Toyota, a Japanese automaker, announced on Thursday that it would increase its investment in a facility in the state of Guanajuato, central Mexico, by $328 million as it tries to modify its manufacturing procedures for a new hybrid version of its Tacoma pickup vehicle.
In their most recent annual study on the industry, global management consulting and strategic advisory firm Zinnov and venture capital firm Chiratae Ventures reduced the 2026 revenue forecasts of Indian software-as-a-service or SaaS startups from $100 billion to $26 billion.
According to research by Brand Finance, the multi-industry conglomerate Tata Group, which produces everything from salt to software, has maintained its title as India’s most valuable brand and has surpassed the $25 billion threshold. The worldwide brand value consultancy performs this task each year. Infosys, a significant player in the IT industry, is still in second place.
On Monday, the Swiss international investment bank UBS announced that it would purchase Credit Suisse “as soon as June 12.” Following a government-backed rescue earlier this year, this takeover would result in a massive balance sheet of $1.6 trillion.
According to the first-ever hospitality study published by real estate consulting firm CBRE South Asia, Indian hospitality investments are probably going to reach $2.3 billion over the next two to
By 2025, a global marketplace for soil carbon, developed by an entrepreneur from Karnataka Boomitra, would provide USD 200 million in carbon finance to farmers and ranchers in developing nations
In its second seed-stage fundraising round, Northstar Ventures, a private equity firm supported by TPG Capital, raised $4.25 million for Locofy.ai, a front-end development acceleration platform that employs artificial intelligence
In an effort to stimulate domestic production, the federal government announced a few weeks prior that import duties on automobiles and motorcycles, including electric vehicles (EVs), would be increased. With
According to insiders, a deal to buy a minority position in the dairy products company Milky Mist, based in Tamil Nadu, is about to be finalized by India-focused investment vehicle
The founder and CEO of the fintech company, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, announced on May 6 that, Paytm plans to use generative AI for fraud detection, customer service, and onboarding, customer
To enable international commerce for Indian enterprises through its international trade financing platform, KredX GTX, the supply chain financing platform KredX has received final permission from the International Financial Services
The ChatGPT chatbot’s developer, OpenAI, reportedly completed a $300 million share sale at a $27 billion to $29 billion value. Venture Capital companies including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz,
The “big four” accounting firms—Deloitte, EY (Ernst & Young), KPMG, and PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)—maintain a sizable presence in India, and this presence is anticipated to expand in the future as a
Beyond big metropolises like Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, the popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing. EVs are becoming more popular in non-metropolitan cities as they aim to appeal to
The iPhone manufacturer also inked a lease deal that forbids roughly two dozen technology, electronics, and e-commerce companies from setting up shop anywhere close to its soon-to-be-opened store at Mumbai’s
Amul, the cooperative that manages the nation’s largest dairy industry and the former managing director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) Sodhi, has joined Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, a
Tesla Inc. reported record quarterly vehicle deliveries on Sunday, but despite price reductions brought on by increased competition and a gloomy economic outlook, quarter-over-quarter sales growth was modest. Tesla increased
On March 31, 2023, in New Delhi, the New Foreign Trade Policy 2023–2028 was revealed by the Union Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Textiles Piyush Goyal. Santosh Kumar Sarangi, director
The Microsoft Power Platform line of business is thrilled to announce a strategic alliance with QualityKiosk Technologies, one of the largest independent digital quality assurance experts and a pioneer in
Mystifly, a leading vertical SaaS and marketplace provider for the airline industry with headquarters in Singapore, announced today that its Series B fundraising round with CSVP (Cornerstone Venture Partners) has
According to a report titled “2023 Global Payments Report” from global financial technology leader FIS, as unified payments interface (UPI)-based transactions continue to shatter all records, India’s ecommerce market is
A factory in India will be built to manufacture Apple’s AirPods by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The agreement highlights Foxconn’s
The major corporations in South Korea, including Samsung Electronics Co., will join a government initiative to invest $422 billion by 2026 in industries including chips and electric vehicles, marking the
Jaguar Land Rover, a premium brand owned by the Tata Group, is collaborating with Tata Technologies, a leading provider of engineering, product development, and digital services, to further its industrial
Vedanta Resources’ founder, Anil Agarwal, has used Twitter to stress the significance of increasing domestic exploration and production in India. He said that such an increase would result in more
The battery manufacturer PowerCo of the European carmaker Volkswagen has announced plans to build its first “gigafactory” for manufacturing battery cells outside of Europe in St. Thomas, southwest Ontario. The
At a “fruitful meeting” with Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed next-generation digital infrastructure. In a tweet, the prime minister acknowledged the change. A productive
Welspun One Logistics Parks (WOLP), an integrated fund and development management platform with a focus on industrial and warehousing real estate, announced the formation of its second fund, with a
EV manufacturing in India will increase India’s dependence on China for raw materials, mineral processing, and battery production, according to a GTRI report. According to the Global Trade Research Initiative,
Indian Railways (IR) broke the record for the greatest February monthly freight loading in 2023, loading 124.03 million metric tonnes (MT) of freight. The incremental loading for February was 4.26
Greenko Energy Holdings, situated in Hyderabad, has raised $700 million in equity capital from its founders, GIC, an ADIA-affiliated wholly-owned subsidiary, and ORIX Corporation, a Japanese financial conglomerate. The business
Cashfree, a company that develops payments and banking technology, announced on Tuesday that it had strategically acquired Zecpe, a one-click checkout provider, to improve its direct-to-consumer (D2C) checkout capabilities and
Kratos Studios, a web-based game firm, reported raising Rs 160 crore in a seed round that was led by Accel and included Prosus Ventures, Courtside Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Nazara
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Mintoak, which specialises in merchant services, has secured $20 million, including participation from PayPal Ventures, British International Investment, and current investors HDFC Bank and Pravega Ventures. The
To facilitate quicker and more affordable cross-border remittance transfers, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of India and PayNow of Singapore will be connected. On February 21, cross-border connectivity would essentially
Indian defense exports are expected to reach $5 billion by 2024–2025, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who also predicted that India will soon become the world’s largest defense manufacturing
On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially open the 246-kilometer Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot portion of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. The new segment is expected to cut the trip from the capital city
Today, Tata Motors unveiled its RDE and E20 compliant BS6 Phase II lineup of passenger vehicles. Additionally, the carmaker has enhanced its standard warranty across the board from 2 Years/
A survey published on Thursday revealed that WhatsApp is the best user-friendly digital product and service for people with impairments in India. I-Stem, Mission Accessibility, PhonePe, Paytm, Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon,
Adani-Hindenburg: A senior Standard Chartered banker stated that the lender has fairly little exposure to these instruments and that such precautions are taken to protect the bank and the clients.
According to insiders, Vedanta-Foxconn are almost ready to announce STMicroelectronics as their technical partner for their prospective semiconductor chip manufacturing facility in India. The joint venture (JV) that was launched
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence firm developing a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has received approximately $400 million from Google, an Alphabet Inc. company, according to reports. Anthropic will employ Google’s cloud
The nation would invest Rs 35,000 crore in the transition to greener energy, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman declared on Wednesday. “Rs 35,000 core in priority capital investment on energy
An Agriculture Accelerator Fund will be established to support agri-startups by young entrepreneurs, according to an announcement made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday during her budget address. The
The tsunami of layoffs has completely destroyed the Indian IT industry, and well-known Indian Unicorn Startups companies like Swiggy, Dunzo, and ShareChat have all dramatically decreased their employee sizes. After
India, the world’s soon-to-be third-largest economy (and its largest democracy), is surpassing all other significant middle-income nations in the coming decades, according to an analysis by Eurasia Group. India’s rise
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