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PB Fintech promotes Sarbvir Singh as Executive Director and Group CEO

Sarbvir Singh started his career at Emerson Electric as manager - marketing for the China region. He has worked across Citi, Hercules Capital, HomeShop18, Network18, JP Morgan Asset Management and WaterBridge Ventures.

Previously, Sarbvir Singh served as the CEO of PolicyBazaar.

Find out the meaning behind Tata Motors EV’s new brand identity

The branding will also serve to differentiate ICE and EV versions of the same model.

The brand identity of TATA.ev, developed with Landor & Fitch, reflects the brand platform ‘Move with Meaning’ with sustainability at its core.

What Tata Motors’ EV business rebranding signals to the world

The other challenges are "a lot of myths and certain bottlenecks in terms of charging". But based on all cars that we have sold in the EVs space, 96 percent of the time people charge at home. Lack of awareness about within-city charging and need for more charging stations on highways, are consumer challenges. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

Tata Motors expects EVs to account for half of its passenger vehicle sales by 2030; aims to sell around 1 lakh EVs this year.

Shell promotes Mansi Madan Tripathy as country chair

Mansi Madan Tripathy started her career at Bharat Electronics as an engineer, and began her journey at Procter & Gamble where her last position was as director - global shave care.

In her new role, Mansi Madan Tripathy’s mandate will involve overseeing Shell Group of Companies in the country.

Tata Motors unveils Tata.ev, it’s new home for passenger electric vehicles

Tata Motors' commercial vehicles and Tata Daewoo range in Q4 FY24 were at 1,11,591 units, down 6 per cent over Q4 FY23. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

As the EV offering grows, spurred by surging consumer demand and a robust, thriving product lineup, customers expect a unique experience across all touchpoints, from the brand to the product and its ownership cycle, Tata Passenger Electric Mobility, a unit of Tata Motors, said in a statement.

Ikea to commence e-commerce operations in NCR by December 2024, says report

In February 2023, IKEA, has called for a creative pitch India. Storyboard18 was first to report about it. In April, the company hired Leo Burnett India as its creative partner for Indian market. (Representative Image: Jueun Song via Unsplash)

The Swedish company has invested Rs 10,500 crore in building five stores in India, in addition to announcing investments in two large shopping centres with integrated Ikea stores.

InMobi’s Glance launches in Japan, aims for 40 percent of Android market

Glance, founded in 2019, uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalised content to a mobile phone user’s lock screen. It comes pre-loaded on various Android phones, and offers curated content ‘at a glance’, without having to unlock your phone, and without having to download a separate app. Users can feed in their preferences, and turn on filters as relevant, and read the news, follow sports, play quick games or learn trivia, watch live-streamed events, even shop, right from their locked screens. (Image source: Forbes India)

The smart lock screen product offers users personalised content, without the need to unlock their phones or download an app. But to conquer Japan is a tall order.

Byju’s chief business officer Prathyusha Agarwal, two more senior execs quit

Prathyusha Agarwal, the Chief Business Officer of Byju’s, has resigned, four people aware of the matter told Moneycontrol.

The departure of the senior executives come at a time when Byju’s is trying to get its operations and finances in place.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says India must develop sovereign AI, moots national AI lab

IBM said in May that it plans to pause hiring for roles as it expects that as many as 7,800 jobs could be replaced by AI, with 30% of non-customer-facing roles replaced by AI and automation over the next 5 years. IBM is also using AI to perform 90% of mundane HR tasks such as promotion and assessment of people. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

The chairman and CEO of IBM further said India is poised to ride the AI wave successfully, after BPO and IT services.

JioCinema’s Taali touches 25 mn viewers in 2 weeks

With 25 million/2.5 crore viewers, Taali reaffirms JioCinema's position as a clear frontrunner in the digital entertainment landscape.

Boasting an IMDb rating of 8.6, with a prominent position on the Ormax charts as one of the leading originals in the launch weeks, Taali continues to be hailed by the audience as one of the most loved series, since its launch.