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Meta stuns Street with lower costs, big buyback, upbeat sales

The parent of Instagram and Facebook, which has fallen on hard times amid a broad post-pandemic slump in digital ads, is focused on improving its content recommendations powered by artificial intelligence and its ad targeting systems to keep users clicking.

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ETtech Opinion | Budget will help catalyse efforts to promote digitally inclusive India: Kalyan Krishnamurthy

The budget outlines the importance of startups. Allowing carry-forward of losses for longer will strengthen their books and enable focus on building the larger ecosystem.

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US, India semiconductor groups forge initiative to boost chip ecosystem

The task force will develop a "readiness assessment" regarding the semiconductor ecosystem in India and gather industry, government, and academic stakeholders to identify near-term industry opportunities.

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Snap swings to quarterly net loss, expects lower Q1 rev; shares fall

The owner of photo messaging app Snapchat is the first of the major digital advertising platforms to report fourth-quarter results, which provides an early clue for platforms like Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc and Alphabet's Google when they report results later this week.

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Exclusive: Big payday for PhonePe founders; key takeaways for tech, startups from Eco Survey 2023

To kick start the day, we have a packed edition of the ETtech Morning Dispatch. Bunch of stories on what the Economic Survey 2023 recommended for startups and tech sector and another big scoop on the PhonePe-Flipkart separation and its ongoing fundraise.

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SaaS pips fintech as largest unicorn creator in 2022: Orios

However, many of the SaaS unicorns reached the coveted $1-billion valuation on the back of inflated price-to-valuation ratios, Orios managing partner Rehan Yar Khan told ET.

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Elon Musk seeks to end lawsuit over 'inadvertent' late disclosure of Twitter stake

In the federal court case in Manhattan, investors accused Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, of waiting 11 days past a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission deadline the previous March to disclose he had bought 5% of its stock.

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Yellow.ai deploys 30% of global generative AI bots domestically

While markets like the US are mostly using GenAI for customer support in a bid to cut costs, India Inc. is using them as an opportunity to g...