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The new year has begun on a sombre note for people working in large and well-capitalised startups as companies like Swiggy, Flipkart, and Paytm are laying off a sizable chunk of their teams.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her interim budget speech said 8.3 million self-help groups with 90 million women are transforming the rural socio-economic landscape with empowerment and self-reliance. The government has decided to enhance the target for Lakhpati Didis from 20 million women to 30 million. The Lakhpati Didi scheme is aimed at encouraging women to start micro-enterprises within their villages and training women in self-help groups to enable them to earn at least ₹1 lakh ...

Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) has fallen out of favor as an ad performance metric for retail brands. What should take its place?

The fundraising will allow Rakuten to fully buy back its 10.25% senior notes and 3.546% senior notes due in 2024, which have a combined principal outstanding of $1.75 billion.

A formal decision in this regard, however, will be made only after discussions with the board and consent from shareholders, he added.

Despite facing global challenges in 2023 like valuation issues, few IPOs, regulatory changes and macroeconomic and geopolitical trends, India remains the third largest tech startup ecosystem globally, with over 950 tech startups founded last year.

Biometric POS terminals will handle 46 billion transactions globally by 2028, more than doubling the transactions recorded last year from 19.5 billion...

Policybazaar parent PB Fintech on Tuesday reported its first ever net profit on the back of strong revenue growth for the quarter ended December 2023. ​​This and more in todays ETtech Top 5.

Amazon announced in 2022 that it would buy iRobot, maker of the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, for $1.7 billion in cash. But the value of the deal fell 15% after iRobot incurred new debt.