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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
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Editor's note: Today’s issue is dedicated to the media business. A Pulitzer for resilience All you can see in the photo is a deserted street through a barbed wire set up as a blockade. The shops are closed and there is no traffic. A solitary man can be seen leaning against what looks like an electric pole. The street beyond the barbed wire is like a limb that is cut from the body cold. It is the morning of 6 August 2019, one day after the Narendra Modi-led government revoked Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir special status. The photo, shot by Dar Yasin of the Associated Press, was part of a series of photographs by three AP photographers that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, announced earlier this week. Channi Anand (based in Jammu), Mukhtar Khan and Yasin (both based in Kashmir), won the most coveted award in journalism for “striking images of life” in what the Pulitzer citation called “the contested territory of Kashmir” after the abrogation of Article 370, …
Editor's note: Today’s issue is dedicated to the media business. A Pulitzer for resilience All you can see in the photo is a deserted street through a barbed wire set up as a blockade. The shops are closed and there is no traffic. A solitary man can be seen leaning against what looks like an electric pole. The street beyond the barbed wire is like a limb that is cut from the body cold. It is the morning of 6 August 2019, one day after the Narendra Modi-led government revoked Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir special status. The photo, shot by Dar Yasin of the Associated Press, was part of a series of photographs by three AP photographers that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, announced earlier this week. Channi Anand (based in Jammu), Mukhtar Khan and Yasin (both based in Kashmir), won the most coveted award in journalism for “striking images of life” in what the Pulitzer citation called “the contested territory of Kashmir” after the abrogation of Article 370, …
First came the loss of advertising and distribution power. Now AI has slashed the cost of content—dealing a body blow.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The digital media company appears to have quietly changed its strategy, after the failure of its short-video platform Josh and amid a rush to get to a public listing.
First came the loss of advertising and distribution power. Now AI has slashed the cost of content—dealing a body blow.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The digital media company appears to have quietly changed its strategy, after the failure of its short-video platform Josh and amid a rush to get to a public listing.
