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The digital media company appears to have quietly changed its strategy, after the failure of its short-video platform Josh and amid a rush to get to a public listing.

Umang Bedi is a master salesman. Or at least that is how he is most commonly described by those who have worked with or around him over the years.
Bedi is the chief executive officer at VerSe Innovation, parent to the popular news aggregator Dailyhunt and short-video platform Josh. Before this, he was the India and South Asia managing director of Facebook. And before that, he was the South Asia managing director at Adobe. So, of course, Bedi knows how to sell. “More than the product, he knows how to sell a story,” a social media executive had said a …
The Walmart-owned e-commerce company has entered microdramas and food delivery. Is it thinking long-term or just chasing a trend?
A churn in venture capital collides with the fear of missing the AI wave, while the Ajay Singh-led airline’s recurring crises raise deeper questions.
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.