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Covering Tech @moneycontrolcom | Ex- @Businessline , @Outlookindia , @Techcircleindia , @HtTweets | @ACJIndia alumnus | Eyeballing books and movie recommendations

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Debangana Ghosh
2 years
Career update : Very happy to share that I have joined @chandrarsrikant & team at @moneycontrolcom . Will be covering IT, startups, VCs, Big Tech, metaverse, crypto, short video apps among other areas from Mumbai
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🚨🆕️ Team update: Absolutely thrilled to welcome @debanganaghosh4 to the @moneycontrolcom tech, startup and new economy team. She will be based in Mumbai.
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My first anchoring gig with CNBC-TV18 Via @moneycontrolcom
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Well said...very much the toothless tiger it has been over the years #UkraineConflict
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United Nations will appeal for calm, peace, restraint. And go back to their scotch and sushi!
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@chandrarsrikant Surely the new dude/babe. Have seen friends calling their boyfriends 'Bro' 😂😂
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I complete 5 years in journalism today. Feels like a small milestone as my professors at ACJ would say, that if you survive in the profession for the first five years, you are here to stay longer.
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🚨🆕️Imp story: Campus hires of LTIMindtree who received offer letters in January 2022 still await on-boarding, and the IT services firm has now asked them to go through a new training programme to prove their eligibility 🧵 @moneycontrolcom gets you details @chandrarsrikant
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@chandrarsrikant Facts 😂😂
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Career Update : Yesterday was my last day at The Hindu BusinessLine. Was fortunate to work with the dream team led by @teekaytee , who has been an awesome mentor and has helped me grow as a journalist. Thanks for creating such a healthy and supportive newsroom! :)
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🚨 #WazirX accounted for 50% #crypto trading volumes in India, but 🧵 ➡️Users are transferring assets from WazirX ➡️Binance asked them to shift assets to its platform ➡️On Aug 9, WazirX tried to inform users that foreign exchanges are not TDS compliant
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🚨🚨 Google launches Google Startup School in India to enable and scale start-ups beyond metros. Wants to reach 10,000 startups through the school @chandrarsrikant via @moneycontrolcom
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🚨📢Country's largest IT services firm @TCS gets a new CEO and MD today. Here's all you need to know about K Krithivasan: 🧵 @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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🚨🚨 Scoop | Newly formed #cryptocurrency industry body Bharat Web3 Association (BWA) has written to the Finance Ministry stating concerns around taxation and regulatory uncertainty, ahead of the Union Budget 2023🧵 via @moneycontrolcom #Bitcoin #web3community #blockchains
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. @moneycontrolcom at #IntelTechTour Intel opened up its second largest semiconductor facilities globally to the media in Penang
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@jaysh88 Same for office mediclaim, which count only husband and children as family of a woman and not parents or younger siblings.
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Generated UPI Tap & Pay card at #GFF2023 . This tiny card with a chip inside and the design of your choice printed on it, got created in less than 15 seconds. @NPCI_NPCI @Unibrowverse @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Apple store at BKC will be the most sustainable of the tech giant's stores globally.
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@RanveerOfficial in the house! 🔥 at Meta Creator Day. @chandrarsrikant @Unibrowverse
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Big news : The CCI is of the view that mandatory use of Apple’s IAP for paid apps and in-app purchases restrict the choice available to app developers to select a payment processing system, given the high commissions charged by Apple. #latepost
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Debangana Ghosh
2 years
A quick break from the busy city life...
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🚨🆕Sam Bankman-Fried was born to lawyer parents on March 6, 1992, on the Stanford University campus — the pin code of at least 85 Nobel laureates in the past — and his life symbolically began in the place of greatness he was destined to achieve eventually... 🧵 #FTX #crypto
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🚨📢TCS, Microsoft, Accenture, IBM & many other tech companies are skilling lakhs of employees in AI. Yet only 2000 senior AI engineers are there in India who are building core AI products What does AI skilling really mean? @moneycontrolcom deep dives 🧵👇 @chandrarsrikant
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@SydSteyerhart It's wheatish not 'white'. Those are different skin tones.
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Debangana Ghosh
2 years
🚨Imp.: Google was suppose to impose 15-30% commission on in-app sales on Play Store, while denying app developers the choice to opt for other payment gateways. Deadline for implementation of this billing policy was set on October 31, 2022.
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2 years
BREAKING: CCI slaps fine on Google, for the second time in a week. It imposed a penalty of Rs 936.44 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position with respect to its Play Store policies, apart from issuing a cease-and-desist order. @tsuvik reports
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Mountain peaks, nature, mosques and cityscapes. Finding calm and peace in unseen places...UAE was beautiful
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Debangana Ghosh
2 years
🚨📢What went wrong at GoMechanic? ➡️During due diligence for a deal, several accounting irregularities were spotted ➡️The startup over inflated its numbers ➡️Made up fictitious partner garages ➡️Favoured a few select garage partners, giving them more business 🧵 Story so far:
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Apple invites media to get a look and feel of its flagship India store ahead of its opening on April 18th #AppleBKC @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Debangana Ghosh
2 years
✨A last look at 2022, before I move on. Grateful to have had a year full of opportunities and new learnings at @moneycontrolcom , @businessline and also personally. Got to cover big techs, venture capital, crypto, startups at HBL & MC and deep dived into IT.🧵
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🚨🆕After five-day work from office, now TCS sends sudden transfer notices Acc. to IT employee union NITES, 2000 employees were asked to transfer to new locations in two weeks notice, since August end. 🧵 @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Latest on The Wire Vs Meta. Following internal investigation, the news portal retracted the recent Meta stories permanently. It will now be reviewing previous Meta-related reportage as well
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Given the discrepancies that have come to our attention via our review so far, The Wire will also conduct a thorough review of previous reporting done by the technical team involved in our Meta coverage.
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Most elements of the store has been sourced locally from different parts of India
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Data protection law will be simple and easy. It may put lawyers out of business: @Rajeev_GoI at #MCFintechConclave @PMOIndia
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Government will support startups not just through policy but also funding, infrastructure, contracts etc. : @Rajeev_GoI to @kunalb11 at #GFF2022 @PriyankaIyer @Unibrowverse
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🚨🆕️ A Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur with 4 startups under his belt, Gupta has just sold his latest SaaS firm, Apptio, to IBM. Life has come full circle for Gupta who began his career with the tech giant in 1992  @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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2 years
🚨📢 @moneycontrolcom visited the upcoming Apple store at Jio World Drive Mall in BKC, Mumbai to understand the mood and expectations ahead of the launch. And here's what we found 🧵👇 @chandrarsrikant
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2 years
In the real estate sector, women borrowers in tier-2 &3 cities are growing by 20-23% : @TheOfficialSBI 's Chief Economic Advisor Soumya Kanti Ghosh at #IvyCapDay2022 via @moneycontrolcom @Unibrowverse
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🚨Infosys recruited over 76% fewer college graduates YoY in FY24. Freshers recruited: FY24: 11,900 FY23: 50,000 @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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In the past few years, most top Indian and global IT services companies have acquired a semiconductor R&D firm to expand their ER&D portfolio and cater to the growing semiconductor demand, following the global chip shortage of 2022-2023. @EIIRTrend @pareekhjain
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Debangana Ghosh
2 years
Had a great time moderating this amazing panel of industry veterans at the confluence of BFSI, tech and data science. On the panel were Kersi Tavadia of BSE, Sandeep Ubale of State Bank of India, Sunil Batra of NSDL, Nilotpal Gupta of ICICI Sec. & James Petter of Pure Storage
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According to multiple sources, Moneycontrol spoke to, around 600-700 freshers will be impacted and have to undergo the new training programme. Those unwilling to take up the new assessment and training programme will have their offers automatically cancelled.
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Debangana Ghosh
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🚨🚨MobiKwik's forensic audit report of the #databreach from earlier this year is still under examination with the #RBI , awaiting closure. Around 3.5 mn KYC documents and 100 mn mobile numbers linked to other details were leaked #cybersecurity #Dataleak
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2 years
The @moneycontrolcom newsroom is buzzing and all set for #Budget2023 . It takes an army, months of planning and a lot of work to bring you timely and accurate information. Stay tuned! #BudgetWithMC
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Debangana Ghosh
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Didn't go out since December 25th, had no New Year's plans, yet down with Covid and struggling to do basic daily chores due to weakness and constant sleepiness. What a start to 2022!🙁😐
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2 years
Freshers were earlier told joining dates would be shared post LTI and Mindtree merger. Not just LTIMindtree, most IT companies are currently going through a tough business environment amidst global macro headwinds, banking crisis, inflation and more.
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Debangana Ghosh
2 years
"You see the emergence of a new reasoning engine with AI" -- Microsoft CEO @satyanadella discusses future of Cloud and AI taking example of ChatGPT at Future Ready Leadership Summit. @moneycontrol
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Yeh best hai 😂😂
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Now who made this 😂
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The mental space you get in a crowded Mumbai local to introspect on things on a busy day is so underrated...
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So entire Mumbai decided to turn up at the Kala Ghoda Festival today 🫤😅 #kalaghoda
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The India techade is not just a rhetoric. Digital economy proportion of overall economy will go to 22% by 2026: @Rajeev_GoI at #MCFintechConclave
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2 years
Cognizant is going through an organisational restructuring. It is merging Digital Business & Technology and Digital Business Operations practice areas. via @moneycontrolcom
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🚨 Cognizant’s Rajesh Nambiar loses ‘executive’ position, takes a pay cut. He will however continue as Cognizant India chairman @debanganaghosh4 and I report
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Lucky and grateful for this opportunity to interview @RajeevThakkar , one of the best fund managers in the country, for @OutlookBusiness
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. @debanganaghosh4 goes beyond the numbers while penning an insightful story on @RajeevThakkar in the latest @OutlookBusiness . Available on the stands now... #investing
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. @Cleartrip Had booked a couple of flight tickets nearly a week ago, yet to receive confirmed tickets over mail/WA. This, despite I reaching out to the customer support thrice through calls & emails. Pls resolve asap.
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🚨🆕In a no holds barred interview, Silicon Valley veteran investor Kanwal Rekhi said SoftBank pushed for growth instead of profitability and that a growth-stage startup with no profitability is nonsense 🧵 via @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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🚨🆕Telecom sector deals had been the worst hit for IT services companies in the recent years. Now it is slowly making a comeback with mega deals of over $500 mn! 👇🧵 @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Work Update: For PR friends who aren’t aware, I have recently joined @Businessline . I am covering enterprise IT, Big Tech companies and sometimes startups. You can reach me at debangana.ghosh @thehindu .co.in
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🚀Beyond the news: ➡️InsuranceDekho raised $150mn in a Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and TVS Capital. ➡️This was its first institutional funding & the largest Series A round for an insurtech startup in India. ➡️ Apprx valuation was $450-500mn So, what sells? (1/3)
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2 years
Is it just me or is @WhatsApp actually down? 🤔
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3 years
Important news. DigiYatra Scheme which combines facial recognition with govt IDs like Aadhaar for flight boarding, check in etc. could create privacy issues in absence of data protection framework which is in the making. The scheme goes live in March.
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🚨🆕WazirX & Shardeum cofounder @NischalShetty spoke to @moneycontrolcom Highlights: ➡️L1 #blockchain @shardeum got 800,000 users on its beta network testing ➡️Almost 70% of them were from India ➡️ #blockchain expected to go live/ mainnet by July-Sept. quarter 🧵
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Debangana Ghosh
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Andreessen’s flagship #crypto fund shed around 40% of its value in the first half of this year, according to @WSJ sources. That decline is much larger than the 10% to 20% drops recorded by other venture funds... #cryptocurrecy #VentureCapital
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Debangana Ghosh
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🚨🆕Scoop: Microsoft India is increasing prices of its business suite offerings including Microsoft 365, Dynamic 365 by 6% from Feb 1. This will be the tech giant's third consecutive year of price hike in the country. @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Debangana Ghosh
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🚨IT companies like TCS, Infosys have their own internal gig work platforms, letting employees work on other short duration projects outside their departments. Wipro too has an external gig work platform called Topcoder, which let employees take up side jobs with other orgs.
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According to a report released by @nasscom almost 65 percent or two-thirds of the 70 organisations surveyed had employed gig workers in 2022. But they don't like moonlighting eh😉 @debanganaghosh4 ✍️
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Debangana Ghosh
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Wipro is also seeking damages worth Rs 25.15 crores along with 18 percent interest per annum till the date of payment.
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Debangana Ghosh
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Stage is set for @satyanadella 's speech at @Microsoft 's CEO Connection in Mumbai @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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🆕📢For Indian IT, 2023 was one of the worst years since Global Financial Crisis Industry experts see the impact of the ongoing market conditions for the IT sector spilling over to 2024; esp. in the next 6 months @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari kickstarts @Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai @moneycontrolcom brings you updates
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If you have a business model w.r.t to fintechs, where you want to own the infrastructure, you will be in for a shock in the future... when regulators arrive : @SEBI_India chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch at #GFF2022 @PriyankaIyer @Unibrowverse @moneycontrolcom
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🆕📢 AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, the three largest hyperscalers, reported single digit YoY growth in deal win by annual contract value (ACV) in the Q4 of 2022, signalling weakness after the industry’s rapid growth during the pandemic. 🧵 @moneycontrolcom
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🚨🚨After TCS and HCLTech, LTIMindtree weighs in on return to office. COO Nachiket Deshpande says the firm has mandated 2-day a week WFO for most associates, and 3-days a week for mid management & leadership details inside 👇 with @chandrarsrikant
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Debangana Ghosh
3 years
Though preachy in parts, Aaron Sorkin's #TheNewsroom was ahead of its time and I would love to see another season of this show someday
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Debangana Ghosh
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🚨🆕Acc. to Vineet Nayar, there are 3 key drivers of moonlighting in the IT sector: the widening gap between the salaries of freshers vs top management, the lack of purpose in the profit-driven culture of IT companies and the growing start-up economy.
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My story | BlackMatter Ransomware Group claims to have accessed over 100 GB of data on Pine Labs' fintech clients and employees @businessline @teekayte #databreach #cybersecurity #fintech
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🚨🆕Exclusive: TCS is holding up onboarding of lateral hires with 2 - 15 years of experience by 3 months amidst project commencement delays, multiple sources told @moneycontrolcom . Over 200 recruits are getting impacted. with @hrprya @chandrarsrikant
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Acc. to Peak XV’s Ishaan Mittal, Honasa Consumer's economic structure will be able to generate superior profitability to the FMCG industry in India. He added that when companies like Honasa are growing very fast, the operating leverage may take time to fully kick in.
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🚨📢Early investors @peakxvpartners & @Stellaris_VP , told that they are not exiting Honasa Consumer any time soon as they see huge potential & headroom for growth @chandrarsrikant
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🚨📢Only 10% of Boston Consulting Group's current clients have moved from generative AI PoCs to actually deploying them at present. BCG X's global leader & MD, Sylvain Duranton and India MD Nipun Kalra's tells us why 🧵👇: @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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The stage is set at Meta Creator Day, Mumbai edition 🔥 Team @moneycontrolcom brings you live updates @chandrarsrikant @Unibrowverse
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Nandan Nilekani shares his vision of the new India and what to expect in the coming decades. He also discusses the PDP Bill, Aadhaar and ONDC among several other interesting topics with @chandrarsrikant
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#IndiaAt75 : @NandanNilekani is one of the country’s leading entrepreneurs & a key player in India’s growth story! ⚡️ In an exclusive chat with @chandrarsrikant , he talks about his vision for India, his thoughts on the country's future & more! Watch 📽️
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🚨 #SCOOP | HCL Technologies lays off 350 employees working on client Microsoft's news related products. The employees were informed of the same last week in a town hall, sources told @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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. @satyanadella joins Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai @moneycontrolcom
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🚨 🚀Here's how cost cutting measures by Indian startups have fared in FY23: ➡️Employee costs down by only $700 mn, after laying off ~ 32,300 employees btwn Q4FY22 & FY23 ➡️Tech spending down by $200 mn YoY in FY23 ➡️Ad spend down by $800 mn Source : @unearthinsight Est.🧵
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