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Paytm market cap nears $2.5 billion as shares continue to tumble
When it was listed on the public bourses in 2021, Paytm was valued at nearly $20 billion.
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Happy Tuesday! Despite deal activity in late-stage startups showing signs of a revival, new unicorns aren’t being birthed. This and more in today’s edition of ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Shares of Paytm parent One 97 Communications fell 5% on Monday after its president and chief operating officer Bhavesh Gupta resigned. More on this in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Happy Monday! In the absence of central government’s self-regulatory mechanisms, states are framing laws for online real money gaming. This and more in today's ETtech Morning Dispatch.
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Akamai eyes edge computing units in three Indian cities
In a move to expand its global compute business, cloud computing giant Akamai Technologies is eyeing Indian cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad for potential edge computing facilities by the end of the year, according to their CEO Tom Leighton.
Eye on AI: AI boosts growth for cloud giants, US newspapers sue Microsoft, OpenAI
In the January-toMarch quarter, Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud grew at 17%, 31% and 28%, respectively, the companies reported. Analysts said this was a sign that AI is contributing to the growth and that overall cloud spending is also accelerating, Reuters reported. On the other hand, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in its earnings call emphasised the company’s longterm investment in AI, which led to its shares sinking by 19% on Wednesday, wiping out over $200 billion in market capitalisation.
AI has hit human-level performance on some parameters: Stanford report
Here's a summary of the noteworthy insights from the 'AI Index 2023' report by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
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