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From Patna to Coimbatore, local play works for Snapchat

Mint Mumbai

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September 26, 2025

Snapchat's attempts to tailor its app, features, and content experience to suit local tastes, aesthetic sense, culture and user behaviour have seen its popularity soar in India.

- Lata Jha & Pratishtha Bagai

From Patna to Coimbatore, local play works for Snapchat

Saket Jha Saurabh, director and head, content and augmented reality partnerships, Snap Inc.

The time spent watching content on the American multimedia instant messaging app has doubled in India over the past two years, boosted by its efforts to customize the service and deepen engagement with Gen Z, whom it views as its key target audience, a top company official said. The company declined to share the exact time spent on the platform, but industry estimates put it at 15-30 minutes per day per user in India, where it has 250 million active users.

The company said the number of official Snap Stars (a verified Snapchat creator recognized for high-quality content, public presence, and popularity) in India has risen by 1.5 times in the past two years.

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TCS, Wipro US patent suits worsen IT's woes

Two of the country’s largest information technology (IT) services companies—Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Wipro Ltd—faced fresh patent violations in the last 45 days, signalling challenges to their expansion of service offerings.

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2 mins

November 25, 2025

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Mint Mumbai

AI bond flood adds to market pressure

Wall Street is straining to absorb a flood of new bonds from tech companies funding their artificial intelligence investments, adding to the recent pressure in markets.

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4 mins

November 25, 2025

Mint Mumbai

Mint Mumbai

Auto parts firms spot hybrid gold

Auto component makers are licking their lips at the ascent of hybrids, spying a new growth engine at a time when electric vehicle (EV) sales have not measured up.

time to read

2 mins

November 25, 2025

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Mint Mumbai

Diwali is past, but shopping season is roaring ahead

India's consumption engine appears to be humming well past the Diwali rush, with digital payments showing none of the usual post-festival fatigue.

time to read

3 mins

November 25, 2025

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Mint Mumbai

HOW TO SPOT A WINNING STARTUP IPO

As a flood of new listings burns small investors, we investigate the overlooked metrics

time to read

9 mins

November 25, 2025

Mint Mumbai

WHY INDIA HAS FAILED TO CURB AIR POLLUTION

Despite massive funding, India has failed to make meaningful progress in combating air pollution. Beijing's dramatic turnaround over the past decade offers crucial lessons.

time to read

4 mins

November 25, 2025

Mint Mumbai

Micro biz has a harder time securing loan to start up

Bank lending to first-time micro-entrepreneurs has plummeted, signalling tighter credit conditions for small businesses already struggling with cash flow pressures and trade turmoil. In the first six months of the fiscal year, a key central scheme to support such lending managed to sanction just about 12% of what was sanctioned in the entire previous fiscal year, official data showed.

time to read

2 mins

November 25, 2025

Mint Mumbai

Mint Mumbai

Inverted duty fix is next on GST agenda

GST Council to expand work on fixing anomaly at next meet

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2 mins

November 25, 2025

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Mint Mumbai

Why was a fresh approach to QCOs needed?

The government is now withdrawing the quality control orders (QCOs) issued earlier across sectors. Mint examines the original intent, the reasons for the policy reversal, and the expected national benefits from this move.

time to read

2 mins

November 25, 2025

Mint Mumbai

Climate: Hope lives

Climate change could be described as a \"tragedy of the commons.\" That is, one where a shared resource, such as the planet's atmosphere, gets degraded because everyone has an incentive to put immediate self-interest above what's good for all.

time to read

1 min

November 25, 2025

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