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According to the findings of a survey on hiring and recruitment trends by Ciel HR Services, about 67% of the workforce is open to transition to established firms. The report is based on the data and analysis of 130,896 employees across 70 startups in India, along with 8746 job postings sourced from various job portals.

Kumar joining Nexus Venture Partners adds to a long list of top personnel changes at venture firms in India over the last 8-10 months. He was previously at startup accelerator Y Combinator and had also founded Supr Daily along with Shreyas Nagdawane and Rohit Jain.

In a wide-ranging interview with Sameer Ranjan Bakshi, Beena Parmar and Surabhi Agarwal, Salil Parekh, chief executive and managing director of Infosys, spoke of his plans to prepare the $18.6 billion software services giant — through its Topaz platform — for the GenAI-led transformation that will take root as global macro-economic concerns ease.

Over the past year-and-a-half, online fashion retailer Myntra has gained market share even as rivals like Reliance Ajio and Nykaa Fashion have snapped at its heels, chief executive Nandita Sinha told ET in an interview–without naming the competition.

The AI agent, Beckn Generative Pre-trained Transformer or BecknGPT, is an open-source demonstration app over Open AIs ChatGPT.

Business-to-business (B2B) banking tech startup Gravity will use the fresh capital to strengthen “our engineering strength to build the product and take it to the next version, offering the best in product engineering we can,” cofounder and chief executive Satish Krishnaswamy told ET.

Amazons AWS in talks with Italy to invest billions in expanding data centre business, boosting cloud offer in Europe.

Chinese social media censors have blocked multiple influencers known for showing off their lavish lifestyles after an official campaign to curb displays of ostentatious wealth online was announced. Chinas internet watchdog in April launched the "Clear and Bright" campaign to remove undesirable content from social media, vowing to crack down on influencers who created "ostentatious personas to cater to vulgar needs, and deliberately display extravagant lifestyles filled with money...

BluSmart, Indias top electric cab operator, aims to raise $300 million to expand its fleet with cars from top manufacturers, targeting major cities for premium service. The company focuses on electrification and sustainability efforts in India, with plans to double revenue by 2025.

Indias Agnikul Cosmos delayed the Agnibaan rocket launch to test igniter performance. The rocket can carry 300 kg to orbits 700 km high. Skyroot launched Indias first privately developed rocket in 2022 from ISROs site.