Prathik Desai is a Business Reporter and Sub-editor for Deccan Herald, focusing on local news in India, specifically in Karnataka and Bengaluru. He covers a wide range of topics in the business sector, including technology, renewable energy, taxation, and corporate developments. Prathik is dedicated to providing accurate and insightful reporting on the economic landscape of the region.
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By: Prathik Desai, Abdul Haleem, Vinita Bhatia
Having fallen out of favour with investors, shareholders and the Reserve Bank of India in recent months, the cause of Paytm's current woes is the same that led to its initial quick rise—Vijay Shekhar Sharma. By giving up the chairman's job at Paytm Payments Bank, he is attempting a Bond-like escape from the wrath of the banking regulator. Will he succeed?
By: Prathik Desai
Messaging platform Gupshup on Tuesday launched Conversation Cloud, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool suite to improve business-to-consumer interactions. The new set of SaaS tools uses AI integration across voice and text communication to improve engagement between businesses and customers.
By: Prathik Desai
During the pandemic, Pharmeasy was the go-to destination for Mumbai's Priti Khakkar for all things medical. She would use it to order medicines for her family, rapid RTPCR COVID-testing kits for her parents in another part of town and even book diagnostics tests.
By: Prathik Desai
While this could stem from founders wanting to be on the favourable side of regulations, experts opine that the interest in corporate governance can be driven only by the intent to do what is right and not fear of legislation.
By: Prathik Desai
PeepalCo, the parent firm of cryptocurrency unicorn CoinSwitch, on Tuesday forayed into stockbroking services, through a new entity named ‘Lemonn’, in
By: Prathik Desai
The company CEO expects the demand for embedded edge computing devices to rise amid the increasing relevance of AI and ML and the need for low-latency solutions.
By: Prathik Desai
While some have expanded on the common underlying blockchain technology to offer Web 3.0 or similar allied services, few others have ventured into the regulated stockbroking space.
By: Prathik Desai
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For almost two years, Latha (name changed) has been providing salon-related services via home services aggregator Urban Company, earlier known as UrbanClap, in
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