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Start-ups with heavy ad budgets are preferring freelancers, in-house set-ups or alternative creative shops for their marketing requirements. 

In this episode of BL Podcast, Vismaya Naganna, Founder of The Orange Heart, gives us an insight into this trend. 

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IT-major Infosys Ltd posted 12 per cent YoY rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 5,686 crore for March quarter 2021-22. It also said that its revenue grew 22.7 per cent.

In this podcast, Chief of Bureau, Bengaluru and Deputy Editor Venkatesha Babu talks about the five big takeaways from the results. Listen in.

Though Reliance Capital is debt-ridden at the group level, it has several subsidiaries that are profit-making and are well capitalised. How should the Committee of Creditors of Reliance Capital sell these subsidiaries?

BusinessLine’s Surabhi takes a look at the process even as the CoC is expected to meet today to finalise the Request for Resolution Plan. Listen in.

In this episode of BL Podcast, we speak with Misbah Quadri, Founder and CEO, Monofys Media, on starting a business during the Covid-19 pandemic and the various challenges faced by women entrepreneurs. 

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Consumer price-based inflation jumped to 6.95 per cent in March, mainly on account of costlier food items. Shishir Sinha gives us a snapshot of the inflation numbers.

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Several videos of e-scooters catching fire have raised concerns about the safety of electric vehicles. But, this worry could soon fade into oblivion as an emerging technology has the potential to stop the batteries of electric vehicles from catching fire. Solid-state batteries have only solid components unlike lithium-ion batteries have liquid electrolytes. M Ramesh explains in this podcast. Listen in.

The Indian rupee fell to a new low against the US dollar as the oil price surged after the Russia-Ukraine war broke. Can the rupee continue to make fresh lows? Sai Prabhakar and Gurumurthy discuss what can impact the rupee movement and how far it can weaken against the dollar.

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On April 4, It was announced that India’s largest housing finance company, HDFC Ltd, will merge with the largest private sector bank in the country, HDFC Bank, to create an entity with a combined balance sheet of ₹17.87-lakh crore and net worth of ₹3.3-lakh crore.

Hamsini, Chief Research Analyst, BusinessLine Research Bureau tells us more on what this means for investors and customers of the two entities now and down the line.

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YouTube has been the bedrock of the creator economy in India. A new report by Oxford Economics, an independent consulting firm, says YouTube India has contributed ₹6,800 crore to India’s GDP in 2020. YouTube is supporting over 68 crore full-time equivalent jobs in India, and as a testament to that, the number of channels earning at least ₹1 lakh in revenue has increased by 60 per cent, as of June 2021. Ajay Vidyasagar, Regional Director of YouTube Asia Pacific at Google, believes the creator economy in this country has the potential to emerge as a soft-power impacting economic growth, job creation, and even cultural influence. 

In this conversation, he talks about YouTube democratising storytelling, opening up innovation which is no longer the bastion of urban India, why YouTube is better at paying creators, and how it transformed to become the biggest edtech in the country.

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The global oil market has seen many changes in recent weeks. From Russia facing sanctions from the US and other countries over the Ukraine war, India getting discounted Russian oil, and the recent truce between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis group backed by Iran.

BusinessLine's Chief of Bureau -Kolkata, and Hyderbad and author of 'Unfilled Barrels- India's oil story' tell us more about the recent developments in the global oil market.

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