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India needs to have AI sovereignty: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
Huang, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 4 as part of his visit to India, said the company would like to work on the acceleration of building AI infrastructure in India.
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NVIDIA inks partnerships with Reliance and Tata to bring advanced AI technology to India
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang also detailed his discussions with Prime Minister Modi on how AI can help transform India and the role that his company will play.
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says India must develop sovereign AI, moots national AI lab
The chairman and CEO of IBM further said India is poised to ride the AI wave successfully, after BPO and IT services
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Peak XV’s Shailendra Singh stresses on free cash flow, building right culture at founders retreat
In a 40-minute welcome note, Singh asked founders to have clarity on product propositions and how they should have a multi-decade mindset, build defensible moats, and should prioritise solving problems over money
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Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal plans new start-up in e-commerce space
Binny Bansal is not seeking external capital and will bootstrap the venture with his own wealth
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Mukesh Bansal eyes $50-mn investment from Peak XV Partners, Accel for premium fashion venture
The new venture that Bansal is working on, along with Mohit Gupta, will be in the premium fashion space aimed at Gen Z, an increasingly attractive segment for e-commerce players.
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Lower burn, longer delivery time: What Zepto's pitch deck reveals about quick-commerce space
The deck not only sheds light on granular details about Zepto but also gives colour on the buzzy but intensely competitive quick-commerce space.
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Byju's holds call with over 100 investor representatives on audited results, Term Loan B
Byju's move to update investors comes at a time when India's most valued edtech company has been battling multiple fires, from a missed deadline to rework loan terms, to delays in filing its audited numbers, and a protracted fundraising process.
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Data protection bill: Ashwini Vaishnaw has done a great job, says Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani
Nilekani further said the data privacy bill provides a legal infrastructure that will lead to a massive explosion of credit for buyers and sellers.
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Govt mulls extension of 3-4 months to implement laptop, PC import curbs: Sources
The development comes hours after Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said "there will be a transition period" with the details coming out soon
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White Knight? Ranjan Pai in talks to invest $80-90 million in Byju’s-owned Aakash
The company is further seeking another $200 million (Rs 1,600 crore) in Aakash as a part of the funding round where sovereign wealth funds are expected to come on board.
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TCS reverts to vertical-based operating structure in first major change under new CEO
Moneycontrol had earlier reported that several senior executives were unhappy with the previous group-wise restructuring introduced under former CEO & MD Rajesh Gopinathan in April 2022. New CEO and MD K Krithivasan too kept his BFSI vertical out of that structure
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TCS rejigs senior management positions, appoints new CMO
According to sources in the know, Abhinav Kumar, a TCS veteran who has been with the company for over 21 years, will be taking over the role as the new chief marketing and communications officer for its global markets.
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Lack of transparency prompted board exit, says Byju's shareholder Peak XV
Peak XV Partners writes to LPs to clarify GV Ravishankar’s reason to step down from Byju’s board, cites lack of transparency as reason for his exit. Peak XV told LPs that Ravishankar wasn’t able to discharge his fiduciary duties as an investor and a board member
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MC Interview: Need a quarter or two before we can say difficult times are behind: TCS CEO Krithivasan
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MC Interview | Will improve utilisation to boost margins: HCLTech CEO
The IT services major consciously didn’t backfill attrition this quarter and delayed pay hikes reflecting on tough demand environment, even as headcount decreased by 2,506.
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Deal pipeline in current quarter is at all-time high, expect good sequential growth here on: HCLTech CEO
HCLTech’s quarterly order book for Q1 dropped to $1.56 billion. The decline in order book of Q1 was driven by large clients reprioritising projects and ramping down deals in the tech and telecom segments.
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BSNL deal is not about making money, it’s for nation building: TCS CEO K Krithivasan
A consortium led by TCS had recently bagged an Advance Purchase Order (APO) valued at over Rs 15,000 crore (around $1.8 billion) from BSNL to deploy 4G networks across India
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Double-digit growth could become difficult this year, see momentum once uncertainty ends: TCS CEO Krithivasan
The TCS CEO expects growth momentum to return once uncertainty ends in major markets such as the US and added that they will have better visibility in the second half of the year in a quarter or two.
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Swiggy has no control over valuation markdowns, says food marketplace CEO Rohit Kapoor
The CEO of Swiggy’s core business said that while the company remains excited about quick-commerce, there is consolidation underway and there are only three to four significant players in the sector
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MC Interview | Startups that had to go out of business already have: SoftBank's Rajeev Misra
Misra’s new fund One Investment Management has raised $7 billion in the first close and made an early investment in Shapoorji Pallonji through high-yielding debt
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Sushanth Tharappan to be Infosys' new HR head, replaces Richard Lobo
Sushanth Tharappan replaces Richard Lobo, who will move on to a special projects team under Chief Executive Officer Salil Parekh
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Behind the scenes: What happened between Byju’s and board members?
The directors may have wanted to avoid the liabilities associated with the delay in filing FY22 financials, which typically leads to a penalty being levied on them and damages their reputation.
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Three Byju's board members resign due to differences with founder Byju Raveendran
G V Ravishankar of Sequoia Capital (Peak XV Partners), Vivian Wu of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Russell Dreisenstock of Prosus have resigned, leaving Riju Ravindran, Byju Raveendran, and Divya Gokulnath as the remaining members to sit on the board of directors of Byju’s.
