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A high click rate cannot tell a fintech company whether a user will complete the KYC. Similarly, downloading an app does not promise a purchase. Yet these remain the metrics that digital advertising has traditionally been built around. For brands, the real challenge is understand

Building a modern data lakehouse requires moving data between specialised query engines and BI tools across different environments. Cloud data warehouses charge massive exit fees for egress, ie moving data across platforms, and these bills stack up when querying or federating dat

Listen to this article in summarized format Large foreign funds, sovereign wealth funds and domestic institutions have shown interest in buying $750 million to more than $1 billion worth of Jio Platforms shares each, far exceeding the allocations available in its roughly $854 mil

AI - Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16 - Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conv

Jio Platforms’ initial public offering (IPO) is scheduled to open on 21 October and close on 23 October 2026. The price band has been set at ₹1,065– ₹1,119 per share. The issue is expected to raise around ₹30,213 crore through a fresh issue of 27 crore shares. At the upper end of

I don’t necessarily consider myself a gamer, but I have sunk hundreds of hours of my life into Skyrim. So, it follows perhaps that I keep an eye on the state of the gaming industry—a famously tough business, driven by hits and weighed down by high development costs. It’s also a s

Nearly 100 years after the dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the first nonstop airship journey across the Pacific Ocean, another airship has successfully completed a round-trip flight from New Mexico to Japan and back. But the significance of this modern feat was less about the journe

AI - Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16 - Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conv

Listen to this article in summarized format The metal major’s revenue from operations shot up more than 76.5% YoY to Rs 15,093 crore during the July-September quarter of FY27, from Rs 8,549 crore reported in the year-ago period. This was driven by higher metal prices, increased m

Flipkart-backed super.money more than tripled its operating revenue in FY26 as it expanded its UPI payments and credit marketplace business. However, the growth came at a cost, as the losses for the firm widened by 78% during the fiscal year ended March 2026. Super.money's revenu

Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares — potentially more if it hits unspecified revenue targets — to a public-benefit fund, the latest effort by frontier AI labs to head off political backlash over the technology’s impact on jobs and society. Its rival OpenAI has simila

A weekend of violent cost-of-living protests in France risks intensifying crises elsewhere in Europe, analysts warned. Though largely peaceful, in some areas they degenerated into riots and mass looting in which cars were set alight, with police arresting more than 2,000 people.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to strike deals across resource-rich Central Asia and reverse Chinese inroads in a region long dominated by Russia. Uzbekistan holds vast deposits of rare earths and critical minerals, while neighboring Kazakhstan is the world’s leading pr

Monday 19 October 2026 Top stories today: - Anthropic commits 5% of shares to “Public Benefit Fund” - Sam Altman’s World launches World ID suite for banks - Nscale faces pushback on ~$30B IPO valuation as Microsoft exits deal - Intel unveils D-series data center GPUs with up to 4

Brazil’s presidential candidates traded barbs in the first debate ahead of Sunday’s runoff, with polls showing a technical tie. Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had avoided debating challenger Flávio Bolsonaro — the son of a former president jailed for staging a coup — but the

China’s economy grew faster than expected in the third quarter thanks to the country’s powerful export machine, with domestic consumption still lagging and the authorities showing little interest in fiscal stimulus. The latest figures put the world’s second-biggest economy on tra

The project 'Manasum Varishta', located on Dwarka Expressway, will have 164 senior homes. A joint statement on Monday said Signature Global will be responsible for land, development and construction, including project financing, approvals and liaisoning. Bengaluru-based Manasum w

Listen to this article in summarized format In a circular issued on Monday, October 19, the BSE released the detailed timetable for the special session, including pre-open trading, block deals, closing auctions and post-closing activities. Unlike regular trading days, when the eq

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly floated a three-way summit between himself, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the table. The meeting was mentio

With the nights getting chillier, I’ve been reaching for a cup of tea more often. And if there’s one thing that can make a cozy fall night even better, it’s a warm drink that actually stays warm. Enter Ember’s new Mug 3, the latest version of the company’s temperature-controlled

Official DLSS 5 running on unsupported games delivers up to 90% better performance than the leaked version — Nvidia says the new NR model uses 20% less VRAM and processes neural workloads up to 2x faster Nvidia's new Neural Rendering model is smaller but better. A new version of

Shares of multibagger CCL Products fell another 2% in Monday’s intraday trade on 19 October, dropping to ₹983, their lowest level in seven months, as the earnings-led sell-off extended into its second day. The losses have pushed the stock into negative territory for October, with

The rupee hovered between 94.76 and 94.96 through the day before closing the session at 94.9250, nearly flat compared with its closing level on Friday. India's benchmark stock gauge, the Nifty 50, fell over 1%, pressured by weakness in heavyweight information technology and finan

AI - Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16 - Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conv

IDBI Bank shares have delivered little price appreciation over the past two decades, with the stock trading at an intraday high of ₹84.70 on 19 October 2026, compared with ₹85.20 on 30 October 2006. Despite a sharp rally following developments around the bank’s proposed privatisa

Flipkart-owned Cleartrip’s losses widened 28% year-on-year to Rs 805 crore in FY26, as the travel platform continued to spend heavily on cashbacks and discounts, which rose 47.6% to Rs 897.5 crore in the fiscal year. Following 70% growth in FY25, Cleartrip’s net operating revenue

Most conversations about the future of AI focus on hyperscalers, chips and increasingly capable models. For Michael Ferrari, chief AI officer at Moby, this overlooks a critical part of the equation: the physical infrastructure needed to sustain AI’s growth. Speaking at Cypher 202

According to NSDL data, total FII net sales for 2026 have now surpassed Rs 2.5 lakh crore. Despite the broader market weakness, all 10 equity PMS strategies in the September rankings posted positive returns, ranging from 3.55% to 5.67%. Here’s what they held in their portfolios.

Drone Dominance the Pentagon’s $1bn drone contest 60 7 Share Travis Metz joins WarTalk today. He was recently promoted to DIU’s acting director after spending the past year running the Drone Dominance Program. Co-hosting are Bryan Clark, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and

Listen to this post: On July 21, 1999, Steve Jobs did something remarkable at Macworld New York: first he went to Apple.com, then to “CNN Interactive”, then to Disney.com. That wasn’t the remarkable part: what blew the crowd away was when he picked up the just-introduced iBook an

Big Tech’s newest personal agents — Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots — promise to book tables at restaurants, buy groceries, and carry out other types of digital grunt work for users. Consumers are opting in. Muse has been downloaded 9 million times in the U.S. and Canada since its

Listen to this post: On July 21, 1999, Steve Jobs did something remarkable at Macworld New York: first he went to Apple.com, then to “CNN Interactive”, then to Disney.com. That wasn’t the remarkable part: what blew the crowd away was when he picked up the just-introduced iBook an

Multibagger stocks in India: Ace investor of the US, Charlie Munger, once said that money is not in buying and selling of stocks, but in waiting. The American businessman wanted to convey the money-making trick that most stock market investors ignore: buy, hold, and forget. The m