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Hello,It’s a party at the bourses.Urban Company’s shares surged on their stock market debut on Wednesday, listing at more than a 57% premium to the IPO price, after drawing frenzied demand in the primary market. The Gurugram-based home services platform’s shares settled 64% higher from the issue price at Rs 169 per share on the NSE.The company’s m-cap surged to Rs 24,266 crore (nearly $3 billion).Meanwhile, Bengaluru startups seem to be having a tough time.Online trucking platform BlackBuck’s co-founder and CEO Rajesh Yabaji announced that the company will relocate from its office on Bengaluru’s Outer Ring Road, citing commuting difficulties…

Telecom companies face significant challenges managing large, dispersed field operations where delays in technician dispatch and inefficient scheduling lead to prolonged service disruptions and increased costs. Traditionally, reliance on manual coordination often results in misallocation of resources, longer travel times, and poor communication between field teams and management.AI-driven solutions that offer real-time location tracking, intelligent route optimisation, and automated task assignment are addressing these pain points by ensuring the right technicians are dispatched promptly to critical sites, ultimately improving repair times and customer satisfaction.The existing telecom market continues to facilitate connectivity across diverse platforms, but the rising demand for uninterrupted…

Amazon Seller Services, Amazon’s marketplace operator in India, has managed to pull off quite a balancing act, posting a 19% year-on-year increase in revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, while also sharply reducing its net loss.The company reported revenue of Rs 30,139 crore, compared with Rs 25,406 crore a year earlier. Marketplace services contributed Rs 17,328 crore, or 58% of total operating revenue, while additional services such as advertising and logistics added Rs 8,342 crore. Related-party services accounted for Rs 4,468 crore.Net loss narrowed 89% to Rs 374.3 crore from Rs 3,469.5 crore in FY24, aided by…

In a world where news about Artificial Intelligence is developing by the minute, it’s hard to keep up with the innovators, the changemakers and disruptors. Just in this week alone, AI has had a significant impact on everything from animated feature films, cooking devices, stethoscopes, and the iPhone 17 launch. To make it more exciting – AI100 is back with its fifth cohort.From seasoned industry pros to bold founders and fearless tech mavericks, every cohort brings together a diverse set of minds with one thing in common: they’re shaping the future of AI.The fifth AI100 cohort is packed with game-changers…

Keshav Kumar, Head of Engineering, bigbasket.com, first encountered Artificial Intelligence (AI) as he sat in a classroom at Visvesvaraya Technological University learning about neural networks.“We had a six-month course that equated how neurons in the brain work to how neural networks function. It was fascinating and planted the first seeds of curiosity for me,” Kumar recalls.Back then, access to infrastructure and data in India was limited. But what Kumar lacked in resources, he more than made up for through brainstorming sessions and problem-solving discussions.These early days would be the catalyst for Kumar’s professional journey. At NetApp, he began to find…

Airbnb’s growth has slowed in recent years, says the company’s CEO, Brian Chesky, but he has a plan to remedy the situation.In an interview on Tuesday at the Skift Global Forum conference, an event for the travel industry, Chesky noted that Airbnb experienced 40% growth in 2022, but that number declined to 18% in 2023 and then 12% in 2024. For the second quarter ending June 30, revenue growth was at 13%.”I’m not happy about where the growth rate is at the company,” Chesky said at the event. “I think Airbnb should be growing significantly faster. It should at least…

When M2P Fintech began its journey in late 2014, the word ‘FinTech’ was still unfamiliar to most. Banking technology and software existed, but the thriving ecosystem we know today was just starting to take shape. For Prabhu Rangarajan, co-founder of M2P, the seeds of this journey had been sown nearly a decade earlier during his master’s in Information Technology at Madras University.In 2005, an elective on artificial neural networks introduced him to the idea that machines could mimic human intelligence. Guided by his professor, Prabhu experimented with how neural networks could detect patterns and act on them. His project imagined…

Vijayender Karnaty was drawn to Artificial Intelligence in stages. During his time at the Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur (IIT), two topics caught his attention: information theory and distributed systems, both of which are intrinsically linked to AI.Information theory, which Vijayender calls a beautiful measure of uncertainty, is a branch of mathematics that deals with the quantification, storage, and communication of information. Distributed systems, a collection of independent computers or nodes connected by a network, caught Vijayender’s eye because of how these machines work together as one to achieve a goal.The pivotal turn of a pageAnother pivotal moment Vijayender…

Andy Jassy is trying to reset Amazon’s culture by getting rid of excess layers of middle management.The Amazon CEO stated on Tuesday at the company’s annual conference for third-party sellers that he wanted to eliminate bureaucracy to help Amazon grow and innovate more quickly. Bureaucracy is not compatible with “startups” and “entrepreneurial organizations,” but it is “really easy to accumulate,” according to Jassy.”I would say bureaucracy is really anathema to startups and to entrepreneurial organizations,” Jassy said at the event. “As you get larger, it’s really easy to accumulate bureaucracy, a lot of bureaucracy that you may not see.” Related:…

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan founded the video communications company in 2011 when he was 41 years old and took it public in 2019. As of September 2025, Zoom had a market cap of $25.66 billion.But despite 15 years of daily practice, he still thinks video calls can be better, because the best meetings are when people “can be themselves,” he told The New York Times.Here’s Yuan’s advice for making your Zoom calls more productive.Be accessibleYuan says that he has a Zoom meeting link in his email signature so that people can set up calls with him.Related: 13 Leadership Lessons from…