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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Big break-ups, mergers & acquisitions, courtroom drama and stiff competition in the skies—the year ahead promises to be action-packed.

The overhang of 2023 will be hard to shake off coming into the new year. Particularly for startups, which saw the funding slowdown from 2022 becoming even more acute—Indian startups saw funding drop by more than half last year. On the flip side, in tech there is a resurgent global excitement around artificial intelligence and all the possible products and businesses that can be built on top of it. At the same time, public markets ended the year on a high with one of the best Decembers in a decade or two, to the point where many strong companies and …
As the low-cost carrier pushes through a compensation overhaul, the absence of a CEO is complicating a delicate moment.
The stablecoin neobank has raised more than $100 million this year; Saudi Arabia is looking at stock market reforms; and other updates from the week.
The two new chief executives at Air India and IndiGo come with contrasting reputations but face the same challenge—do their predecessors one better.