why is it more necessary than ever that it does? Tune in to find out
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Deep Tech India: Amar Sri Vatsavaya on BluJ's plan for a 10-seater, 1,000 km hydrogen electric aircraft
As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, this is episode six in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. In today's episode, Maruthi Amardeep Sri Vatsavaya, co-founder and CEO of BluJ Aerospace, talks about how he and his friend Utham Kumar Dharmapuri want to build a 10-seater hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft that has a range of up to 1,000 km, by 2028. But first, BluJ is only months away from a commercial drone with a 100 kg payload capacity