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Sulekha.com dons new brand identity
MUMBAI: Sulekha.com, a digital marketplace for local needs, has unveiled a new corporate brand identity.
The change reflects Sulekha.com’s new avatar as an e-commerce company focused on local needs.
The new tagline of the company is ‘Delightful discoveries. Everyday’. It captures Sulekha.com’s renewed promise to its visitors to satisfy all their local information needs across multiple domains and delight them with new possibilities.
According to an official statement, the new logo sports metallic sheen and vibrant colours. The fonts used have a contemporary feel and are centered on simplicity and usability.
Sulekha.com is currently running a multi-city campaign to launch the new identity with a host of ATL and BTL marketing activities. It will be spending Rs 50 million during the first month of the launch.
The campaign uses ‘fingertips’ as a motif and features the tagline, “Everything you need in your city. At your Fingertips.”
The campaign amplifies the message that the numerous offerings of Sulekha.com can be accessed instantly and effortlessly through multiple devices like PCs, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, smartphones and landlines, the company said.
Sulekha.com chairman Param Parameswaran said, “Sulekha.com is at an inflection point, having just metamorphosed into an e-commerce company. We have aggressive growth targets for FY13 and are investing heavily in enriching our database and expanding our offerings across multiple platforms. The new brand identity is designed to highlight our customer-centric approach. We want to become synonymous with local information needs in every city”.
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Three senior OpenAI infrastructure executives join Meta
Key members of Stargate project move to rival amid aggressive AI spending race.
MUMBAI: Three key architects of OpenAI’s ambitious data centre plans have switched sides and joined Meta Platforms, according to people familiar with the matter. Peter Hoeschele, who played a central role in OpenAI’s high-profile Stargate initiative, is among the new hires. He is joined by Shamez Hemani, who focused on computing strategy and business development, and Anuj Saharan, another leader in the computing organisation. The Information first reported their departure from OpenAI on Thursday.
The moves come as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to spend aggressively on AI infrastructure. The company is projecting capital expenditure of up to $135 billion this year alone, with hundreds of billions more expected before the end of the decade to support its Meta Superintelligence Labs and new models such as Muse Spark.
OpenAI, which is pushing ahead with massive data centre expansion, had described its early lead in securing computing power as a competitive advantage. Stargate, originally announced last year as a $500 billion venture involving OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, has since become an umbrella term for the company’s broader data centre ambitions. However, the project has seen recent adjustments, including a pause on its UK plans and the decision not to expand the Abilene, Texas site.
A spokesperson for Meta declined to comment, while Hoeschele, Hemani, and Saharan also declined to comment. OpenAI said it was grateful for the contributions of the three employees and remains focused on hiring talent for its infrastructure plans. The company recently brought in former Intel executive Sachin Katti to lead its industrial compute efforts.
In the high-stakes race to build the future of artificial intelligence, talent is proving to be as valuable as computing power itself. Meta’s latest hires suggest the competition for top infrastructure minds is intensifying, even as OpenAI continues to scale its own ambitious projects. The move highlights how quickly the AI talent war is heating up across Silicon Valley.
