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Google & Amazon pledge $25 billion in investments after White House meeting with Modi 

While Google announced a fintech company in Gujarat & reiterated his promise of investing through ‘India Digitisation Fund', Amazon has announced additional investment of $15 billion.   

Cash to online wallet: Amazon to collect expiring Rs 2,000 notes from customers

Amazon said its customers can hand over up to Rs 50,000 worth to delivery agents for orders meant for payment via cash. The amount will then be credited to their Amazon Pay wallets.

Amazon’s India, South Asia cloud division head Puneet Chandok resigns

Vaishali Kasture will replace Chandok as interim head of the cloud unit from 31 August.

Some Amazon staff to protest its climate policy, layoffs in Seattle

More than 1,900 employees had pledged to protest globally, according to the organizers, an activist group known as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ).

Amazon to Walmart, investors in India boost Modi ahead of 2024 LS polls

Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing division on Thursday became the latest company to announce an investment in the world's most populous country.

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $13 billion in India by 2030

Investment by the cloud computing division of Amazon Inc will be used to build cloud infrastructure in India and it will support over 100,000 full- time jobs annually.

Amazon didn’t grant CEO Andy Jassy any new stock in 2022, says company

At the same time, Amazon awarded more than $40 million each to the recently elevated CEOs of its e-commerce and cloud businesses.

On Camera

How Gen-Z is changing the violent extremist landscape online

The evolving extremist threat now hinges on young people online, demanding new strategies beyond traditional counter-terror models.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.