Yuvraj Malik

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.

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.

2 months ago | moniify.com | Sumit Kumar |Ronojoy Mazumdar |Yuvraj Malik |Tim Hume

Your 50-year-old uncle’s been holding off on big purchases, waiting to see what gets cheaper after India’s budget is presented by the finance minister on Saturday. No pressure, Nirmala Sitharaman — there’s only about 1.5 billion Indian citizens to please. And you can count on a lot of them being glued to their screens come budget day, closely tracking any movement on everything from taxes to levies on goods. Here’s what MONIIFY will be looking out for.

2 months ago | moniify.com | Ronojoy Mazumdar |Yuvraj Malik |Azar Zaidi

Swiggy is floundering after one of India’s biggest internet IPOs in years. Its shares tumbled nearly 9% during Monday’s DeepSeek-triggered global equity sell-off, briefly dipping below its November IPO price of 390 rupees on Tuesday. Zomato wasn’t spared either, sliding 4.4% at the start of the week, and only partially making up losses on Tuesday. And it is all down to valuations.

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?