Podcast Episodes

As UPI transactions hit record-high, it's time to get your guard up

Episode 169

2023 turned out to be a landmark year for UPI (Unified Payments Interface) with the number of transactions crossing the 100-billion mark for the first time, according to the latest data released by t…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Will the subscription model help Rapido grow its new cab business?

Episode 168

Ever since it started, Rapido, the bike taxi company has consciously stayed away from venturing into the cab business. It was happy to stay in the bike taxi lane and beat Ola and Uber there even thou…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

The Flipkart-effect is not doing Myntra any good

Episode 167

In 2023, more than 70 million new users downloaded the online shopping app Myntra. India’s leading fashion e-retailer owned by Flipkart has been on quite the discount giving spree lately. And we are …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Best of 2023: Credit-card whizzes are beating banks at their own game

Episode 166

For the last week of December, we are taking you back to some of the most popular Daybreak episodes of 2023. We'll be back with regular programming from January 3, 2024.

For a people who were quite av…

Published on 2 years ago

Best of 2023: Why banks are now lining up to finance your study abroad

Episode 165

For the last week of December, we are taking you back to some of the most popular Daybreak episodes of 2023. We'll be back with regular programming from January 3, 2024.

For the longest time public se…

Published on 2 years ago

The big takeaways from Telecom Bill 2023

Episode 164

More than a year after the communication minister Ashwini Vaishnav had introduced a the draft version to the public, on Thursday, the Rajya Sabha passed the new Telecom Bill. Many hopes were pinned o…

Published on 2 years ago

All you need to know about the Sony-Zee merger

Episode 163

Two years ago, Sony’s India unit, Sony Pictures Networks, announced a merger with rival Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. It was supposed to be the country’s biggest entertainment deal.  The combine…

Published on 2 years ago

Forward-thinking alone may not guarantee the success of India's indigenous mobile OS

Episode 162

A few days ago Karthik Ayyar, the founder of an IIT Madras-incubated company that developed India’s first indigenous mobile operating system, BharOS, said his company is considering providing this te…

Published on 2 years ago

Can Google's loss against Epic impact the anti-trust case against it in India?

Episode 161

Google has been facing fines totalling billions of dollars for abusing its dominance not just in the Indian market but around the world. So the antitrust investigations launched against it in India l…

Published on 2 years ago

What KYC frauds have to do with fear

Episode 160

More than 70% of fraudulent banking transfers in India are KYC-linked scams. A senior official at the Financial Intelligence Unit, a national agency responsible for analysing data on suspect financia…

Published on 2 years ago