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Electric vehicle maker Ather Energy's chief financial officer (CFO) Deepak Jain is set to exit the firm, with senior finance controller Sohil Parekh set to take over the position.The change was announced by chief executive Tarun Mehta in an internal communication to employees. Jain worked at Ather for over four years, where joined after a stint at background checking software firm First Advantage. He has previously worked in finance roles with the likes of Apple and Procter & Gamble, according to his LinkedIn…

The downside of artificial intelligence has dominated media coverage, reaching for extreme scenarios, including the extinction of the human race. No one knows if the threats presented by AI are realistic, exaggerated, or something in between. Meanwhile, however, the positive side of AI waits to be explored.Recently I’ve been exploring four roles that AI can play to improve anyone’s well-being.Personal research assistant: The first role is an extension of a search engine. With AI-assisted search engines at Google and Bing,…

Startups must brace for further down rounds in 2024 as valuations could fall by nearly a third compared with 20-25% now amid a lingering funding winter and an increase in the number of companies looking to raise cash, says Deepak Padaki, president of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy’s investment firm, Catamaran Ventures. The family office has backed around 27 private firms including Acko, Udaan, PaperBoat and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. In an interview with ET’s Beena Parmar, Padaki, who joined the company last August, also…

In a major push for the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), ecommerce giant Amazon on Friday committed to joining the platform with its logistics and SmartCommerce offerings. This and more in today’s edition of ETtech Top 5.Also in this letter:■ Cricketer Deepak Chahar, wife Jaya float sports tech venture ■ Glance surpasses 30 million users in Indonesia, Roposo launch soon■ IMF lays out crypto action plan, bats against legal tender statusAmazon to board ONDC with logistics, SmartCommerce offerings…

Segmentations is not just another string in your bow, but one you would take out frequently to understand your customersPhoto by Kaitlyn Chow on UnsplashBig data analytics has given organisations the power to deliver a hyper-personalised service to customers based on how they think, feel, and act. With the emergence of the promise of one-to-one targeting, segmentations can seem crude and outmoded. However, when used correctly, segmentations still represent a potential source of enormous competitive advantage as a means of…

Zipline has hired departing Verily CFO and Tesla veteran Deepak Ahuja as its first chief business and financial officer, an appointment that comes as the drone delivery and logistics startup accelerates its global expansion in Africa, the United States and other regions. Ahuja, who is leaving his post at Alphabet’s unit Verily Life Sciences, will start in the new role September 30. (Verily, which said Friday it raised $1 billion, also announced Ahuja was leaving the company.) Ahuja will oversee…

Opinion3 aspects that make Data Scientists think about moving on to greener pasturesPhoto by Jan Tinneberg on UnsplashIt’s no secret that attrition in general, and specially in ‘Data Science and Analytics’, is shooting through the roof recently. It has even led to the emergence of a new phrase ‘The Great Resignation’ — a phrase that could have hardly escaped you if you had been following any data science / analytics related conversations in the last couple of years.Over the last decade, ‘Data Science and Analytics’ has…