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India more attractive than China, says Invesco — here's some perspective

India more attractive than China, says Invesco — here's some perspective

After Foxconn's breakup with Vedanta, what next for India's semiconductor plans?

After Foxconn's breakup with Vedanta, what next for India's semiconductor plans?

Aneesh Reddy on why it's a great time to buy in SaaS if you have the money

Aneesh Reddy on why it's a great time to buy in SaaS if you have the money

Can the Indian EV industry sustain itself without subsidies?

Can the Indian EV industry sustain itself without subsidies?

Maruti Suzuki's Invicto versus Toyata's Innova Hycross — which one would you pick?

Maruti Suzuki's Invicto versus Toyata's Innova Hycross — which one would you pick?

  • IT services outlook: How TCS, Infosys and others are evolving differently from each other

    IT services outlook: How TCS, Infosys and others are evolving differently from each other

    Tata Consultancy Services will kick off earnings results for India's top IT companies next week for their fiscal first quarter that ended on June 30. We asked Yugal Joshi, a partner at Everest Group, to join us today to talk about the outlook for the sector. "Deceleration does not equate with decline," says Yugal. Companies like TCS and Infosys are so core to the operations of the world's biggest corporations that, barring black swans, the future can only hold growth. In the near term, an important phenomenon to pay more attention to is the number of senior exits, he says

  • Praval Singh on how Zoho's entrepreneurial culture has expanded its upmarket reach

    Praval Singh on how Zoho's entrepreneurial culture has expanded its upmarket reach

    Praval Singh, vice president of marketing and customer experience at Zoho, talks about how the company has achieved strong traction with larger enterprise customers. Over the last three years, Zoho grew its mid-market and enterprise segment at 65 percent CAGR. The segment accounts for 50 percent of its annual recurring revenue in India and a third of its entire business, which has more than 90 million users from over 600,000 businesses. Singh, who started as an entrepreneur and a customer of Zoho himself, talks about how Zoho plans to build on its achievements

  • India's SAFF victory: What it means for the future of Indian football

    India's SAFF victory: What it means for the future of Indian football

    India won its 9th SAFF Championship final yesterday and Sunil Chhetri took home his third Golden Boot award. But how bright is the future of Indian football? In this extended edition of ToThePoint, Kathakali Chanda is in conversation with the well-known sports presenter Joe Morrison. They speak about how far the game has come in India from its darkest day of recent memory when Chhetri had to appeal to fans to come watch the match to the current growing interest in the game. And, did the latest championship reveal glimpses of who might inherit Chhetri's mantle?

  • Meta's Threads vs Twitter: Is this the real Mark vs Musk cage fight?

    Meta's Threads vs Twitter: Is this the real Mark vs Musk cage fight?

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have had to contend with less than spectacular success with the metaverse, but will Instagram's Threads become an instant hit, as a "Twitter rival" or something better? Hitesh Rajwani, CEO of Social Samosa, joins us on ToThePoint today to talk about how Meta's ecosystem might finally have us in its full embrace. Hitesh also offers his views on why Threads might be the first real threat to Twitter, at a time when the microblogging platform continues to reel under the impact of Elon Musk's experiments

  • India's generative AI opportunity: Founder-investor views from Pratyush Rai and Vaibhav Domkundwar

    India's generative AI opportunity: Founder-investor views from Pratyush Rai and Vaibhav Domkundwar

    In this episode, Pratyush Rai, co-founder of Foyer and Vaibhav Domkundwar, CEO at Better Capital, discuss the generative AI opportunity in India. Pratyush and his two co-founders, Sirsendu Sarkar and Siddhartha Saxena, are developing a Chrome browser extension that they've named Merlin, which allows users to tap the power for ChatGPT from whichever website they're on. The product has found strong traction within months of its release and is backed by investors, including Better. The founders expect to build deeper features around personalisation and the mobile phone

  • HDFC Bank becomes a global giant — what should we expect from it now?

    HDFC Bank becomes a global giant — what should we expect from it now?

    The merger of HDFC Bank with the company widely seen as its parent, HDFC Limited, in India's biggest corporate deal, a $40 billion all-shares transaction, created the fourth-largest bank in the world by market capital. Forbes India's banking expert Salil Panchal joins us on ToThePoint today to discuss the significance of this development, which has been more than a year in the making, since it was first announced. And an important chapter concludes in the bank's history, Deepak Parekh, one of India's most respected corporate leaders, retires from the organisation

  • Inside our artificial intelligence special issue

    Inside our artificial intelligence special issue

    The world is watching the revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) that has been in the works for decades. OpenAI and its chatGPT are part of every other conversation. Now is the time to build on that revolution, and a few Indian startups—in healthcare to consumer research—have already started to harness the tech to their advantage. In this issue, we look at their stories, and in this podcast, Naini Thaker takes us through the ones you cannot miss

  • India's National Research Foundation gets green light and Rs 50,000 crore — big step?

    India's National Research Foundation gets green light and Rs 50,000 crore — big step?

    The union cabinet yesterday approved the introduction of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Bill, 2023 in parliament, the ministry of science and technology said in a statement. The NRF is to provide high-level strategic direction to scientific research in the country as recommended in the national education policy. The first outlay for it is Rs. 50,000 crore over the next five years. We asked Kamlesh Vyas, a partner at Deloitte and a specialist in education and skill development, to join us on ToThePoint today to explain the significance of this historic move

  • What Milind Manoj, AR expert, loves about Apple's Vision Pro and some things he doesn't

    What Milind Manoj, AR expert, loves about Apple's Vision Pro and some things he doesn't

    Milind Manoj, co-founder and CEO of Pupilmesh, an augmented reality and deep tech startup in Bengaluru, talks about what he loved about Apple's new headset, the Vision Pro. Milind talks about how Vision Pro differs from Apple's other products in that it will probably be very different from what we might find in, say, 2030. In contrast, if you look back at even the first iPhone, it's not all that different from today's handsets. Milind also explains some of the hardware challenges to be overcome before an AR headset will look no different from a pair of Ray-Bans

  • TCS and IT recruitment transgressions — not the first in the industry, won't be the last

    TCS and IT recruitment transgressions — not the first in the industry, won't be the last

    Tata Consultancy Services is investigating a jobs-for-payments allegation within the company, even hiring an external auditor, Mint newspaper has reported. We asked Kamal Karanth, co-founder of the staffing company Xpheno in Bengaluru, to join us on ToThePoint today to give us a sense of how bad the problem might be in an industry where thousands of recruits are placed in vacancies every single day. Kamal says what's come to light at TCS isn't the first time something like this has happened in the industry, and explains why it won't be the last

  • Ultraviolette's founders on the F77 — Part 2: Hard challenges, investors, products and plans

    Ultraviolette's founders on the F77 — Part 2: Hard challenges, investors, products and plans

    In this episode, Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajmohan, co-founders of Ultraviolette, talk about their early choices with the F77, a performance electric motorcycle that's caught the attention of enthusiasts, young and old. This is part 2 of our conversation, in which the entrepreneurs talk about how sticking to their conviction that building their motorcycle as a premium performance bike was the way to go, avoiding the mass-market segment, is now beginning to pay off