Mid-tier creators are leaving Instagram and YouTube for regional apps like Moj, ShareChat, Rooter, Stan, and Eloelo to earn through virtual gifting. These platforms offer opportunities for creators to engage with audiences and monetize their content effectively.
Third-party logistics firms like Delhivery and Xpressbees are venturing into the quick-commerce sector to support platforms such as Swiggy Instamart, Blinkit, and Zepto as demand surges. Sensing opportunity in the q-commerce space, Delhivery has started to work with Swiggy Instamarts larger warehouses which supply to small dark stores, or fulfilment centers. Meanwhile, Xpressbees is talking to multiple players for the same.
Neobanking startup Jupiter, backed by Tiger Global and Peak XV Partners, secures a prepaid payments instrument licence from the RBI to offer digital wallets for UPI payments, fund transfers, and bill payments.
Left unanswered on Monday: which company is paying the other as part of a tight collaboration that has potentially lasting monetary benefits for both. But, according to people briefed on the matter, the partnership isnt expected to generate meaningful revenue for either party — at least at the outset.
Apple on Wednesday reclaimed its berth as the world s biggest company when measured by stock price, taking back the top position from Microsoft. Apple, which had taken its time to draw up its AI strategy, lost the top spot in January as investors rewarded Microsoft s unabashed rollout of new generative AI products under its Copilot brand.