US on Wednesday approved the sale of two key tranches of military equipment with a combined value of $93 million (over ₹823 crore) for India. US' Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said India will receive Javelin Missile System and Excalibur Projectiles along with other related equipment. DSCA said the deals would improve India's capability to counter current and future threats.

Dycom announced a $1.95-billion deal to acquire Power Solutions, expanding its footprint in the fast-growing data-center market. The unit will keep its brand and management. Dycom also posted a 14% revenue jump to $1.45 billion and a 35% EPS rise in Q3, while raising its full-year outlook. Shares rose 6.6% premarket.

Of the 90 companies that raised ₹1.54 lakh crore in 2025, 42 companies' shares are trading lower than their IPO prices, NDTV Profit reported. While 45 companies' shares are trading above their IPO prices, 31 companies' shares had closed in red after first trading day. Among top-performing IPOs, Ather Energy and Quality Power lead with 115% and 108% gains, respectively.

Oklo shares rose 6% premarket after Siemens Energy agreed to design the power conversion system, including an SST-600 steam turbine and generator, for the companies Aurora advanced fission reactor at Idaho National Laboratory. The system is a major long-lead item required before operations can begin. Oklo said using proven commercial technologies helps reduce costs and speed deployment.

Meta has begun notifying Australian users it believes are under 16 that their Facebook, Instagram and Threads accounts will be deleted starting Dec 4, urging them to download or delete their data. Australia will ban under 16 users from holding social media accounts beginning Dec 10, 2025. Meta shares were flat premarket, with retail sentiment neutral on Stocktwits.

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers resigned from OpenAI's board after President Donald Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Democrats' ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Axios reported. Summers said he was grateful for the chance to serve. OpenAI is not publicly traded, and retail sentiment on Stocktwits around the company was trending bearish.

Palo Alto Networks and IBM announced a Quantum-Safe Readiness solution designed to help enterprises defend against future quantum-driven cyber threats, including harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Launching in early 2026, the platform will work across cloud, on-premises and hybrid systems, expanding on the companies strategic partnership formed in 2024.

MP Materials surged 8.5% premarket after announcing a joint venture with Saudi miner Maaden and the US Department of War to build a major rare-earth refinery in Saudi Arabia. Maaden will hold 51% of the JV, with MP and the DoW sharing the remaining 49%. MP was among the top-trending tickers on Stocktwits.

When reading salary slips, people often forget that HRA is taxable if it's availed from the company, but isn't actually paid and LTA is tax-exempt only for domestic travel. Employer's contribution to PF exceeding ₹7.5lakh/year is taxable, and investments in PPF, ELSS or insurance cut taxable income. Salary slips also don't show tax differences under old and new tax regimes.

Joby Aviation signed an MoU with Red Sea Global and The Helicopter Company to begin pre-commercial electric air taxi test flights in Saudi Arabia in the first half of 2026. The partners will create a sandbox to evaluate charging, airspace integration and ground operations, building on similar flights Joby conducted in the UAE earlier this year.

TJX shares rose nearly 3% premarket after the retailer raised its fiscal 2026 outlook, now expecting EPS of $4.63-$4.66 and 4% comparable sales growth. The company cited strong holiday demand and broad strength across divisions. TJX became the top trending Stocktwits ticker as CEO Ernie Herrman said its value-focused treasure-hunt model continues to attract shoppers.

Agios shares crashed 49% premarket after its sickle-cell drug Mitapivat delivered mixed Phase 3 results. The treatment met its primary goal by improving haemoglobin levels, but its reduction in sickle-cell pain crises did not reach statistical significance. The study included patients aged 16 and older.

Lithium stocks spiked on Wednesday as lithium carbonate prices hit 16-month highs, driven by rising energy-storage demand from fast-growing AI data centers. Sigma Lithium surged over 38%, while Atlas Lithium, Albemarle, Lithium Americas and American Lithium also gained. China lithium carbonate futures rose 1.72% to 87,000 yuan per tonne, extending the sectors strong rebound despite YTD weakness.

DoorDash jumped after Jefferies upgraded the stock to buy and lifted its price target to $260, citing long-term growth confidence following a 20% monthly pullback. Analyst John Colantuoni said the company has room in its 2026 projections. DoorDash's Q3 revenue and EPS recently topped expectations, strengthening the bullish case.

Brookfield Asset Management launched a $100-billion global AI infrastructure initiative in partnership with Nvidia and the Kuwait Investment Authority. The program will support a multibillion-dollar fund aimed at powering the next generation of AI systems as demand for high-performance computing accelerates.

The stage-gate model divides innovation into controlled steps, each followed by a gate that reviews feasibility, risk, and resources. Teams progress through concept evaluation, technical checks, business modeling, prototyping, and market readiness. These checkpoints align stakeholders, filter weak ideas early, and guide investment.

A TCS employee was forced to resign last year while he was on emergency leave as his father was in the ICU, IT employees' union FITE said. It claimed that TCS denied his gratuity despite his having sufficient leave balance. It added that after the employee approached the Mumbai Labour Office, TCS was summoned and ordered to pay full gratuity.

Mohandas Pai defended Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy's call for adopting 9-9-6 work culture in India, saying the latter isn't asking "ordinary people working in banks, offices and shops" to follow it. "It isn't for people who wake up at 11am and have tea," Pai said. "If young people...want to become billionaires...they've to do...one year's work in six months," he added.

Email marketing tools now blend automation, segmentation, template intelligence, and behavior-based triggers to boost engagement. Modern platforms analyze open patterns, predict optimal send times, and adjust content dynamically. With automated journeys, conditional branching, personalization, and deliverability insights, they keep communication timely, targeted, and consistently relevant.

The innovation funnel creates a structured path from idea to execution by filtering concepts through discovery, validation, prioritization, and prototyping. This prevents resource dilution by advancing only high-viability ideas. It encourages broad exploration, early assumption testing, and evidence-based refinement, helping teams stay experimental while maintaining operational discipline.

BlackBuck co-founder and CEO Rajesh KN Yabaji has sold 20 lakh shares at ₹676.40 each in a bulk deal, raising about ₹135 crore. After the sale, his stake falls from 11.81% to 10.7%. Major institutional investors including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley participated in the larger block deal.

Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) estimated that Indians will spend ₹6.5 lakh crore on about 46 lakh weddings that will take place during the wedding season from November 1-December 14 this year. Of the total spending, nearly 30% or ₹1.8 lakh crore, will come from 4.8 lakh weddings in Delhi. In 2024, weddings generated an estimated ₹5.9 lakh crore.

Nearly 90% of Indian retail investors discontinue their SIPs within the first three years, according to Zactor Money co-founder, CA Abhishek Walia. This is attributed to emotion-driven investing and panic-quitting during modest market dips, which leads to investors losing the very advantage SIPs offer. Frequent breaks in SIPs weaken the long-term compounding effect, reducing final wealth.

Top seven India-based IT companies had 4,573 H-1B petitions approved for initial employment in FY25, down 70% from FY15 and 37% from FY24, according to US government data. Among employers, Amazon topped with 4,644 approvals, followed by Meta (1,555), Microsoft (1,394), Google (1,050). TCS saw 42% YoY decline in approvals to 846 in FY25, while Cognizant's approvals fell to 743.

Hyundai CEO José Muñoz said that White House called him personally to apologise for the immigration raid at their factory in the Georgia. While speaking at a conference, Muñoz said that governor of Georgia also called him and said, "I don't know what happened, this is not state jurisdiction." Over 300 South Korean workers were detained by ICE in September.