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ZestMoney is expected to lay off almost 100 employees of its 450-member team, after the buy-now-pay-later platform’s acquisition talks with digital payments major PhonePe fell through, people in the know said.ZestMoney’s founders and leadership informed employees about the layoff at a town hall meeting on April 6, they said. The impact is expected to be felt across departments.Several of the startup’s employees have already started reaching out to other employers on job platform Linkedin for placement. ETtech“The town…

“I never tell people where exactly I am and I won’t tell you which city I live in either,” says the sceptical, sardonic narrator of Your Driver Is Waiting, Priya Guns’s debut about social precarity and solidarity. “In our current times, a city is a place, is a space, is the same everywhere minus the design of buildings, the demographics, and the weather.” Thus Damani Krishanthan, a ride-share driver, establishes two things early on: that she’s in control at the wheel – choosing what to reveal to the reader and what to…

Washington, March 20, 2023 -Manicured fingers meticulously place cash in transparent envelopes marked "food," "gas" and other categories, demonstrating in a TikTok video a retro technique for controlling what you spend that is newly popular with some money-conscious Americans.Returning to cash to control spending may be old fashioned, but in an era of high inflation, a growing number of consumers find that it works.Judia Griner, 25, started "cash stuffing" two years ago when she was a student at Old Dominion University in…

A British Indian is among the five leading industry experts who will be working to accelerate development and deployment of emerging technologies in key UK growth sectors. An AI council member, Priya Lakhani OBE, has been appointed to support work to harness new digital technology, such as artificial intelligence, in five high potential sectors to create 21st century's Silicon Valleys in the UK. The five sectors include digital technology, green industries, life sciences, advanced manufacturing and the creative…