By Andy Mukherjee
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Opinion: Bengaluru Should Listen To Sam Altman's Advice On AI
India's tech industry is being less than bold in embracing artificial intelligence. Its hoping to create solutions for corporate clients by building on top of somebody elses investment in foundational technologies.
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Opinion: Bengaluru Can't Deal With SVB If It Is Stuck In Traffic
Bengaluru has been dealt a terrible hand by politicians. India's software powerhouse earned its spurs by managing tech for global multinationals. Now it's even shielding local startups from the falling debris in US banking.
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Opinion: Gautam Adani Strikes Back. Can He Win The Perception War?
Gautam Adani, the tycoon under attack by a New York-based short-seller, has outdone his accuser 4:1: The rebuttal put out by his group Sunday night in India runs into 413 pages.
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Opinion: Budget 2023 - What To Expect From PM Modi
PM Modi's core economic agenda is to promote India as a rival manufacturing destination to China. He has sought to achieve this by incentivizing private factory expenditure and allocating more state resources to infrastructure, particularly rail and road. uncertain global demand and lackluster domestic consumption may keep a lid on private invest...
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Opinion: India And China - A 2023 Tale Of Two Markets
Compared with a year-and-a-half ago, when its economy had just begun to reopen after a devastating surge of the delta variant, India's stock market is unchanged in dollar terms.
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Opinion: Gautam Adani's New "Ferrari" Plan Could Confront Traffic Jam
Gautam Adani is ready to unveil his much-hyped super-app, made by an in-house startup he wants to be "the Ferrari of the digital world."
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Opinion: The Big Problem With India's Data Protection Bill
India's previous attempt at framing a law on personal-data protection had made 21 references to "privacy," starting by acknowledging it as a fundamental right.
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Opinion: Why Mukesh Ambani Is Spinning Off Jio Financial Services Ltd.
To record all the words ever spoken by humankind, five exabytes of storage would be enough. Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani's telecom customers used up nearly six times as much data last quarter.
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Opinion: Oops, Wrong Hyundai. India's Industrial Policy Misfires - Again
It took a public notice from Hyundai Motor Co. - asserting that the successful bid by Hyundai Global Motors had nothing to do with it - for bureaucrats to realize that they had backed the wrong horse.
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Is India at Risk of Chinese-Style Surveillance Capitalism?: Andy Mukherjee
India’s privacy debate has seen major changes in the last few years. The government has recently scraped the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with “a comprehensive legal framework”. This may bring little cheer to Big Tech if the replacement turns out to be even more draconian. Twitter and Meta’s WhatsApp have already...
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Opinion: GST, Historical Tax Reform, At 5 Years, Has Lost Its Way
Five years ago, India's federal and state governments struck a historic deal. From July 1, 2017, a uniform tax on goods and services - marketed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "One Nation, One Tax, One Market" - replaced a bewildering array of loc
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Opinion: Startup Led By Indian-Origin Ankiti Bose Turns Into Dumpster Fire
Zilingo Pte was until recently a rising star in the world of fashion e-commerce, and its glamorous leader Ankiti Bose was a model young achiever.
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Opinion: The Significance Of Tata Hiring Campbell Wilson As Air India CEO
As travel resumes and the carrier moves past the record annual loss it was reporting around this time last year, Chief Executive Officer Goh Choon Phong wants to pursue a multi-hub strategy, one in which airlines owned by it will benefit from aviatio
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Opinion: India's EV Battery Race Is Led By A Newbie Scooter Maker
Ola Electric Mobility Pvt., a Bengaluru-based startup, will get state support to manufacture EV batteries that can store a total of 20 gigawatt-hours of power, the government said on March 24.
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Opinion: Digital Rupee Needs More Thought, Less Haste
India has surprised the payments world by announcing that its central bank will issue a digital currency as early as the coming financial year, a crucial decision that most other major economies are refusing to make in a hurry.
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Opinion: Bengaluru Should Listen To Sam Altman's Advice On AI
India's tech industry is being less than bold in embracing artificial intelligence. Its hoping to create solutions for corporate clients by building on top of somebody elses investment in foundational technologies.
-
Opinion: Bengaluru Can't Deal With SVB If It Is Stuck In Traffic
Bengaluru has been dealt a terrible hand by politicians. India's software powerhouse earned its spurs by managing tech for global multinationals. Now it's even shielding local startups from the falling debris in US banking.
-
Opinion: Gautam Adani Strikes Back. Can He Win The Perception War?
Gautam Adani, the tycoon under attack by a New York-based short-seller, has outdone his accuser 4:1: The rebuttal put out by his group Sunday night in India runs into 413 pages.
-
Opinion: Budget 2023 - What To Expect From PM Modi
PM Modi's core economic agenda is to promote India as a rival manufacturing destination to China. He has sought to achieve this by incentivizing private factory expenditure and allocating more state resources to infrastructure, particularly rail and road. uncertain global demand and lackluster domestic consumption may keep a lid on private invest...
-
Opinion: India And China - A 2023 Tale Of Two Markets
Compared with a year-and-a-half ago, when its economy had just begun to reopen after a devastating surge of the delta variant, India's stock market is unchanged in dollar terms.
-
Opinion: Gautam Adani's New "Ferrari" Plan Could Confront Traffic Jam
Gautam Adani is ready to unveil his much-hyped super-app, made by an in-house startup he wants to be "the Ferrari of the digital world."
-
Opinion: The Big Problem With India's Data Protection Bill
India's previous attempt at framing a law on personal-data protection had made 21 references to "privacy," starting by acknowledging it as a fundamental right.
-
Opinion: Why Mukesh Ambani Is Spinning Off Jio Financial Services Ltd.
To record all the words ever spoken by humankind, five exabytes of storage would be enough. Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani's telecom customers used up nearly six times as much data last quarter.
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Opinion: Oops, Wrong Hyundai. India's Industrial Policy Misfires - Again
It took a public notice from Hyundai Motor Co. - asserting that the successful bid by Hyundai Global Motors had nothing to do with it - for bureaucrats to realize that they had backed the wrong horse.
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Is India at Risk of Chinese-Style Surveillance Capitalism?: Andy Mukherjee
India’s privacy debate has seen major changes in the last few years. The government has recently scraped the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with “a comprehensive legal framework”. This may bring little cheer to Big Tech if the replacement turns out to be even more draconian. Twitter and Meta’s WhatsApp have already...
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Opinion: GST, Historical Tax Reform, At 5 Years, Has Lost Its Way
Five years ago, India's federal and state governments struck a historic deal. From July 1, 2017, a uniform tax on goods and services - marketed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "One Nation, One Tax, One Market" - replaced a bewildering array of loc
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Opinion: Startup Led By Indian-Origin Ankiti Bose Turns Into Dumpster Fire
Zilingo Pte was until recently a rising star in the world of fashion e-commerce, and its glamorous leader Ankiti Bose was a model young achiever.
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Opinion: The Significance Of Tata Hiring Campbell Wilson As Air India CEO
As travel resumes and the carrier moves past the record annual loss it was reporting around this time last year, Chief Executive Officer Goh Choon Phong wants to pursue a multi-hub strategy, one in which airlines owned by it will benefit from aviatio
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Opinion: India's EV Battery Race Is Led By A Newbie Scooter Maker
Ola Electric Mobility Pvt., a Bengaluru-based startup, will get state support to manufacture EV batteries that can store a total of 20 gigawatt-hours of power, the government said on March 24.
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Opinion: Digital Rupee Needs More Thought, Less Haste
India has surprised the payments world by announcing that its central bank will issue a digital currency as early as the coming financial year, a crucial decision that most other major economies are refusing to make in a hurry.
