news

India has spent years celebrating founders who built companies from scratch. But what rarely gets discussed is what happens to the company, its shares and the family when a founder is suddenly gone. The recent tragic passings of prominent names in the Indian startup ecosystem, in

So my co-investor in $2.3B Owner.com (Vertical AI for restaurants) just moved to growth partner at Menlo Ventures and put out a post and chart this week that explains how venture capital works in 2026: 10 years ago, VCs were hunting unicorns. Then decacorns. Now? $25B+ exits. The

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts The U.S. needs more long-range missiles. In the first five weeks of the war against Iran, the United States fired more than a thousand Tomahawk cruise missiles. It did this against Iran: a mid-sized regional power. The West needs to be

Global brokerage firm Jefferies, in its latest note, has expressed optimism over Vodafone Idea's potential recovery, citing subscriber stabilisation, strong operating leverage, and tariff hikes, which it believes could take the stock back to levels not seen since July 2018. The s

US stocks declined on Wednesday as a sharp jump in crude oil prices added to investor concerns, with oil crossing the market-sensitive $100-a-barrel threshold for the first time since July as tensions in the Middle East intensified. Brent crude futurhttps://www.livemint.com/news/

In July, the Trump administration relegated endangered leatherback turtles, sea lions, and whales to mere collateral damage in its race to profit from the oceans. Now, fisheries science is in the government’s crosshairs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Beyond WUE: Assessing Data Center Water Resilience Water stewardship claims and WUE scores don’t guarantee reliability under heatwaves or water shortages. A site-specific resilience assessment matters mo

AI/ML Inferra is Lightbits inferencing memory wall buster Lightbits says its Inferra software accelerates KV cache operations, breaking down the memory wall, and improving GPU utilization. High-performance block storage software supplier Lightbits has developed its Inferra softwa

Listen to this article in summarized format The S&P 500 fell 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 407 points, or 0.8%, as of 9:52 a.m. ET. The Nasdaq composite was down 0.4%, with losses spreading across most sectors of the benchmark index. The selloff reflected g

AI - ai and ml Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AIClaude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's - SYSTEMS Samsung to help fortify OpenAI'

DATA MANAGEMENT Spectra Logic adds AI-powered video content discovery Spectra Logic has brought in a new Media Insight offering that it says makes archived video media easier to find, preview, and restore. Media Insight is part of Spectra’s Rio Media Suite, a subscription-based m

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed changes to the governance framework for market infrastructure institutions (MIIs)—such as stock exchanges and clearing corporations—citing difficulties in finding suitable governing board candidates and a lack of stan

Qatar posted its widest quarterly budget deficit since 2016 as the Iran war choked off most of its liquefied natural gas exports through the Strait of Hormuz. The 21.2 billion-riyal ($5.8 billion) second-quarter shortfall was almost double the previous quarter’s, and there are fe

Saudi Arabia may give the UN nuclear watchdog greater inspection powers as part of its attempts to get a nuclear deal with the US approved and head off criticism that the agreement does not sufficiently limit proliferation risks. The Saudi-US nuclear deal is expected to allow the

Abu Dhabi’s financial hub ADGM says entities licensed there now hold more than $100 billion in AI-focused investment, as it looks to draw more fund managers by dangling proximity to the UAE capital’s prodigious coffers and appetite for cutting-edge technology. Abu Dhabi tech vehi

Carrum Mobility, a B2B fleet management platform, has raised $10 million (approximately Rs 96 crore) in a Series B funding round led by Uber. This is Uber’s second investment in the company, following its $7 million investment in January 2026. The fresh capital will be used to ex

Save 40% on Autodesk’s Media and Entertainment Collection — thousands of dollars worth of software in a single bundle Whether you are into content creation, 3D animation or modeling, or visual effects creation, you need the right tools to succeed. Autodesk's software is second to

The rupee closed at 95.11 to a dollar, against the previous close of 94.82 against the greenback, as the market turned cautious with the Brent crude hovering over $100 a barrel, traders said. “The intensified military actions involving the US, Iran and regional proxies have heigh

Borthwick's holding pattern extended - with minimal confidence vote - Published "Horrendous" is not a word anyone wants to hear in their appraisal. It was, however, the word chosen by Conor O'Shea, the man responsible for overseeing England's international success, to describe th

Gold prices above $4,400 appear expensive, while silver around $66 remains relatively cheap, according to Monarch PMS, which sees a clear divergence in the valuation of the two precious metals. The brokerage's valuation framework suggests that gold has already moved back towards

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in Alcoa proposes $2.6B debt offering to fund South32 asset acquisition Sep 09, 2026, 9:12 AM ETAlcoa Corporation (AA) StockBy : Carl Surran, SA New

Off the Wire Press Releases TORONTO, Sept. 9, 2026 — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited, a leading photonic quantum computing company, and ASML, a leading supplier to the semiconductor industry, today announced a collaboration to develop advanced lithography processes for Xanadu

Markets are set to find out Wednesday just how aggressive the Treasury Department's bond-buying program will get, as Secretary Scott Bessent dared currency traders to challenge him. The department is expected to announce around 11 a.m. the size of a buyback operation it announced

Live updates: GOP candidates join Trump at Dallas midterm convention Administration officials, Republican candidates and party leaders will join President Trump in Dallas on Wednesday for the opening of a two-day Republican National Committee midterm convention. The president wil

It has now modified the norms after receiving representations to review position limits for agri commodity derivatives and to cap penalties for position limit violations. The changes are based on stakeholder representations, recommendations from the working group on agri commodit

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in On the MoveEnergy BKV proposes 400M convertible notes offering Sep 09, 2026, 9:04 AM ETBKV Corporation (BKV) StockBy : Preeti Singh, SA News Edi

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in Financials Citi eyes first-mover role with 24/7 tokenized payments in Japan Sep 09, 2026, 9:04 AM ETCitigroup Inc. (C) StockBy : Sara Sethiya, S

South Africa’s GDP shrank in the second quarter of this year, as the impact of the Iran war ended an 18-month period of growth in Africa’s biggest economy. Weakened demand and higher fuel prices, caused by the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, weighed on the mining, trade, and ma

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in IonQ in focus as Mizuho reiterates Outperform after investor day Sep 09, 2026, 9:02 AM ETIonQ, Inc. (IONQ) StockBy : Chris Ciaccia, SA News Edito

Copthall Mauritius Investment Ltd., a JPMorgan unit based in the island nation, and Mansi Share and Stock Broking deposited the alleged unlawful gains last month related to trades in the closing auction session on the BSE on Aug. 13, one of the people said, asking not to be ident

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the U.S. government to ban several hack-for-hire firms — companies that carry out cyberattacks on behalf of paying clients. The lawmakers accuse the firms of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence U.S. reporting on

As the Dangote Group nears the opening bell for its Nigerian refinery’s IPO, plans to build a similar plant in Kenya are under the spotlight because of an array of potential challenges. The massive refinery in Lagos state has sourced crude oil from within Nigeria as well as inter

'Embarrassing' Pakistan break record in morning to forget - Published The only thing gloomier than the leaden skies at lunch on day of the third Test at Edgbaston will have been the mood in the Pakistan dressing room as things went from bad to worse. Downcast might be understatin

9/11 was the beginning of the end of American democracy No one who lived through the events of Sept. 11, 2001, needs a reminder that this week marks the attack’s 25th anniversary. Images and videos of the carnage were so omnipresent in the wake of the attack and the years that fo

Four years ago, California startup Autonomy pledged to buy 23,000 EVs from 17 automakers, including Tesla, and make them available as part of a vehicle subscription service. It was a combination of two trends that had taken off in the early 2020s. It didn’t work out. Within a yea

Amazon’s Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor’s mouth with “human-dubbed” audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to “additional titles” in the futur

As AI agents gain access to the same sensitive corporate data and systems as human workers while operating at machine speed, enterprises are prone to new security risks. Storied venture firm Sequoia Capital is betting big on that shift, backing startup Cymphony as it emerges with

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform. The company announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new AI-powered grocery shopping assistant called Clementine that can turn a conversation, grocery list, or recipe into a ready-to-buy cart

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in Ituran wins up to $7M Israeli transport contract Sep 09, 2026, 8:59 AM ETIturan Location and Control Ltd. (ITRN) StockBy : Pratyush Thakur, SA Ne

Oil rises past $100 a barrel after latest Middle East attacks Oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since July as renewed fighting in the Middle East raised concerns about further disruptions to global energy supplies. Brent crude, the global benchma

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in TinOne announces C$750K private placement Sep 09, 2026, 8:58 AM ETTinOne Resources Inc. (TORC:CA) Stock, TORCF StockBy : Khushi Singh, SA News Ed

Stock index futures were in the red on Wednesday, with Nasdaq futures bottoming the pack as tech stocks came under pressure. Here are four stocks to watch on the day:

African infrastructure investor Africa50 plans to raise the value of its portfolio to $20 billion over the next five years, an executive told Reuters. The Casablanca-based fund has backed more than 30 projects in 32 countries spread across multiple sectors, with a current combine