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12/5/2023
2 : 34
Apple model for Zara, H&M
Also in today's edition: Young Chinese hit country roads; Home building boom in small cities; Swipe sweeps streaming; Aping Berkshire Hathaway
12/4/2023
2 : 44
Newbie IIM-M places with flying colours
Also in today's edition: Shadow banking doyen advises pivot; Of fossils and mammoths; Cash is king at local weddings; Gemini delayed
12/2/2023
4 : 34
ChatGPT, one year on
2024 may rein in the chatbot that opened the floodgates of artificial intelligence
12/1/2023
10 : 34
Goodbye, and thank you!
It is with great disappointment that I have to inform you that this is the last edition of The Playbook that I am writing. My youngest cat who is four months old has been diagnosed with a serious
12/1/2023
2 : 34
Bad things come in threes
Also in today's edition: Henry The K is dead; Iger's U-turn; HCL's wrapper ambitions; Ma's memo
11/29/2023
2 : 34
School’s over for Huawei
Also in today's edition: Irdai wants answers; Climate summit 🫱🏾🫲🏽 oil deals; Tesla vs. Sweden; The $86 billion elephant in OpenAI's room
11/28/2023
2 : 34
A new challenger takes charge
Also in today's edition: Hardik Pandya's homecoming; Indian medicine for pharma manufacturers; Gaming setback for ByteDance; Disney's unfulfilled Wish
11/27/2023
2 : 34
Moonshot hits pay dirt
Also in today's edition: What recession?; Diamonds are not forever; Same wars, another day; Statutory warning: do not post fakes
11/25/2023
4 : 34
Cop28: Follow the money
The Israel-Hamas War could play spoilsport in making this year's climate summit more decisive.
11/24/2023
10 : 34
Is this the end of Formula One’s ‘Drive to Survive’ boost?
Max Verstappen and Red Bull's dominance over the last two seasons is threatening to derail the sport's stupendous growth curve in the last five years
11/24/2023
2 : 34
Indonesia’s Punjabi fix
Also in today's edition: Full-service IndiGo?; No country for used car cos; Sahara investors protest; Why Indians don't care for non-iPhone devices
11/23/2023
2 : 34
Hell’s kitchen
Also in today's edition: Big twists come in small chip packages; The OpenAI saga is over (we hope); GST mayhem; Binance gets humbled
11/22/2023
2 : 34
Censor and sensibility
Also in today's edition: Imports, deep fried; Billion dollar borrowers; Hamas's Thanksgiving Turkey;
11/21/2023
2 : 34
Nadella’s checkmate
Also in today's edition: RBI's dance with debt; Consumers bling the house down; Singhania divorce battle heats up; China's math isn't mathing
11/20/2023
2 : 34
2003. 2023. Same guy
Also in today's edition: Is this the end of Miss Universe?; OpenAI goes postal; Breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war; End of the Chanos era
11/18/2023
4 : 34
Biden’s folly, Xi’s boon
The war in Gaza opens up new opportunities for China in the Middle East
11/17/2023
10 : 34
Has Team India saved ODI cricket?
The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 is breaking viewership, attendance, and revenue records.
11/17/2023
2 : 52
A takeover as sticky as honey
Also in today's edition: Subrata Roy's controversial legacy; Xi-Biden make amends; Microsoft stacks the deck; Meta goes the chequered mile for ad $$$
11/14/2023
16 : 54
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11/11/2023
4 : 34
A country for old men
Why are US politicians so old? And why do they want to stay in office?