Reliance Retail Ventures has acquired the AI Styling Engine and commerce app of Furrl, a Bengaluru-based fashion discovery platform founded by Esha Tiwary, folding the four-year-old startup's personalisation technology into its broader AI push.
The fifth edition of the NRI Achievers Awards concluded at The St. Regis Singapore on July 31, recognizing diaspora leaders across business, technology, healthcare and research from more than a dozen countries, including four Singapore-based honorees.
The American India Foundation, the New York-based organization founded in 2001 following the Gujarat earthquake, has mobilized its U.S. donor network in response to catastrophic monsoon flooding in Assam that has affected hundreds of thousands of people and left dozens dead across the state.
Tarun Lal, the former KFC U.S. president who took over as Dave & Buster's chief executive last year, has retired effective August 3 to spend more time with his family in India, with CFO Darin Harper named as his successor.
Parul Butala has been promoted to president of AMERCO Real Estate Co., the property arm of U-Haul Holding Co., capping a three-decade rise from staff architect to head of a division that manages thousands of self-storage and moving facilities across North America.
Sanjay Ghemawat, the Indian-American engineer behind Google File System, MapReduce, Bigtable and Spanner, has left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le — a new venture backed by Alphabet that aims to automate scientific and engineering research.
University of Nevada, Reno assistant professor Parikshit Maini has won a five-year, $618,201 National Science Foundation CAREER Award — the agency's most prestigious honor for early-career faculty — to build cooperative drone-and-ground-robot systems that could reshape precision agriculture from Nevada's arid fields to Mars.
Urban Company shares surged 13-17% after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to Overweight and InstaHelp crossed 100,000 daily orders, despite a continued net loss.
Malaysian private equity firm Creador is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire a 10% stake in Leeford Healthcare, valuing the pharmaceutical company at around ₹8,500 crore.
India's LNG imports rose 15.4% YoY to 7.08 million tonnes in May-July 2026, as US, Oman and Nigerian cargoes replaced disrupted Qatari and UAE supply.