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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Topic: Amazon

Walmart’s usual victims in America become its new friends in India

Small stores or kiranas will be Walmart’s unlikely allies in its latest attempt to take on Amazon & Reliance in India.

Sundar Pichai meets US General today amid military jitters over Google’s AI push in China

Google invited General Joseph Dunford for talks after he said the firm's AI work in China 'indirectly benefits the Chinese military'.

Apple’s reinvention as a services company starts for real today

Tim Cook is expected to unveil streaming video & news subscriptions as Apple pushes to transform itself into a leading digital services provider.

Google, Amazon, Apple can all be fixed, but not Facebook

When Facebook appropriates someone else’s content, it decides to steal its functionality. So it’s better to break it up, says antitrust expert Hal Singer.

As Apple launches new services, it has one big problem to grapple with: internal conflict

There are inherent ethical and business conflicts when companies such as Apple act as both a 'neutral' distributor and a provider of their own services.

Govt proposes conditions for data storage abroad in draft e-commerce policy

The draft addresses six broad issues -- data, infrastructure development, e-commerce marketplaces, regulatory issues, stimulating domestic digital economy and export promotion.

Alibaba-backed Paytm wants to cash in on Amazon’s India distress

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma says their focus is on growing the market by converting offline partners to online retail.

The Bezos blockbuster: Wild days of lurid selfies, blackmail, Amazon drama

Jeff Bezos' life has taken a very dramatic turn with threats by a tabloid to publish graphic images of his, and conspiracy theories of a connection to the killing of a Saudi dissident journalist.

Even Bezos couldn’t stop a selfie leak

Bezos' selfie has triggered an alarm for billionaires everywhere, for whom personal protection is no longer just bodyguards and top-notch alarm systems.

In poll-bound India, Modi’s politics is hurting Bezos, helping Ambani

Modi’s pitch to give local traders space in e-retail is curbing US retail giants such as Amazon who have committed billions of dollars.

On Camera

Manipur has seen too much pain to be seduced by promises

Nehru learned the truth the hard way when 3,000 Nagas walked out of his 1953 rally. The people of the Northeast aren’t easily seduced by baubles.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.