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Large cap dividend jackpots: Coal India, Wipro, ITC, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation are among the top five large cap companies with highest dividend yield for financial year 2025-26.Large cap stocks with high dividend yield offers investors an op

Two years on, Nike's market value and earnings have more than halved, while many of the problems Hill was hired to fix - from weakness in China to over-reliance on discounted lifestyle products - continue to weigh on the business. The unfinished turnaround was on display again on

Sony brings AI-powered upscaling to the standard PS5 — new QSSR technology to deliver a taste of the PS5 Pro experience, streamlined neural network tech built with AMD PS5 gets its own upscaling solution. The PlayStation 5 is getting AI-driven upscaling, giving base console owner

JSW Group’s B2B ecommerce marketplace JSW One Platforms narrowed its consolidated net loss by 50.9% to ₹106.5 Cr in FY26 from ₹217 Cr in the previous financial year, helped by revenue growth outpacing the rise in expenses. Its operating revenue jumped 44.9% to ₹5,743.4 Cr from ₹3

Today, we launched Discourse, a curated forum on top of the Cosign network. 3,000 people have access to post directly, and everyone else can submit posts into a queue, kind of like old Product Hunt. Check it out: https://discourse.cosign.co/ America’s defense-tech renaissance is

I've seen nearly 500 executions - but never one like Christa Pike's - Published Reporter Michael Graczyk has covered nearly 500 executions carried out in Texas, continuing even after his 2018 retirement from The Associated Press. He remembers two instances where needles popped ou

Exhibit bookings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 close in less than 24 hours. From October 13-15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at San Francisco’s Moscone West looking for companies, products, ideas, and people worth knowing. The question is: Wi

The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Applications close tonight at midnight PT. Connect with the Boston startup ecosystem through November 1–7 by hosting your own Side Event. Bring your comm

Tiisetso’s view At about 5am on Monday, 23-year-old Boitumelo Nhlanzi left home in Thembisa for work. She never arrived. She was shot dead in what police call an apparent robbery, the 12th woman found dead in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, since July. The night before, gunmen

The US labor market added 29,000 jobs in September, falling far short of economists’ expectations following a strong showing in August, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. Downward revisions for July and August also point to a weaker labor market than first though. The r

Welcome to Edition 9.13 of the Rocket Report! This week, SpaceX celebrated the first orbital launch of its new Starship rocket. I’m not sure many people, at least those outside of SpaceX, expected it to take 14 flights of Starship before it technically reached low-Earth orbit, bu

Vaishali Parekh's top 3 stocks to buy: In the truncated trading week, the benchmark indices corrected sharply. The Nifty 50 index ended down by 3.10%, while the Sensex fell nearly 2000 points. Among the sectors, almost all major sectoral indices saw profit-booking at higher level

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

Amazon and Synopsys ink multi-year billion-dollar deal in multi-year IP agreement to accelerate AI chip design efforts — Synopsys to adopt Amazon Bedrock to deploy AI agents, harnessing AWS compute and storage capabilities Amazon and Synopsys team up. Amazon and chip design tool

One of the selling points of ETFs is that they can be highly tax-efficient for managing capital gains and losses, but wealthy investors may have to rethink certain ETF tax-deferral strategies following recent communications from the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury. At

The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in September, pointing to a surprising soft spot in the labor market and broader economy. Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 29,000 for the month while the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Stat

Nike shares dropped Friday, falling for a second straight day after the company reported declining revenue and plans to lay off staff in 2027. The sportswear giant said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter revenues were down 4% to $11.2 billion, citing declines in Greater China

Tesla sold more than 480,000 EVs in the third quarter, as the company continues finding ways to move new cars despite its troubles in the U.S. market. It was the second strong quarter in a row for Tesla after a somewhat rough start to the year. The sales figure easily beat out co

Transsion Holdings, the biggest seller of phones in Africa, is eyeing a $500 million initial public offering in Hong Kong as the firm seeks to raise money to develop a new generation of AI-enhanced devices. Shenzhen-based Transsion dominates the African market across its three ma

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema used his first trip abroad since his re-election last month to tell Gulf investors to fully comply with the country’s local procurement rules, he said. Zambia is Africa’s second-largest producer of copper, whose prices have soared as demand ri

Senate Republicans’ top super PAC is making a tactical change, pausing its ad campaign in North Carolina’s Senate race and launching a new one in Kansas. Senate Leadership Fund is plowing seven figures into Kansas to help incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall against Democrat

Investors now think the odds are extremely unlikely that the Federal Reserve raises interest rates again in October, following a weaker-than-expected September employment report. CME's FedWatch tool, based on trading in 30-day interest rate futures, shows only a 17% chance that t

Storage news ticker - 2 October Cloud storage provider Backblaze has published its quarterly drive stats report with the now usual minor changes in disk drive annual failure rates. The report spends a lot of time discussing the whys and wherefores and ins and outs of shingled mag

Epic, the software technology giant that makes the widely used MyChart software for accessing patients’ medical data, has paused most of its product development as the company works to protect its software and systems from cyberattacks. Judy Faulkner, the founder and chief execut

Flock drones with cameras deployed as first responders in some US cities amid privacy concerns — UAVs connect to wider emergency services system and streams video to dispatchers, officers These drones could cut emergency response times to under two minutes, but at what cost? Seve

Rivian sold more electric vehicles than ever in the third quarter, thanks in large part to the launch of its new, more affordable R2 SUV. The company said Friday morning that it built 19,751 vehicles and delivered 19,248. That’s roughly 45% more than it delivered in the same peri

How Gordon became one of England's main men - Published Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, Jordan Pickford and now Anthony Gordon. All have become guaranteed starters and reliable stars for England, with the Barcelona winger the latest to look, according to captain Kane, l

The African Development Bank is holding talks with financiers, with the aim of finding ways to mobilize around $4 trillion in untapped domestic capital to fund the continent’s development needs, its president said. Sidi Ould Tah said the goal was to plug a development financing g

MinIO: you don’t need an object cache. You need a faster object store. MinIO blogs about object caching in AI and says you don’t need a cache if your object storage is fast enough. Blogger Daniel Valdivia, a MinIO architect, compares a CoreWeave LOTA (Local Object Transport Accel

The African Union urged Ethiopia and its neighbors to exercise restraint as growing tensions threaten to destabilize the region. Addis Ababa has accused Egypt, Eritrea, and Sudan of supporting armed opposition groups that have fought Ethiopia’s federal troops in the northern Tigr

Nigeria will shift its economic policy goal from administering “emergency treatment” to delivering shared prosperity, President Bola Tinubu said, pitching himself as the best person to address welfare concerns ahead of crunch elections in January. Tinubu’s three-year overhaul of

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally. Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64GB

Nvidia introduces 64GB DGX Spark to throw local AI fans a lifeline amid the RAMpocalypse — new GB10 config starts at $4999 for those who can work with less Less memory, lower price, otherwise identical Nvidia is tailoring its popular DGX Spark platform and the GB10 SoC to better

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Five Ways to Assess Your AI Infrastructure Readiness AI success hinges on infrastructure. Use this five-part framework to evaluate power, cooling, security, cost strategy, and scalability. Enthusiasm doe

It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week, and what we’re still thinking about. From Patagonia’s voting campaign to what low TV purchasing intent means for Best Buy, here’s

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

Rivian has issued a recall for its R2 SUV after the company discovered that fasteners on its high-voltage battery pack might not be properly tightened, which can cause a loss of power while driving. The company says only around 14 vehicles may have been affected, and that it will

YouTube is stalking the sports landscape for live rights. YouTube would like as many games as it can get its hands on – while also giving users as "clean" of an experience as possible, according to people familiar with the matter. YouTube has been coy with its sports strategy, ac