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2 months ago | 
the-ken.com | Seema Singh |Abhijith S Warrier
If the headline seems confusing, it’s not on you. Two long-standing companies of similar names, same and sound-alike promoters, in the same business, operating mostly in the same region, can play a trick on wits. Dr Agarwal’s Healthcare, the eyecare chain that was valued at over Rs 12,600 crore ($1.4 billion) by its anchor investors in late January, lists on the bourses today.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Anand Kalyanaraman |Abhijith S Warrier
The bulls rampaging through the Indian stock market have been in retreat for the past couple of months. Since 30 September, the Sensex and Nifty 50, the indices tracking the largest stocks in the country, gave up close to 10% of their value until last week. Ditto for the mid-cap and small-cap benchmark indices. But these markers and averages often conceal more than they reveal. As you climb down the small-cap ladder to micro-cap stocks, the cuts get much deeper.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Ateesh Tankha |Ganga Narayan Rath |Abhijith S Warrier
On 17 October, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) barred four non-banks—Navi Finserv, DMI Finance, Asirvad Micro Finance, and Arohan Financial Services—from sanctioning and disbursing new loans, citingThe Indian Express‘Excessive pricing’: RBI bars 4 NBFCs from giving loans the now proverbial catchall: “material supervisory concerns”. Normally, the banking regulator’s action wouldn’t have caused a flutter by itself.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Seema Singh |Abhijith S Warrier
The grey glass facade of the red brick building is embossed with images of scooters, motorcycles, bicycles, cars, power tools, and the like. Sedemac Mechatronics’ office on Baner Road in Pune screams “engineering” at first glance. A few minutes into the conversation inside, co-founder and chief technology officer Amit Dixit casually said: “Sedemac is a company run by engineers, not by business people.” Everything makes sense.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Luna Yue Huang |Abhijith S Warrier
This story is only available to subscribers of The Ken. Already a subscriber? Log inUnrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from award-winning journalists. Read by 5,00,000+ subscribers globally who want to be prepared for what comes next. Only Free+ Premium PodcastsFree + Premium PodcastsCovering the most interesting workplaces, career and business trends, along with candid conversations with founders and business leaders.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Shanies Tri Pinasthi |Abhijith S Warrier
This story is only available to subscribers of The Ken. Already a subscriber? Log inUnrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from award-winning journalists. Read by 5,00,000+ subscribers globally who want to be prepared for what comes next. Only Free+ Premium PodcastsFree + Premium PodcastsCovering the most interesting workplaces, career and business trends, along with candid conversations with founders and business leaders.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Isabel Martínez |Abhijith S Warrier
This story is only available to subscribers of The Ken. Already a subscriber? Log inUnrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from award-winning journalists. Read by 5,00,000+ subscribers globally who want to be prepared for what comes next. Only Free+ Premium PodcastsFree + Premium PodcastsCovering the most interesting workplaces, career and business trends, along with candid conversations with founders and business leaders.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Seema Singh |Abhijith S Warrier
P Raja Manickam is pushing all his chips to the centre of the table. At 68, he’s founded his second semiconductor startup, iVP Semiconductor, investing US$5 million of his own and friends’ money even when investors and family offices are queuing up to cut cheques. The startup is neither a chip-design company nor a service provider and is outsourcing both to build semiconductor products.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Arundhati Ramanathan |Abhijith S Warrier
A big part of Apple’s record high sales in India is thanks to the affordability programmes it has with the likes of HDFC Bank. But the lenders pay a heavy price for it Buying an Apple product is an emotional investment. The money you splurge on the latest iPhone cannot be rationally justified by doing some cold, hard math on a spreadsheet. Turns out, even for banks, which live and die by the balance sheet, partnering with the trillion-dollar tech giant cannot be fully justified.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Jeff Hutton |Abhijith S Warrier
In June, a massive ransomware attack on government entities in Indonesia—the country that’s been attracting billions of dollars in Big Tech investment—took down over 280 systems, including those of 30 central ministries and over a dozen provinces. While it may take nearly a year to assess the damage that hackers wreaked on these systems, according to cybersecurity experts, the episode raises questions about safety and governance in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
