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.
694 episodes transcribedOn June 3, about 200 employees of the American management consulting firm Bain and Company’s India division received a rather ominous calenda...
Nothing about Nykaa is strictly its own anymore. Back when it went public, it had no real rivals in the beauty space. But since then, things...
More than a decade has passed since Starbucks came to India. But the world’d biggest coffee chain has been struggling to achieve profitabilit...
At the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, almost a week ago, Apple made a very important announcement. It launched what it calls 'Appl...
The newest battle ground between Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jim is financial services. Airtel already has two thriving ventures. The first is...
Bluestone and Caratlane set out with the same dream. They both wanted to sell everyday fine jewellery online. This was a pretty alien concept...
AI algorithms for cancer screening are being developed around the world. Most medical professionals will agree that there is tremendous poten...
Last week, Foxtale, an Indian D2C skincare company secured an $18 million funding in its series B round. Meanwhile, news also broke that the...
There is something really concerning happening to India’s 200-million strong workforce. Nearly half of them, who are above the age of 45, hav...
Zomato, the food delivery giant is all set to infuse more than $35 million into Blinkit. But not too long ago, Blinkit, the grocery delivery...
When 29-year-old Deepa delivered a healthy baby boy six months ago, she thought her health insurance would cover her hospital expenses. But u...
When e-commerce giant Flipkart acquired online travel aggregator (OTA) Cleartrip back in 2021, the hope was that it would be able to turn thi...
Last year, Indians collectively drank nearly 600 million litres of energy drinks. This was almost 30X more than 2018. Among all the go to dr...
Desi dating apps are vying for parental approval. And their strategy seems to be working. A couple months ago, Agrima Srivastava, a 29-year-o...
It has been a tough couple of years for India’s Chartered accountants. This was and to some extent still is one of the most sought after jobs...
According to a survey by S&P, more than 75% of Indian adults do not understand basic financial concepts. The gap is 5% more when it comes...
Since 2021, Toyota and Maruti have been engaged in somewhat of a marriage of convenience. The terms were pretty simple. Toyota would share it...
Credit card companies, in their rush to sell more and more cards use a whole gamut of attractive offers—the most popular one being free acces...
In today’s special Friday episode, The Ken’s Praveen Gopal Krishnan (aka PGK) joins hosts Snigdha and Rahel to talk about India’s complicated...
At the time of demonetisation, the country was desperately seeking an alternative to cash. And a payments regulator called NPCI or the Nation...
