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WhatsApp still barely makes Meta any money. Can Kunal Shah change that?

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By John Xavier Verified
| The Hindu Verified
Every business Meta builds or acquires is centred around community and advertisers. Take Facebook for instance: Mark Zuckerberg built it while he was at Harvard, creating a new urban town square on the internet. The web-based application caught the zeitgeist and moved from strength to strength. Back then, the platform solved a distance problem. Friends who relocated after college connected with each other on the platform.
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MINI Countryman C launched in Chennai, rolls out as a locally manufactured premium SUV

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By John Xavier Verified
| The Hindu Verified
MINI has strengthened its presence in India’s premium compact SUV segment with the launch of the all-new Countryman C, which will now be manufactured locally at BMW Group Plant Chennai. The launch marks a significant milestone for the British-born marque as the Countryman becomes the first locally produced petrol variant of the model in India.
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How are organisations reckoning their AI addiction

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By John Xavier Verified
| The Hindu Verified
In December 2025, Microsoft opened the doors for thousands of its engineers to use Anthropic’s Claude Code — an AI coding assistant — as part of an internal experiment to benchmark the best tools available. That test worked too well as some employees decisively chose it over Microsoft’s own AI coding assistance — GitHub Copilot CLI.
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