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The global cryptocurrency market is witnessing another major rally as institutional investors pour billions into digital assets, signaling a powerful shift in how cryptocurrencies are viewed within traditional finance.
Fresh off completing a landmark demerger that split Vedanta into five independently listed companies, the mining billionaire is preparing a multi-year, largely internally-funded investment programme that will test the limits of India's commodity demand cycle and the group's execution capabilities
On May 29, 2025, the merger of Jio Cinema and Disney+ Hotstar created the largest streaming platform in the history of Indian media. A year later, the numbers are in, and they are staggering: 547 million monthly active users—more than Netflix and Amazon Prime Video combined, globally. A content budget of ₹38,000 crore, larger than the entire production spend of the Indian film industry. An IPL digital‑rights deal worth ₹23,758 crore that was once ridiculed as economically irrational and is now being studied as a masterstroke of ecosystem strategy. And a market share that has left Netflix—which has struggled to cross 10 million subscribers in India—and Amazon—which has stopped reporting its India numbers entirely—scrambling to find a response.
ixigo's trains, flights and buses businesses generated ₹5,524 crore of gross transaction value in Q1 FY27. The company is now using that cash engine to fund a long-gestation push into budget and mid-market hotels.
WordPress.com parent Automattic has a new board that includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of defunct social app IRL, after chief executive Matt Mullenweg used his voting control to reverse a boardroom attempt to put him on leave.
Hindustan Unilever has moved the Delhi High Court against sustainable household brand Beco over a comparative advertising campaign, in a dispute that highlights growing legal friction between legacy FMCG giants and India's sustainability-focused challenger brands.
Indian e-commerce platforms recorded about ₹24,000 crore in gross sales in the first two days of the festive season, according to Redseer, with mobiles leading and Tier II and smaller cities powering a surge of 8–9 crore orders.
Earth-observation startup GalaxEye has acquired Bengaluru-based StarOps, a TeamIndus-origin spacecraft engineering firm, bringing qualified satellite bus platforms across three weight classes and a team of ISRO-linked engineers in-house.
Ather Energy is now receiving more than 50,000 pre-orders a month against a fraction of that in monthly retail sales, prompting an accelerated Rs 2,500 crore capacity expansion as dealer waiting periods stretch past two months.