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2 months ago | 
the-ken.com | Rahul Chaudhary |Seema Singh |Anand Kalyanaraman |Shristi Achar
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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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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 8, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Shristi Achar
Bengaluru’s Indkal Technologies has rapidly scaled by cranking out appliances for Acer and Black+Decker—without even owning a factory It leans on contract manufacturers like Dixon and Amber to handle production while it focuses on product design, sales, and service Whether through aggressive pricing or superior features and service, Indkal’s revenue has surged in the past two years But with razor-thin margins and macroeconomic headwinds, Indkal’s survival is the canary in the coal mine for an...
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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 20, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Shristi Achar
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. Your email is on its way! To track your gifted stories, go to your Account Settings We’ve emailed your gift link. Want us to send some more?
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Shristi Achar
It came, it saw, and it blitzscaled. That’s one way of summing up what this Bengaluru-based aggregator of factories has been up to in recent years. And industry giants and small businesses alike are happy being the wind beneath its wings. In September, Zetwerk bagged a Rs 2,500 crore (US$300 million) orderMintZetwerk secures solar PV module manufacturing order worth about ₹2,500 crore from NTPC from the state-run power generator NTPC in September to produce photovoltaic modules.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Shristi Achar
In September, the Indian government celebrated a decade of its Make in India programme, a flagship initiative to push for local manufacturing across sectors. And yet, the momentum isn’t slowing down. “We’re seeing big investments on the anvil which will create millions of jobs,” Piyush Goyal, the commerce minister, remarkedPress Information Bureau10 Years of Make in India during the event. One of the key beneficiaries of this scheme has been the electronics-manufacturing sector.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Shristi Achar
The Tata group is hiring migrant labourers to work at its manufacturing facilities in South India—similar to China's “dormitory labour regime” The cross-state-hiring model prevents workers from having local networks, avoiding attrition and unionisation Besides, hiring migrant workers helps manufacturers bridge the existing skill gap in their workforce State governments, however, don’t seem elated with hiring migrants, owing to its priorities of employing its domiciled youth Large patches of...
