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Fynd collaborates with Reliance Brands
MUMBAI: Fynd, a fashion e-commerce portal, is steadily expanding its services with the help of its new feature, Fynd Store.
Early February, Fynd introduced Fynd Store in over 20 brand outlets of Steve Madden by collaborating with Reliance Brands Limited (RBL). By extending this association further, RBL has now decided to take Fynd Store live in stores for its other premium brands as well.
Fynd Store is now live in 17 GAS stores, 10 stores of Brooks Brothers, 7 Hunkemöller, and 17 Superdry stores. Fynd’s new store-integration feature ensures that every customer gets his/her choice of product delivered to their preferred address.
Fynd Store has already been made available in more than 20 Being Human Clothing stores across India, and the feature has been well received by the retailers and customers. Many times, several stores have incurred loss of sales as they were not able to offer a customer a particular size or colour. Fynd Store eliminates this loss in sales (which amounts to up to 15% of an outlet’s sales) by enabling customers to browse through all the products a brand offers through an in-store screen.
Fynd, an O2O company, directly sources products across various categories including clothing, footwear, jewellery, and accessories, from the most prominent brands in the country. By leveraging technology and investing in constant innovation through products such as Fynd Store, the O2O Company offers Indian fashion enthusiasts an unparalleled shopping experience.
Fynd co-founder Harsh Shah, said, “We are now present in over 70 Reliance Brand stores across India and plan to integrate with more brands under RBL by the end of this month. By integrating Fynd Store in its outlets, we are sure that RBL will be able to offer an even more enhanced purchase experience to its loyal and enthusiastic consumers.”
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
