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For more than a year, Amazon has blocked outside shopping agents from its site while finding ways for its own customers to shop elsewhere. Now a new wave of AI assistants like Meta’s Muse is raising the stakes. In recent months Amazon has stepped up its Shop Direct initiative, wh

Featured Story HPE claims to have beaten Cisco to a proper self-driving network Marvis, described as an AI brain, now unifies all the various parts of the Aruba and Mist portfolios to create a truly autonomous system, says HPE. The tower companies (towercos) now own Dish Wireless

Spotting any kind of discount on storage as of late has been a bit of a monumental task, as the prices of HDDs and SSDs have only been going one way, and that's up. Seagate's 16TB Expansion Desktop External HDD is reduced to $399.99 at Newegg, a reduction of $150 from its $549.99

Source material: "BRAT" Art Director Brent David Freaney finds design inspiration from everyday life The designer takes us through his world of color theory, photography, graphic systems, and found ephemeral. Share Source material: "BRAT" Art Director Brent David Freaney finds de

Housekeeping: I’m on the road so the voiceover will be late. Hill-climbing is easy, knowing what to hill-climb is hard. Making scores go up is expensive, but we have a much clearer playbook for it than we do for creating meaningful benchmarks at the true frontier of AI today. Ind

United Spirits Q2 Results: Net profit falls 2%, misses estimates as Popular segment slumps - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 18:28 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 18:28 IST Higher promotional spending and a sharp slump in budget liquor sales dragged down the liquor maker's quarter

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Despite macroeconomic uncertainties and the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), Dinesh Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer, IndiaMART, remains optimistic and expects IndiaMART InterMESH to continue growing profitably in the foreseeable future. In an interaction with Min

Alexis’s view The longstanding debate over whether African nations should view gas as a “transition fuel” in the shift to renewable energy has gone quiet. Western institutions in recent years refused to invest in gas infrastructure, arguing countries would be locked into fossil f

Rohan’s view The swift unraveling of one of the world’s most prestigious law firms has rattled corporate law firms wondering if it could happen to them. Many of them should be scared. Weil Gotshal, a restructuring guru that advised Lehman Brothers, General Motors, and other big c

Data centers have become a key issue in the US mid-term elections

The rare Voatsiperifery pepper, native to Madagascar and coveted by international chefs, is facing the depletion of its wild habitat through irresponsible harvesting, bush fires, and charcoal production. Madagascar’s natural forests shrank 27% between 1990 and 2025, according to

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AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Hollywood actor Idris Elba launched a filmmaking program for African creatives using artificial intelligence, in the latest stage of his efforts to boost the continent’s movie industry. Backed by $1 million from Google, the star’s Akuna Group opened applications for a one-year tr

Russia is shifting its recruitment focus for its war in Ukraine to people from countries including Burundi and Zimbabwe, as it seeks to replace soldiers lost in the fighting, according to Ukrainian intelligence findings reported by Bloomberg. The move follows efforts by Kenya and

General Motors’ decision to up and move its stock listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq — a bid for inclusion in the latter’s tech-heavy index, which would bring new investors to its stock — doesn’t mean it’s a tech company. The carmaker famously failed in its foray into self-drivi

Featured Story HPE claims to have beaten Cisco to a proper self-driving network Marvis, described as an AI brain, now unifies all the various parts of the Aruba and Mist portfolios to create a truly autonomous system, says HPE. Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: VMO2's Schüle

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu asked lawmakers to approve a $22 billion borrowing plan to fund infrastructure projects to be undertaken if he secures a second term in January’s election. The request came as the president and his chief rivals stepped up campaigning in major Nigeri

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The Dangote refinery’s $1.6 billion share sale drew investors from across the continent, Africa’s richest man said, in a rare demonstration that Africa’s savings can move across borders at the scale needed to fund its biggest companies without passing through London or Johannesbu

The benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond yield traded in a 7.42% to 7.49% range before ending little changed at 7.44%. The yield failed to hit 7.50% for a second straight session, triggering a bout of short covering, traders said. Indian government bonds experienced a significant decline af

Meesho Q2 results: Net loss narrows 68% to ₹132 crore as orders rise 17% - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 18:03 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 18:03 IST The e-commerce platform reported strong growth in transactions and sellers, fueled by premium demand and content commerce. Bet

The Kolkata-headquartered private sector lender managed to reduce gross non-performing assets ratio to 3.11% at the end of September from 5.02% a year prior in tandem with the recovery in the unsecured loan market, which contributed about a third to its total portfolio. "I would

Revenue from operations rose 34.4% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 4,131.58 crore in Q2FY27, compared with Rs 3,073.67 crore in Q2FY26. Total expenses increased 23.8% YoY to Rs 4,382.27 crore from Rs 3,540.44 crore in the year-ago quarter. On a sequential basis, the company's net loss r

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The proposed offering will consist entirely of an offer for sale (OFS) of 86.42 million equity shares by existing shareholders, according to the updated draft red herring prospectus dated October 27. Since the issue is entirely an OFS, Carlsberg India will receive no proceeds fro

Shares of Syngene International closed 12% higher in Wednesday’s trade on October 28, settling at ₹411 apiece, its highest level in two months and its biggest single-day gain in six years. The rally followed the company’s September-quarter results, which showed a sequential impro

The company had posted net profit of Rs 1572.3 crore in the corresponding period of the last financial year. Revenues for the company rose 19% to Rs 20,696.1 crore in the quarter under review. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), excluding other

The Wall Street Journal just reported that about $140 billion of risky corporate loans owed by private-equity-backed companies come due in 2028, with another $160 billion in 2029. From 2023 to 2025, the amount due two years out averaged about $60 billion, per PitchBook. Software

AI is changing the pace of software development. Tasks that once required hours of coding, testing, and debugging can now be completed much faster with AI assistants and agents. Yet the speed at which an application is created says little about how well it will perform once deplo

TVS Holdings Q2 Results: Net profit surges 43% to ₹635 crore as revenue crosses ₹20,000 crore - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 17:35 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 17:35 IST TVS Holdings posted a substantial jump in September quarter net profit and revenue, fueled by robust dema

With some 71% of votes tallied, Israeli media projected Netanyahu's right-wing bloc to win 54 seats, well ahead of the 47 forecast for rival Gadi Eisenkot's opposition bloc but short of the 61 needed for a majority in the 120-seat parliament. Arab parties were projected to win 19

I have personal-agent fatigue, so I ran the first How I AI personal-agent benchmark: Grok Bot, Dot, Muse, and Claude Duet across nine real tasks, from a Slack reply and a Sentry bug to a Figma thumbnail, inbox triage, a family newspaper, physics homework for a fourth grader, shoe

Its net profit stood at Rs 138.18 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 678.95 crore in the second quarter of this fiscal from Rs 640.89 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing. During the first six months of this

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Astrology and spiritual wellness platform Astrotalk’s net profit surged more than 10-fold to Rs 222 crore in FY26, as revenue grew 55% year-on-year to cross Rs 1,800 crore. International markets drove a significant share of this growth, with overseas revenue growing 2.6 times. Th

A new survey reframes foundation model adaptation for medical imaging as a risk-control problem, mapping five mechanisms to clinical deployment trade-offs.

Here are some details: * The company, formed by the demerger of Vedanta in May, said its consolidated net profit rose to 51.67 billion rupees ($542.82 million) for the quarter ended September 30 from 23.73 billion rupees a year earlier * Revenue from operations rose 40% to 223.24

Numeracle has raised $28 million from Edison Partners to help businesses whose calls are incorrectly labeled as spam or blocked by phone carriers, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The McLean, Virginia-based company verifies businesses and links their identities to the phone

The financial services division of the diversified conglomerate Murugappa Group earned a net profit of Rs 1,155 crore in the year-ago period. Its total income rose to Rs 9,367 crore in the quarter under review from Rs 7,590 crore a year ago, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance C

Why native PC conversions of console games are suddenly everywhere — Reverse Engineer Anything gives AI agents a unified toolkit, and byte-for-byte checks keep hallucinations in line The stage was set, all that was needed was a push... from an army of bots. Over the past weeks an

Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition from locals. There's the fight in Taylor over plans to build a data center at a s

A service can run for years with passing tests, patched dependencies, and scans on every pull request while an application-specific vulnerability remains undetected. Read the code function by function and nothing looks dangerous. The vulnerability only shows up when a developer t

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Meesho’s consolidated net loss narrowed 68% YoY to ₹132.4 Cr in Q2 FY27, while operating revenue rose 34% to ₹4,131.6 Cr Revenue growth outpaced the 24% increase in expenses, helping narrow losses, alongside the absence of last year’s exceptional charges Revenue grew 11% sequenti

Small-cap stock under ₹50: Shares of Sudarshan Pharmaceuticals rallied to end 7% higher on Wednesday. The stock has delivered close to 25.37% return in six months and around 60% surge in one year. The recent uptick in stock movement has come after the pharma stock’s formal listin

Revenue from operations rose 44% to Rs 17,103 crore in the quarter ended September 2026, against Rs 11,905 crore in the year-ago period. The company reported its highest-ever quarterly EBITDA of Rs 2,219 crore, up 47% from Rs 1,507 crore in the second quarter of FY26. EBITDA marg

E-commerce marketplace Meesho has announced its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. The company reported a 34% year on year increase in revenue, while its losses narrowed sharply by 68% to Rs 132 crore during the same period. The company