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2 months ago | 
moniify.com | Hermi De Ramos |Ankush Chibber
The crypto faithful did not see this coming. They thought their new commander-in-chief wouldn’t slap tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico. Maybe it was just a negotiation tactic? Maybe America’s trade partners wouldn’t fight back? Maybe they forgot Trump is as volatile as crypto itself? They priced in the usual — an underwhelming executive order on crypto, no Bitcoin national reserve, and regulatory shake-ups. But not this. “The dumbest trade war in history.” And they paid for it. Dearly.
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2 months ago | 
moniify.com | Noorhan Abusamra |Ankush Chibber
The Magnificent 7 have carried the market, but their days of running circles around the other 493 stocks might be numbered. In 2023, they flexed with 36% profit growth while the rest of the S&P 500 shrank by 4% — a massive gap. But that gap won’t last forever. Goldman Sachs sees Mag 7 earnings growth cooling to 33% in 2024, while the rest of the market finally turns positive at 3%. Still a gap, but not as ridiculous.
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2 months ago | 
moniify.com | Sumit Kumar |Ronojoy Mazumdar |Yuvraj Malik |Ankush Chibber
The 2025 union budget sends one clear message: spend, spend, spend. With tax cuts fattening wallets, investors piled into stocks of carmakers, FMCG giants, and food delivery firms in a rare Saturday trading session. Short-term demand got a shot in the arm, and investors cheered, but big-ticket reforms? Nowhere to be seen. That puts the pressure on the Reserve Bank of India — if it slashes rates next week, the markets could finally see off the gloom.
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2 months ago | 
moniify.com | Hermi De Ramos |Ankush Chibber
Donald Trump has never been shy about mixing business with politics, but his crypto playbook is fast blurring the line between personal profit and presidential policy. And people are taking notice. Just look on social media, where he’s getting called out for being a shameless grifter. While Trump’s positioned himself as crypto’s loudest cheerleader, his growing web of financial entanglements is raising some serious ethical alarms. The latest venture?
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2 months ago | 
moniify.com | Yuvraj Malik |Ankush Chibber
As ChatGPT and DeepSeek upend the global tech game, India faces a daunting question: can it ever produce an AI contender? With the budget announcement on Saturday, the tech industry is eager for policy shifts that could transform India from a software services giant into an IP-driven innovation powerhouse. India’s tech ecosystem has thrived on consumer tech — Jio, Flipkart, Swiggy — but true disruption has been scarce in AI and deep tech.
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2 months ago | 
moniify.com | Yuvraj Malik |Ankush Chibber
Donald Trump spilled the tea on a possible mega-deal Monday night: Microsoft is back in the chase for TikTok. The Windows maker is leading the pack of potential buyers for ByteDance’s American TikTok arm. This isn’t Microsoft’s first rodeo. Back in 2020, during Trump’s first TikTok tantrum, the company was also in the running to snap up the app. For Microsoft, this is more than a shot at redemption in social media (anyone remember the LinkedIn gamble?). Read more: TikTok’s back. So what’s next?
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
moniify.com | Chantal Fouad |Ankush Chibber
TikTok, the app that taught America how to renegotiate its relationship with attention spans, told its 170 million US users on Saturday that it’s going “temporarily” offline under a new national security law that takes effect Sunday, 19 January. The news broke via a pop-up message:“We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable,” the company wrote.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
moniify.com | Khamila Mulia |Ankush Chibber
Vietnam is racing to modernize its manufacturing sector, and Vingroup, the country’s chaebol, wants a slice. In just two months, it’s launched two robotics subsidiaries, signaling big ambitions in this high-tech space. Vingroup has committed 1 trillion Vietnamese dong ($39 million) each to VinMotion and VinRobotics. Launched in January, VinMotion will focus on general-purpose humanoid robots, while VinRobotics, introduced in November, will specialize in industrial robots. Ownership is tightly held.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
moniify.com | Yuvraj Malik |Ankush Chibber
Logistics startup Ripplr is in the final stages of closing a $30 million equity investment round led by SBI Ventures, the venture capital arm of India’s largest public sector bank, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Existing backers, including Japan’s Sojitz Corporation, Fireside Ventures, and 3one4 Capital, are also chipping in. The series C round is set to double Ripplr’s valuation to about $200 million, two of the sources confirmed toMONIIFY.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
moniify.com | Hermi De Ramos |Ankush Chibber
Crypto ETFs are soaring in the US, with heavyweights already plotting the next wave — XRP ETFs might be coming “very soon,” Ripple’s Monica Long teased. But in Asia? The market feels stuck in neutral despite growing retail interest and soaring US adoption. Hong Kong, UAE, and Singapore are seeing growth driven by grassroots adoption, everyday crypto payments, and DeFi use, according to Chainalysis’ 2024 Global Crypto Adoption Index. But in terms of digital assets tied to ETFs? Not so much.
