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Coca Cola’s lime beverage is all set to attract health-conscious customers. The latest addition, called Limca Sportz, brands itself as a low sugar variant energy drink with Neeraj Chopra as the ambassador.  For the deep dive, Chess is all trendy in the country again nearly after a decade. The Chess Olympiad has found its new venue in India due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Tune in for more on the growing craze for chess in recent times.

Limca Gets A Sporty Revamp

The US is the world’s largest startup hub, and guess what? Indians make up the majority of its union founders. A study finds that 66 Indians founded billion dollar companies there. The other news is a treat for music lovers. Lollapalooza, the famous international music fest, is entering Asia next year, having chosen Mumbai for its debut.

Lollapalooza In The House

It is raining troubles for IPL as potential sponsors withdraw. Paytm stepped out as title sponsor and Mastercard is taking over. IPL sponsors Unacademy & Upstox also backed out. In other news, transformation of major social media platforms into short videos & profit- making spaces is shadowing the “social” part of it.

Is It the End Of An Era For Social Networks?

Indian online insurance company Policybazaar revealed that "illegal and unauthorised access" attempts were made to its IT systems. In other news, several new players have come forward to fill the gap in the shared mobility space that is dominated by Ola and Uber, including BluSmart with its electric cabs and crypto-based mobility startup Driife with its ‘no-surge pricing’ model.

Duopoly of Ola and Uber Will End Soon

In the States, JP Morgan and Slack have come up with initiatives to provide employment opportunities to the prisoners after their term ends. In other news, Football club FC Barcelona is broke and in a billion dollar debt. Still, it buys marquee players, like Robert Lewandowski. Tune in to know how the club manages to rope in finances.

Barca Keeps Its Business Running

In today’s episode, we discuss why most Indian brand logos end up using the same font, i.e., sans-serif. Also, we decode the similarities among all of them. In other news, we try to understand the business of buying and selling music rights.

Why Do Logos Of Indian Brands Look Alike?

TechCrunch’s stats reveal that 40% of youths prefer searching on TikTo/Instagram. Social media platforms witnessed a massive surge in popularity through video content creation and multi-purpose features like shopping, maps, etc. In other news, Indian Premier League owners have long been seeking global franchises. This time, as many as six teams of the upcoming South African T20 league were bought by IPL owners.

Social Media Cos Are Branching Out

The UAE based Lulu  inaugurated its new mall in Lucknow. And soon enough, it found itself in a series of religious strife in Uttar Pradesh’s capital. And for the deep dive, we cover Netflix’s efforts to get on the top of its streaming game. Among other developments, it is planning to create a series of a cinematic universe and characters to which the audience can fangirl over, a viewership strategy that its competitor Disney adopted long back.

Netflix Pulls A Disney

WWE is undoubtedly popular, but recent scandals are making things hard for it to fetch attention from broadcasters as well as viewers. And for the deep dive today, we take you through the race to lead and control finances for charity within Elon Musk’s inner circle.

Turmoil In Musk's Innercircle

After a long sought-after consideration, Vladimir Putin has finally passed laws to ban digital currencies for payments in the country. In other news, Amazon has decided to reduce sales of its own products as its sales growth decreased. We also go into detail on the backlash it received as a result of preferential treatment of its own items and copying designs from other sellers.