Bigger loans lift digital lenders’ books 28% as outstanding accounts declineDigital lenders in India experienced a notable 28% increase in their personal-loan portfolios over the past year. The number of outstanding...
01 Oct, 2026, 12.52 AM IST
India’s industrial jobs cross 2 cr mark in 2024-25India's industrial workforce increased to over 2 crore in 2024-25, driven largely by the manufacturing sector. The registered manufacturing...
30 Sep, 2026, 08.06 PM IST
India’s 8% global gems, jewellery share has room to growIndia's gems and jewellery sector currently accounts for 8% of global exports but can expand into new product categories. NITI Aayog's Prav...
30 Sep, 2026, 06.27 PM IST
In 2004, Peter Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook. 8 years later, his early bet had turned into more than $1 billionPeter Thiel put $500,000 into Facebook in 2004, when the company was worth about $5 million. It was a small private business then, not the ...
30 Sep, 2026, 06.03 PM IST
Quote of the day by Jean Marie Eveillard: "If you are a value investor, every now and then you lag, or experience what consultants call tracking error. It can be very painful. To be a value investor, you have to be willing to suffer pain."Renowned investor Jean-Marie Eveillard says value investing requires patience, discipline and the willingness to endure painful periods of ...
30 Sep, 2026, 05.17 PM IST
Lessons from Chinese AI Firms on Owning Customers’ HabitsAs U.S. AI firms compete in an escalating race for superior models, bigger benchmarks, and more advanced features, Chinese companies are pu...
30 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
China's AI agents can lie and scheme - just like their US rivalsReuters examined more than 200 documents, ranging from university research papers to technical reports, and identified at least 20 studies ...
29 Sep, 2026, 05.47 PM IST
Beijing widens travel curbs to kin of top chip, AI talentGovernment agencies have recently begun to share the wider restrictions with affected people, which include prominent startup founders as w...
29 Sep, 2026, 12.34 AM IST
Arisinfra Solutions ups stake in subsidiary Buildmex-Infra to 92%Arisinfra Solutions will acquire an additional 16% stake in material subsidiary Buildmex-Infra for Rs 60 crore, raising its holding to 92%....
28 Sep, 2026, 07.19 PM IST
India's 4G smartphone shipments set to grow 3% in 2026 amid broader market slump: CounterpointIndia's 4G smartphone market is projected to grow by three percent year-on-year in 2026. Shipment shares are expected to increase from 11 p...
28 Sep, 2026, 04.55 PM IST
ETMarkets NRI Talk | AI’s 30x sales premium: Apurva Sheth on OpenAI, Anthropic and the valuation debateOpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly commanding valuations that translate into roughly 30-38 times price-to-sales, compared with around 3.7 ...
28 Sep, 2026, 09.53 AM IST
China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips: The InformationChina's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to report their plans to p...
28 Sep, 2026, 12.11 AM IST
Share of high-value micro loans rise: ReportThe share of high-value microfinance loans above ₹75,000 to individual borrowers rose to 41% in Q1 FY27, from 28% a year earlier, as lender...
25 Sep, 2026, 01.29 PM IST
China chipmaker CanSemi seeks to raise up to $918.5 million in Shenzhen listingChinese chipmaker CanSemi Technology is seeking to raise 6.16 billion yuan ($918.5 million) in a Shenzhen listing after pricing its shares ...
23 Sep, 2026, 05.21 PM IST
China's Alibaba launches international data centre pushChinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled plans on Wednesday to expand its overseas data centres, targeting markets across Europe and the Middle ...
23 Sep, 2026, 10.33 AM IST
Alibaba plans AI model with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters, unveils new chipSpeaking at Alibaba Cloud's annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Wu said the company's Qwen team was continuing research into model archit...
22 Sep, 2026, 08.57 AM IST
Quote of the Day by Jack Ma: ‘We are never short of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams’ - Inspirational quote from Chinese philanthropist and co-founder of AlibabaJack Ma believes people with dreams are more crucial than money for business success. He argues that capital can be found for convincing id...
22 Sep, 2026, 12.13 AM IST