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Fintech firms struggle to come together for self-regulation

The idea of creating an SRO was mooted by the RBI governor in March. But more than a month since, the companies haven’t been able to proceed beyond initial discussions to band together and get the groundwork laid out.

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Amazon to expand office supplies business in Europe after pandemic boosts sales

The company is looking for high-growth, high-margin businesses to pursue as it plans to close all 68 of its physical bookstores, pop-up shops and "4-star" stores in the United States and United Kingdom.

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Mesa launches programme for startup leaders, raises $4 million funding in round led by Elevation Capital

The company has launched a startup leadership programme to be pursued in an offline campus in Bengaluru and will kickstart with a founding cohort of 60 hand-picked students.

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ETtech Exclusive | Snap’s India usage doubled in 2022: Evan Spiegel; Byju’s in funding talks with Apollo Global, Abu Dhabi Fund 10X AD

Snap Inc's cofounder & CEO spoke exclusively to ETtech about growth in the Indian market, leadership changes here, and focus on monetisation and regulations around Artificial Intelligence. This and more in today’s edition of the ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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Abu Dhabi Fund 10X AD, Apollo Global in talks to invest in Byju’s parent or Aakash

It’s not clear if 10X AD will lead an investor consortium of family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals in Abu Dhabi or go it alone and invest $150-200 million

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Snap expands chatbot My AI with ability to create images; says Snapchat+ has 3 million subscribers

The announcement came at Snap's annual Partner Summit. The company aims to use the technology to speed up its development of augmented reality (AR) features, or computerized images overlayed on top of photos and videos of the real world.

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ETtech Exclusive: Snap India doubled user base, engagement in 2022: CEO Evan Spiegel

Snap’s Spotlight also competes with YouTube's Shorts, while another global rival TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is banned in India.

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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...