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Step aside Tesla, BYD: Japanese carmakers deepen their hold on India’s auto market with hybrids
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Step aside Tesla, BYD: Japanese carmakers deepen their hold on India’s auto market with hybrids

Hello, this is Priyanka Salve, writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to the latest edition of “Inside India“ — your one-stop destination for stories and developments from the world’s fastest growing large economy. Indian consumers’ desire to shift away from gasoline-based cars should have been Tesla and BYD’s moment to shine in the world’s third-largest auto market. […]

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Microsoft’s LinkedIn names longtime exec Dan Shapero its new CEO
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Microsoft’s LinkedIn names longtime exec Dan Shapero its new CEO

Daniel Shapero, CEO of LinkedIn and Ryan Roslansky, EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office. Courtesy: LinkedIn Microsoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and last year took on additional responsibility in Microsoft’s Office productivity group. The change is […]

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Google unveils chips for AI training and inference in latest shot at Nvidia
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Google unveils chips for AI training and inference in latest shot at Nvidia

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a meeting with France’s President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those […]

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CNBC Daily Open: Trump looks to mitigate tariff, geopolitical blowback
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CNBC Daily Open: Trump looks to mitigate tariff, geopolitical blowback

US President Donald Trump speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Daniel Heuer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hello, this is Dylan Butts writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open. U.S. President Donald Trump has extended the […]

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Apple’s elevation of silicon head Johny Srouji signals sprint to build in-house chips for all devices
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Apple’s elevation of silicon head Johny Srouji signals sprint to build in-house chips for all devices

In naming hardware boss John Ternus as its new CEO on Monday, Apple also announced another key promotion that may be almost as significant in gauging the company’s direction. Taking over for Ternus as head of hardware will be Johny Srouji, who leads the team that makes Apple’s in-house chips. Apple created a new title […]

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Trump recounts Tim Cook call to ‘kiss my ass,’ in stark look at White House dealmaking
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Trump recounts Tim Cook call to ‘kiss my ass,’ in stark look at White House dealmaking

Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the White House, Washington, March 6, 2019. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump praised Tim Cook in a lengthy Truth Social post on Tuesday, calling the outgoing Apple CEO an “incredible guy” and boasting about how Cook appealed to him when […]

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Analysis: Warsh emerges from a difficult hearing with his Fed ‘regime-change’ plan intact
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Analysis: Warsh emerges from a difficult hearing with his Fed ‘regime-change’ plan intact

Kevin Warsh faced searching questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday. Democrats and even at times Republicans challenged his complicated finances, his relationship to President Donald Trump and what often seems like a wide-eyed endorsement of the promise of artificial intelligence. But one core issue for Warsh went all but unquestioned: his plan for what […]

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Microsoft cuts Game Pass subscription prices after new Xbox CEO promises to ‘recommit’ to gamers
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Microsoft cuts Game Pass subscription prices after new Xbox CEO promises to ‘recommit’ to gamers

A Microsoft Xbox sign appears at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 21, 2025. Ying Tang | Nurphoto | Getty Images Microsoft said Tuesday that it will lower the cost of subscriptions that include access to hundreds of video games, after the company’s new gaming leader promised to “recommit to our core Xbox […]

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Tim Cook turned Apple into a  trillion juggernaut by not trying to be Steve Jobs
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Tim Cook turned Apple into a $4 trillion juggernaut by not trying to be Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs (R), Apple Inc. CEO, and Tim Cook, Apple Inc. Coo, speak at a press conference at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. Kimberly White | Corbis Historical | Getty Images In his time running Apple, Tim Cook has been more like the “president of a country, not a company,” according to Deepwater Asset Management’s […]

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Apple incoming CEO John Ternus faces a defining challenge: Fixing the company’s AI strategy
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Apple incoming CEO John Ternus faces a defining challenge: Fixing the company’s AI strategy

John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc., during an Apple event in New York, US, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Adam Gray | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple has maintained its dominance in consumer devices and built up a $4 trillion market cap despite largely sitting on the sidelines of the […]

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