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Balaji Krishnamurthy is appointed as the new chief financial officer (CFO) of Uber. (REUTERS)
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Who is Indian-origin Balaji Krishnamurthy? Uber appoints MDI Gurgaon alum as CFO

Uber Technologies has appointed Indian-origin Balaji Krishnamurthy as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He is a six-year veteran of the company and currently serves…

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Boeing is set to eliminate approximately 300 jobs within its defense division, impacting various locations across the US. (REUTERS file photo for representation)
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Boeing to cut around 300 defense supply chain jobs| Business News

Boeing Co. is eliminating about 300 supply chain jobs from its defense division, and is notifying affected workers this week, according to a person familiar…

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The new Stuffcool ChargeCube 65 launches at  ₹2,999 and is now better suited for flagship smartphones, as well as tablets and even laptops.. (Handout)
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Telecom’s NUF debate, Stuffcool ChargeCube 65, and a near miss| Business News

Opening thoughts. The first bullish communication from Vodafone Idea, in many years, regarding a future roadmap of investment. And more to the point, an intent…

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A SpaceX shuttle. (Official image)
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Elon Musk’s companies plan to build AI data centres, in space| Business News

The fact that two of Elon Musk’s companies are merging, has nothing to do purely with accounting or resources allocation or efficiency or any of…

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Silver is struggling to find a price floor following a historic market rout. (AFP)
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Silver down 16%, gold drops 3.5% as volatility grips precious metals| Business News

Silver fell sharply, erasing a two-day recovery, as the white metal struggled to find a price floor following a historic market rout. Gold also declined….

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The rupee has fallen 5.3% against the US dollar so far this year, putting it on track for its steepest annual decline since 2022. (Reuters)
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RBI may pivot to buying dollars to build forex reserves, analysts say| Business News

The rupee’s biggest rally in seven years will give Reserve Bank of India scope to rebuild its forex reserves, potentially limiting further gains after the…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC. (Reuters)
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The BTS action that led to India-US trade deal| Business News

In early September, shortly after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a chummy meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in China, he dispatched his…

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The stakes are high for Microsoft because Copilot is core to a push by Chief Executive Satya Nadella to transform Microsoft into an AI-first company
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Microsoft’s pivotal AI product is running into big problems| Business News

Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the effort to build it up…

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Anthropic has launched plug-ins for its Claude Cowork agent to automate tasks that IT firms do for their clients by deploying an army of software engineers. (Reuters)
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Anthropic Claude Cowork threatens to upend business model of TCS to Infosys and Wipro| Business News

Shares of Indian IT companies are on track for their worst trading session in nearly six years, after Anthropic’s new AI plugin tools threatened to…

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The pace of job creation hovered just above the 50 mark, signalling stagnation in the labour market. (AI Image)
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India Services PMI rebounds from lowest in nearly a year in January 2026| Business News

Activity in India’s services sector has rebounded from lowest in nearly a year due to new business even as job creation remained stagnant. The pace…

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