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India’s refurbished smartphone market is showing signs of moving beyond its traditional budget positioning, with buyers increasingly opting for more expensive devices and newer-generation smartphones entering the resale ecosystem sooner. Cashify’s Great Indian Upgrade 2026 report says demand for refurbished devices on its platform increased 30.8%, while
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Blue Machines AI has launched Project Icebreaker, a co-innovation program aimed at helping Indian banking and financial services companies move artificial intelligence projects from pilots into production. The initiative will select five financial institutions in India, including banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), insurers and fintechs, according to the company. Under
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Blue Cloud Softech Solutions Limited has partnered with the Mahesh Babu Foundation to launch GMB Life, a preventive screening and wellness app aimed at expanding access to basic health screening and information. The app was launched on August 31 and is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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Masters’ Union, the Gurugram-based institution, has secured university status in Haryana. The Haryana Legislative Assembly has passed the Haryana Private Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2026, establishing Masters’ Union University in Gurugram. The move gives the institution a new operating framework as it looks beyond its existing management, technology, and engineering programs.
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Yuma Energy has raised $35 million from existing investor Magna International, with the company planning to use the capital to expand its battery-swapping infrastructure across India, broaden its customer base, and strengthen its technology platform. The fundraise comes after Yuma says it has completed more than 60 million battery swaps
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MediBuddy, a Bengaluru-based digital healthcare company, has appointed Shalabh Shrivastava as Head of Operations, bringing in an executive whose previous roles at Swiggy, Flipkart, and Reliance Retail were centered on managing large and complex operating networks. The timing is notable. MediBuddy says it reported its first EBITDA-positive quarter in Q4
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Genesys is expanding its Agentic Virtual Agent as enterprises look to move customer-facing AI beyond answering questions and toward completing work across business systems. Announced at Xperience 2026 in Las Vegas, the latest Genesys Cloud enhancements add improved AI reasoning, voice capabilities, development tools and deeper connections with enterprise applications
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Genesys has introduced a new set of Genesys Cloud capabilities aimed at helping enterprises coordinate increasingly autonomous customer experiences across AI agents, human employees, workflows and business systems. The company unveiled Genesys Cloud Navigator, Genesys Cloud Orchestrator, Contextual Intelligence and the AI Control Plane at its Xperience 2026 event in
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Gutenberg has launched an AI Visibility service to help brands track and improve how they appear in AI-generated answers, search results and conversational platforms as buyers increasingly use artificial intelligence to research products and companies. The service, announced September 1 by Gutenberg in New York and New Delhi, combines digital
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Juspay has introduced Breeze Universal, a global pilot under its Breeze commerce platform. The offering is designed to make product catalogs discoverable across AI platforms, including ChatGPT and Claude, while also allowing brands, banks, fintech companies, and marketplaces to build AI-powered shopping experiences on their own digital properties. The Shopping
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Wonderful, the AI OS for the enterprise, has raised $550 million in a Series C round at a $5 billion valuation. Insight Partners led the round, with Salesforce and existing investors Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards, and Bessemer Venture Partners participating. The funding comes as Wonderful positions its platform
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ProHance has appointed Ankur Agarwal as Vice President and General Manager, ProHanceCX Sales, as the company looks to expand its workforce management (WFM) business across enterprise customer experience (CX) and workforce engagement accounts. Agarwal will lead the growth of ProHanceCX, the company's WFM product line, and work with
