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Amazon to bring BBC shows to India as battle with Ambani heats up

From Thursday, Amazon's India-based Prime Video members will be able to watch popular British mainstays including The Great British Bakeoff and Strictly Come Dancing on BBC Player

Indian truckmakers eye electric as one of the ways to tackle pollution

15 companies including Amazon.com Inc., Nestle SA and India's Aditya Birla Group joined forces to advance the electrification of the nation's truck fleet

How Tata's EV battery plant will help Britain in saving its car industry

It has also faced an existential challenge as rival governments pledge vast amounts of public funds to the development of electric vehicles

Tata's $5.2 bn EV battery project in Britain shouldn't be underestimated

The significance of the £4 billion ($5.2 billion) project shouldn't be underestimated, though it is more of a lifeline for domestic carmakers rather than their crowning glory

$46 bn rally shows optimism is returning for India's IT companies

The NSE Nifty IT Index has climbed 18% from an April low, adding about $46 billion in market value. The 10-member gauge has turned the rally up a notch in July

Our civilisation was built for a climate that's vanishing quickly

You can learn a lot about the climates we live in by the buildings we construct

Sequoia Capital shakes up venture capital team, sheds two crypto investors

Longtime partner Michael Moritz is leaving the venture firm to focus on Sequoia Heritage, a wealth management business he helped start, Sequoia said Wednesday

Stanford University prez quits after problems discovered in his research

Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist who joined Stanford as president in 2016 from Rockefeller University in New York, has been a leader in the field of brain and spinal cord research

Blackstone on brink of $1 trn milestone in first for private equity

Private equity firms have risen to power major tracts of the US economy

Apple tests 'Apple GPT,' develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI

The company was caught flat-footed in the past year with the introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI

Goldman profit tumbles on real estate hits, dealmaking slump: Report

The firm had been actively tamping down expectations heading into the report, prompting analysts to slash their estimates for quarterly profit by almost half since mid-June

Merger regulations get tougher in crackdown by antitrust enforcers

The changes come on the heels of several bruising defeats for the government in blocking vertical mergers

Morgan Stanley moves 200 technologists out of mainland: China data law

The employees, accounting for more than a third of Morgan Stanley's technologists on the mainland, are primarily moving to Hong Kong and Singapore, one of the people said

Microsoft offers free security feature after alleged China cyber hack

Microsoft said its decision was "in response to increasing frequency and evolution of nation-state cyberthreats

Surge in harmful content on Twitter a barrier to advertiser return

"Musk is not keeping his promises to advertisers, and their ads are appearing next to really harmful content," said Callum Hood, director of research at the Center for Countering Digital Hate

Temasek Holdings seeks strategic partners to deploy $5 bn a year in India

The state investor is planning to hire another four to five investment professionals, bringing its India team to more than 20 people, Temasek India head Ravi Lambah said

G20 mediators plan a dozen meetings to find common ground on war language

New Delhi is trying to find consensus ranging from the debt crisis and the African Union's membership to G-20 and reform of multilateral development banks

World Bank chief Ajay Banga eyes corporate philanthropy to raise funds

A panel appointed by Indian presidency of G-20 has estimated that $3 trillion is needed every year through 2030 for issues including debt relief to low-income countries and to fight climate change

Threads shows Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is just another faddist

There's a good chance both Threads and ChatGPT will become irrelevant over time, thanks to the erratic approach of its CEOs

Rishi Sunak's popularity sinks to lowest since UK premier took power

Some 65% of Britons now have an unfavorable view of the prime minister compared with 25% who see him in a positive light, according to a YouGov poll of 2,151 British adults published Wednesday