Ruchi Kumar 
BENGALURU, Aug. 7 — Global payments technology company Visa has appointed Adrija Banerjee as Head of AI Practice for North America (Senior Director), strengthening its leadership team as the company accelerates the adoption of artificial intelligence across its payments and financial services business. Banerjee brings more than a decade of experience spanning artificial intelligence, … Read more
NEW YORK and NOIDA, India, Aug 7, 2026— The race to industrialize artificial intelligence across enterprises is entering a new phase, and partnerships are becoming as important as the technology itself. HCLTech has announced that it has achieved OpenAI Advanced Partner status within the OpenAI Partner Network, reinforcing its position as one of the global … Read more
BENGALURU, Aug 6 (ENN) – Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), India’s largest retailer, said on Wednesday it has acquired Furrl, a Bengaluru-based fashion discovery startup, in an all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum, as it looks to expand its artificial intelligence capabilities in fashion e-commerce. Furrl’s entire team, its proprietary AI styling platform and its … Read more
MUMBAI, Aug 6 ( Entrepreneur News Network): The headline number tells you how many jobs are coming. It does not tell you which skill to build, or how the people already inside these companies are quietly getting there first. The Number: 510,452 India’s Global Capability Centres are on track to cross half a million new … Read more
A decade ago, Startup India was a bet that the country could build companies, not just consume products. Today the bet has matured into something more ambitious: Atmanirbhar Bharat, a push to build the sovereign capability — in chips, rockets, batteries, and quantum machines — that a rising power can no longer afford to import. … Read more
WhatsApp had just killed his last business. So when Ahmet Bahadir Özdemir walked into an investor pitch, he didn’t bring a deck — he brought a eulogy. That single unconventional pitch, backed by Antler, became the origin story of Airalo, now the world’s largest eSIM marketplace. The Pitch That Wasn’t a Pitch Picture a standard … Read more
Padua, Italy: Critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has announced new investments at its Tognana campus near Padua, Italy, aimed at expanding manufacturing capacity and advanced testing capabilities for data center cooling systems. The expansion comes as demand for AI-ready infrastructure and high-density computing continues to surge worldwide. Vertiv expects the investment to double its chiller … Read more
New Delhi, India: Yotta Data Services has launched a ₹10,000 Free Credits Program for Shakti Studio, its AI development and inference platform, aimed at helping developers, startups, enterprises, researchers, and Global Capability Centers (GCCs) build and deploy artificial intelligence applications without the upfront cost of GPU infrastructure. The initiative provides complimentary access to serverless GPU … Read more
New Delhi, India: FMCG major Dabur India Limited has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with Accenture to accelerate enterprise-wide artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, strengthen data-driven decision-making, and build a future-ready digital business. The partnership marks the next phase of Dabur’s digital transformation journey, with a focus on integrating AI across core business functions to improve … Read more
In today’s rapidly evolving digital economy, organizations are under constant pressure to embrace artificial intelligence, automation, cloud computing, and digital transformation. Yet many technology investments fail—not because of the technology itself, but because businesses adopt solutions before understanding the problems they need to solve. For Abhishek Harshay, Principal Consultant & Founder of Nyrmiti, technology has … Read more
Pune, India: Global sportswear giant PUMA Group is strengthening its technology footprint in India with the launch of a new Global Capability Centre (GCC) TechHub in Pune, reinforcing the country’s growing role as a strategic hub for digital engineering, artificial intelligence (AI), and product innovation. The new centre will support PUMA’s global retail and e-commerce … Read more
Gurugram, India: Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has joined UN:BLOC, the new healthcare venture founded by serial entrepreneur Deepak Sahni, as an investor and a member of the company’s founding team. The partnership marks the second entrepreneurial collaboration between the two after their successful association with healthtech company Healthians. The move highlights the growing interest … Read more
Mumbai, India: Coffee equipment and services company Kaapi Machines has secured a ₹50 crore equity investment from Sedna HoReCa (Sedna), a private equity-backed B2B HoReCa solutions provider. Alongside the investment, both companies have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating growth in India’s rapidly expanding coffee and hospitality industry. The partnership is expected to … Read more
Mumbai, India: Professional education company Imarticus Learning has acquired Singapore-based BELLS Institute of Higher Learning, strengthening its presence in Southeast Asia and expanding its capabilities in workforce development, artificial intelligence (AI), enterprise learning, and professional education. The acquisition marks a significant step in Imarticus Learning’s international expansion strategy, bringing together two education providers with a … Read more
Bengaluru, India: AI-powered robotics company Agile Robots has acquired a majority stake in Bengaluru-based XNG Automation, strengthening its presence in India’s fast-growing industrial automation market and accelerating the adoption of intelligent manufacturing solutions. The acquisition will enable Agile Robots to combine its advanced robotics and artificial intelligence technologies with XNG Automation’s expertise in factory automation, … Read more
August 2026: Venture capital activity across Asia remained strong this week, with startups spanning cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, and sports technology collectively raising hundreds of millions of dollars to accelerate growth and product development. Leading this week’s funding activity was cybersecurity startup Onyx Security, which secured $113 million in a Series B … Read more
When the Job Ends, Should the Taxman Still Come Knocking? A viral LinkedIn post about layoffs at Visa’s Bengaluru office has reopened a question India has avoided for years: why severance pay — money meant to keep a family afloat — is taxed like a bonus, while laid-off workers get almost nothing in return. The … Read more
Visakhapatnam, India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lay the foundation stone for ASIP Technologies’ ₹2,388 crore semiconductor facility in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, marking a major milestone in India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing hub. The project will be the first approved semiconductor facility in Andhra Pradesh under the India Semiconductor Mission … Read more
Somewhere between a UPI payment cleared in Bengaluru and a chatbot query answered in Mumbai sits a server rack, humming inside a data centre that likely didn’t exist five years ago. Multiply that rack by thousands, spread it across six states, and you have the outline of what Wood Mackenzie now calls one of Asia-Pacific’s … Read more
Bengaluru, India, July 31, 2026: Infosys Chief Executive Officer Salil Parekh will step down on March 31, 2027, ending a nine-year tenure that helped restore stability at India’s second-largest IT services company and positioned it for the next phase of artificial intelligence-driven growth. Parekh will hand over the role to Ashiss Kumar Dash on April … Read more
