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2 months ago | 
the-ken.com | hari krishna |Gaurav Bagur |Suprita Anupam |Nuha Bubere
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | hari krishna |Gaurav Bagur |Rounak Kumar Gunjan |Shristi Achar
Move beyond cliched presents this holiday season. Instead, gift something that fuels intellect and inspires change. Share the joy of knowledge with your dear ones. Gift Now Dang, you’re out of gift subscriptions We currently limit the number of free gift subscriptions per subscriber. You’ll get more when you renew your subscription. In the meantime, if you want to tell someone about The Ken, gift them a story. Not now, thanks.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Rahel Philipose |hari krishna |Gaurav Bagur |Rounak Kumar Gunjan
A couple years ago, quick commerce platforms were the place to be for up and coming brands across the country. Just a little sliver of real estate on a rapid delivery app was enough to put them on the map. But now, many of these brands are very quickly realising that success on a Blinkit or a Zepto is a double edged sword. With it comes high commissions, marketing fees, and the constant pressure to never run out of inventory. Some brands have now had enough. How did it get here?
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Rahel Philipose |hari krishna |Gaurav Bagur |Rounak Kumar Gunjan
Hurun India began curating rich lists a decade ago. Now, it has moved up ahead of ranking giants like Bloomberg and Forbes with 17 lists so far. It has a Global 500 list, similar to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index. In fact, at this point, it’s safe to say that it has replaced Forbes as the most trusted choice for bankers and wealth managers. Hurun has managed to turn showing it off into a cultural trend despite the fact that wealth is often wrapped in secrecy in a country like India.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rahel Philipose |Shristi Achar |Sudeshna Ray |Gaurav Bagur
What put iPhone city on the map is that it produces more than half of the world’s iPhone’s every single year. The global demand for the Apple iPhone has only increased over the years. To keep up with that demand Foxconn hires up to 200,000 workers – a mix of migrants and college students – to make sure that the assembly lines keep running. Especially during the peak season which happens to begin right around now, from September to February.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | hari krishna |Gaurav Bagur |Ruhi Kandhari |Anand Kalyanaraman
Mithun: My assumption is that the actual net borrowing rate for a bank, or its cost of capital, has been going up year-on-year. Because the current account surplus has been going down, and people are putting money in other places… people are saving less… And hence, they are also borrowing more from the open capital markets. So there’s a little pressure on the banks.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Shristi Achar |Gaurav Bagur |Anand Kalyanaraman
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Snigdha Sharma |Rohin Dharmakumar |Shristi Achar |Gaurav Bagur
The world of cyber fraud has gotten even murkier thanks to a slick new tech service that is streamlining fraud for scammers and making them even harder to track down. This new concept is called ‘Mule-as-a-service’ or MaaS. It’s kind of like a plug-and-play fraud tech where service providers are able to deploy an army of mules on behalf of cybercriminals. These mules are people who lend their bank accounts to move dirty money for cybercriminals.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Gaurav Bagur
It was 10:30 a.m. on 21 November. Motorcyclists, like clockwork, began appearing outside a grey-shuttered building in Bengaluru’s Kalyan Nagar locality. They flashed a code on their phones to the on-site staff, who hurriedly handed over a large backpack filled with parcels for each rider. Space was tight, and personal items—staff members’ bike helmets and handbags—were squeezed in on a rack alongside the packages.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Praveen Gopal Krishnan |Sudeshna Ray |Gaurav Bagur |Rounak Kumar Gunjan
Narayan: What I would look for first is product portfolio. This is a fast-evolving market, and (whether) you call them use cases, or functionality, whatever it is, there is more to be explored. One thing is clear—everyone who is in need of buying vehicles is thinking about going electric. And the large belly of the market, which is what everybody is eyeing, is the commuter customer. Be they riding scooters or 100–125cc motorcycles, that commuter customer is the big fish.
