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Instagram said that its internal statistics show that users see child exploitation in less than one in 10,000 posts viewed. The platform, estimated to have more than 1.3 billion users, is especially popular with teens. (Reuters)

Dark truth: Meta's battle against child-sex content on Instagram

13 min read . 09 Jun 2023

File photo of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Spending on travel currently forms the bulk of spending allowed under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme. (Photo: iStock)

Tracing the shifting patterns of remittance flows

9 min read . 08 Jun 2023

HDFC Bank and its mortgage-financier parent HDFC will merge in one of the largest M&A deals of all time in India. (Ashish Asthana / Mint)

Will the HDFC merger live up to its promise?

9 min read . 07 Jun 2023

The family members of men charged with cyber fraud say their relatives are innocent and have been falsely implicated by the police. (Tauseef Shahidi/Mint)

In Delhi’s backyard, a den of cyber thugs

9 min read . 06 Jun 2023

Prathap Reddy, the founder and chairman of Apollo Hospitals. (R.A. Chandroo/Mint)

Prathap Reddy and a plan to secure his legacy

9 min read . 05 Jun 2023

A Pricol factory in Pune where clusters, sensors and fuel pumps are made. Overall, the company has eight plants in India and one in Indonesia. Over 35,000 clusters and 25,000 fuel sensors are produced every day.

Why Minda has its eyes on Pricol’s dashboard

9 min read . 01 Jun 2023

(Left) Martijn Van Der Spek, founder of Sparkling Apps, lives in Thiruvananthapuram. Compared to Bengaluru or Chennai, the city is cleaner, he said. (Right) Ofori, a nightclub in the city, is fully packed almost every evening. (Photo: Vivek R Nair/Mint )

How startups changed Thiruvananthapuram

9 min read . 01 Jun 2023

Social media exposure—designed to maximize user engagement—can overstimulate reward centres in the brain and, when the stimulation becomes excessive, can trigger pathways comparable to addiction. (Ashish Asthana/Mint)

Is your child trapped in a digital abyss?

11 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Employees of Credit Saison India pose for a photograph. The company employs 500. They are spread across different teams, from technology to collections.

Behind the silent rise of Credit Saison India

9 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Until companies like Swiggy, Zomato, BigBasket and other e-commerce platforms begin to make money hand over fist, there isn’t probably an uneven playing field. (S. Sudarshan/Mint)

Is ONDC really the UPI of e-commerce?

10 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Illustration: Ashish Asthana/Mint

Dispelling the finfluencer myth: Be wary of misleading advice

10 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Get, set, bet: Inside a high-stakes battle

Get, set, bet: Inside the high-stakes battle against gambling apps

9 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Credit: Ashish Asthana/Mint

The last draw: Is the next cigarette your last?

12 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Clockwise from left: Jeyandran Venugopal, chief product and technology officer at Flipkart; Rucha Nanavati, chief information officer of the Mahindra Group; Sanjay Mohan, group CTO at MakeMyTrip; Prateek Dixit, co-founder and CTO, Pocket FM.

Generative AI: Why boardrooms must embrace the next frontier of innovation

8 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Inspector general P Prakash heads Kerala’s cybercrime unit called Cyberdome. Data from the National Crime Records Bureau showed a 261% surge in cybercrime against children in 2020, from 305 instances in 2019 to 1,102 cases in 2020.

A police unit's dogged hunt for paedophiles

9 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Illustration: Ashish Asthana/Mint

Does India have room for a dairy behemoth?

10 min read . 05 Jun 2023

(From left:) Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla’s head of charging infrastructure, Zach Kirkhorn, Tesla chief financial officer, and Elon Musk, chief executive, in an image from a video of Tesla Investor Day this year in Texas. US. (Tesla)

The executive keeping Tesla rolling isn’t Musk

9 min read . 05 Jun 2023

IndoSpace’s grade-A warehouse at Oragadam in Chennai.

Meet India’s largest warehousing landlord

9 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Does the Tata Group still need TAS?

9 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Baba Kalyani, chairman & managing director of Bharat Forge, (left) and Sugandha Hiremath, director at Hikal.

Inside the ₹1,300 cr spat between billionaire Baba Kalyani and his sister

10 min read . 05 Jun 2023