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South Korean gaming giant Krafton is making a serious long-term bet on India, pushing its total planned investment in the country past five hundred million dollars. The company built its foothold there through gaming but is now expanding well beyond it, signaling that India's startup ecosystem is increasingly attracting patient, strategic capital from global players.
Shifting to infrastructure, Airbnb has quietly pulled off a significant engineering overhaul. Its new flexible authentication system, built around server-driven architecture, cut authentication code by sixty percent, trimmed the web client bundle by one hundred kilobytes, and reduced duplicate account creation by twenty-seven percent. It's a reminder that the unglamorous work of rebuilding plumbing can deliver real user-facing results.
And in the United Kingdom, Hargreaves Lansdown, the country's largest retail investment platform, has reversed its longstanding caution around crypto. Following the Financial Conduct Authority's decision to lift its retail ban on crypto exchange-traded products, the platform is now opening access to crypto exchange-traded notes. It's a notable shift in tone from one of Britain's most conservative mainstream investment gatekeepers.
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