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The Ken

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Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and powerful.Hosted from The Ken’s newsroom by Snigdha Sharma and Rachel Varghese, Daybreak relies on years of original reporting and analysis by some of India’s most experienced and talented business journalists.

Episodes (868)

Daybreak Friday: UPI blinks, Google faces a $4.7B fine, LIC to shoulder India's...

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Jul 2, 202610:44pending

Karnataka let gig workers ask their apps a question. Swiggy, Zomato took the who...

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Jul 1, 202610:51pending

AI is eating your phone's memory and hiking up prices. No, festive sales can't s...

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Jun 30, 202615:02pending

A royal family’s billion-dollar bet on Indian startups—without a winner

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Jun 29, 20269:46pending

How many ‘bad’ schools make a good private equity investment?

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Jun 28, 202613:34pending

A new class of gig-workers in India are teaching robots to do the dishes

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Jun 25, 202628:29pending

Why Instagram wants to be on your TV now

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Jun 24, 202611:02pending

India's IT sector bet its future on AI access it doesn't actually control

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Jun 23, 202613:17pending

Google and Perplexity paid Jio and Airtel a fortune to reach Indian users. OpenA...

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Jun 22, 20269:00pending

Why Mamaearth's 2022 bet on a little-known drone startup is paying off in unexpe...

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Jun 21, 202618:11pending

India built UPI for the economy. Gamblers built an economy on UPI

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Jun 18, 202620:14pending

When the monsoon fails, India's AI dreams fail with it

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Jun 17, 202612:46pending

Zepto's DRHP underlines the inevitable cost at the heart of quick commerce

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Jun 17, 202617:11pending

Sovereign AI, American law

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Jun 15, 202614:42pending

Why Amazon seems so calm about being awfully late to quick commerce

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Jun 14, 202612:13pending

Can Adani do with apples what Mahindra did with grapes?

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Jun 12, 202613:57pending

India's mango paradox

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Jun 10, 202612:18pending

Analysts say gas prices are about to crash. India still can't afford to celebrat...

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Jun 10, 202613:52pending

LIC has lost its throne to SIPs. It’s still the smartest investor in the room

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Jun 9, 202610:08pending

NEET’s switch from pen-and-paper to computer: damned if you do, damned if you do...

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Jun 7, 202611:18pending

Why Big Tech is tokenmaxxed out

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Jun 4, 202611:32pending

Google is now Andhra Pradesh's first private electricity company. You'll be payi...

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Jun 4, 202624:39pending

The AI gold rush is over. The emperors are cashing out

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Jun 2, 202613:09pending

Why Swiggy wants to stay out of the Flipkart-Amazon spending war

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Jun 1, 202611:01pending

Inside foreign universities’ desperate attempts to woo indifferent Indians

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Jun 1, 202610:57pending

India spent $33 billion trying to fix BSNL. It forgot the most important part

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May 28, 202610:11pending

Why SIPs are not always right

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May 27, 202610:28pending

Microsoft called Copilot "entertainment only." Then killed it on Xbox

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May 26, 202619:09pending

India's "family" problem

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May 25, 202613:54pending

District isn’t even 2% of Eternal’s business. But it’s enough to rattle Bookmysh...

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May 24, 202611:37pending

Meta fires 8,000 on a record quarter. Unacademy sells for 90% less than its peak

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May 21, 202611:11pending

Adani’s big plan to own Indian aviation: invest in everything but an airline

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May 21, 202610:49pending

Meta x Oakley and an ad starring Virat Kohli say “Athletic Intelligence is here”...

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May 20, 202613:34pending

How one merger left FIFA with no game to play in India

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May 18, 202611:53pending

What does Zoho offer as India’s new official email provider: security or Indiann...

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May 17, 202611:39pending

Bollywood invented the studio model, then abandoned it. Reliance brought it back...

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May 14, 202610:24pending

AI did what it promised. And that's a problem for Gen Z

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May 13, 202622:06pending

The jet fuel crisis is only the most convenient explanation for what’s happening...

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May 12, 20269:45pending

Meta to get the world’s longest internet cable to India. It’s 100% exposed

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May 11, 202626:52pending

Maruti, Tata are caught between conflict, EV delays, and emission rules. They fo...

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May 10, 202611:58pending

This startup ranked AI models. They all landed in the danger zone

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May 7, 202612:18pending

India's newest think tank has Adani's money and the government's ear

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May 6, 202610:33pending

Your grocery bill is soon going to get more expensive. But the spike might not b...

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May 5, 202610:22pending

Prediction markets are a $150 billion industry. And they had money on Bengal and...

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May 4, 202612:05pending

Your retirement may not survive its first bad year. This number could help

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May 4, 20269:57pending

How one FMCG giant's complaint changed how IPL advertising works

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Apr 30, 202617:58pending

India's instant home help startups have a product people love and a business mod...

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Apr 29, 202610:39pending

Diet Coke disappeared from shelves. For many factory workers across India, so di...

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Apr 28, 20269:53pending

Rihanna said she'd never be a sellout. Then Reliance bought Sephora India

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Apr 27, 202613:40pending

IBM, Infosys, and Wipro entered Kochi. Only one emerged unscathed

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Apr 26, 202612:01pending
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