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Walmart-owned Flipkart is close to a full food delivery launch in Bengaluru and is currently eyeing a timeline of August…
For a generation of Indian students preparing for competitive exams, “Hello bacchon…” became more than a classroom greeting. It became…
Bengaluru-based Zetwerk is entering the public markets with a business that looks quite different from the business for which it…
A premium leather bar cabinet in an urban Indian home is more than just a piece of furniture. It reflects…
With short-form content everywhere, a three-hour movie now feels like a commitment. That is where microdramas have entered the picture. …
Data centres have evolved from specialised computing facilities into critical infrastructure powering the modern digital economy. As India rapidly...
As enterprises increasingly turn to AI to get work done, three new weapons are emerging in their fight to control…
In last week’s edition of The Checkout, we explored how efficient dark store management will be central to quick commerce…
For much of the past two years, the AI race in Indian ecommerce revolved around the consumer. That meant the…
Lenskart’s recent results for the first quarter (Q1) of the financial year 2026-27 (FY27) suggest the company is entering a…
Astrotalk pulled off something unique this week. It became India’s 133rd unicorn but in the process, it didn’t raise any…
The Infra.Market IPO was never easy to follow. It all started with RDC Concrete. In 2021, Infra.market acquired RDC Concrete…
In 2021, when much of India was still getting used to ordering groceries online, two teenage Stanford dropouts, Aadit Palicha…
ChatGPT is beginning to emerge as more than a search assistant for ecommerce. For a growing number of brands and…
At a time when founder Nitish Mittersain is set to step down as the CEO on September 1, 2026, Nazara…
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is consolidating its data centre, cloud and AI infrastructure businesses under newly incorporated subsidiary Vyoma.AI as…
India’s festive shopping journey is becoming less linear with every season, and Snapchat is betting that this transition can help…
Table Space has become the latest company to file its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP), bringing the managed workspace operator…
The cost of using AI is falling rapidly, with the price of processing a million tokens dropping by roughly 10X…
As AI-generated content floods the internet, differentiating machine output from human work has emerged as a defining problem. While regulators…
August is here, and India’s biggest shopping months are just around the corner. From Raksha Bandhan and Ganesh Chaturthi to…
Eternal’s AI venture Nugget has quietly pulled off a surprise even by Blinkit or Zomato’s standards. Nugget, an enterprise AI…
Under deep public scrutiny, Bhavish Aggarwal’s Ola Electric has spent the past year trying to fix a business that had…
In the last 10 years, UPI has changed how India transacts. What began as a simple, instant and interoperable way…
Nykaa was once called the “Amazon of beauty”. And it wasn’t an unfair comparison to some degree. Like Amazon, Nykaa…
India’s push to become a global cloud and AI infrastructure hub received a boost after the Lok Sabha passed the…
On August 2, Urban Company cofounder and CEO Abhiraj Singh Bhal announced that the company’s instant housekeeping service, InstaHelp, had…
WhatsApp today is more than just a messaging app. For millions of users, it serves as the primary channel for…
Imagine an AI agent at an Indian bank tasked with reconciling a failed transaction. In trying to complete the job,…
Running out of pooja samagri just before an aarti is no longer the household crisis it once was. The missing…
The quick commerce industry in India got a reality check this week as Zepto’s IPO plans were put on hold.…
In June, Sarvam AI entered India’s unicorn club, raising $234 Mn (about ₹2,210 Cr) in a $300 Mn Series B…
What’s driving the next phase of India’s export story? It’s no longer just manufacturing capacity or shipping lanes, but the…
Recently listed NBFC Kissht is entering its “quality over quantity” phase, as it looks to build a more sustainable lending…
For nearly six years, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India have carried a zero-cost promise: no Merchant Discount Rate…
For the first five years of CRED’s existence, the question on everyone’s minds was: how will CRED even make money.…
“Tried everything under the sun… but nothing worked. Good weeks were usually followed by disastrous ones,” wrote marginmemos, an anonymous…
Opening a banking app, ordering food, or buying a pair of shoes online may not feel remarkable anymore, but what’s…
Almost five years ago, Paytm became one of the first Indian startups, and among the first fintech companies, to make…
With many homegrown foundation model initiatives competing for talent, compute and enterprise mindshare, the question of who will define the…
The month so far has kept the Indian fintech sector busy, with the action shifting from the funding table to…
AI detects a farmer’s field has been irrigated and automatically shuts off the tubewell. A PepsiCo field agent, sitting hundreds…
For years, extended-size fashion in India has been limited to a separate section, a handful of styles or basic XXL-and-above…
Diversification seems to be the common thread running through India’s fintech ecosystem right now. Last week, we took a closer…
When Flipkart entered quick commerce last year, many were sceptical of the move, as the ecommerce giant was seen as…
For years, India’s approach towards cryptocurrencies has largely revolved around taxation, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and transaction...
Google-backed social media startup ShareChat is planning for a $400 Mn IPO by next year. It crossed ₹1,000 Cr in…
Before 10-minute deliveries, dark stores and quick commerce wars, there were red-shirted Zomato riders racing across cities with pizzas, biryanis…
A tequila bottle accidentally holds down the delete key, destroying a fictional startup’s servers during a live coding showdown. This…
Last week, Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, carrying multiple…