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Sunfeast bakes it special with a first-ever bouquet just for mum
MUMBAI: This Mother’s Day, Sunfeast Baked Creations has whipped up more than cupcakes, it’s cooked up a celebration of mums and their untold firsts with its touching new campaign, Her First Ever. Because while mums are busy being there for our first steps, heartbreaks, and birthdays, they often skip their own milestones.
To turn that around, the brand has launched a fresh initiative that calls on families to give back by creating new ‘firsts’ for the woman who gave them all of theirs. Taking that thought from oven to action, Sunfeast Baked Creations opened its new café on Bengaluru’s MG Road with a fittingly emotional gesture. Indian cricketer Shreyanka Patil’s mother, Pravina Patil, stepped into the spotlight to inaugurate the café, a first for her, and a moment to savour.
While speaking about the campaign ITC Ltd food tech business head Rohit Bhalla. “With ‘Her First Ever’, we wanted to honour not just what mothers do for us, but who they are beyond their roles.Mother’s often miss out on their own milestones while helping us achieve ours. This campaign is our way of encouraging families to create small, joyful moments for her ones that are hers and hers alone. Sunfeast Baked Creations, with its indulgent and thoughtfully crafted creations, becomes the perfect medium to make these memories.”
Speaking on her association with the campaign, Indian cricketer Shreyanka Patil said, “Being a part of this campaign was more than just a collaboration it was personal. My mom has been my biggest supporter and cheerleader, throughout my journey. Seeing her step into the spotlight for the very first time, inaugurating ITC Sunfeast Baked Creations was an incredibly special and proud moment for both of us. I hope this inspires others to do the same.”
To sprinkle more joy on the initiative, the brand has rolled out a limited-edition menu complete with a Mother’s Day Assorted Cupcake Bouquet (“the only bouquet she’s encouraged to eat”), a Pamper Your Mom Hamper for breakfast in bed, and a Heart Bento Cake, all designed to say: this time, it’s all about her.
With Her First Ever, Sunfeast Baked Creations serves a slice of sentiment and a generous dollop of love.
Brands
Google completes $32 billion Wiz deal to boost AI and cloud security
Wiz joins Google Cloud but keeps multi-cloud support across rival platforms
NEW YORK: Google has completed its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security company Wiz, marking the biggest deal in the tech giant’s history and signalling a major push to strengthen security in the era of artificial intelligence and multi-cloud computing.
The New York-headquartered cybersecurity firm will join Google Cloud while continuing to operate under the Wiz brand. Crucially, the company will maintain support for multiple cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, reflecting the reality that most large organisations run their systems across several cloud providers.
Google said the acquisition is designed to help organisations build and scale applications more securely as businesses and governments increasingly move critical systems and data to the cloud. At the same time, the rapid adoption of generative AI has introduced new cybersecurity risks, with attackers also using AI to launch faster and more sophisticated attacks.
Wiz has built a reputation for simplifying cloud security. Its platform maps entire cloud environments, identifying vulnerabilities, potential attack paths and misconfigurations before they can be exploited. By connecting insights from code, cloud infrastructure and runtime environments, it allows security and engineering teams to detect and fix risks early in the development cycle.
Bringing Wiz into Google Cloud will create what the company describes as a unified security platform capable of detecting, preventing and responding to threats across cloud and AI environments. The combined offering will also integrate Google’s own security capabilities, including threat intelligence tools, security operations platforms and the cybersecurity expertise of Mandiant.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the move reflects the growing importance of security as more organisations rely on AI and cloud technologies. “Keeping people safe online has always been part of Google’s mission,” he said, adding that the partnership will help organisations innovate with greater confidence.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, said the goal is to make security an enabler rather than a roadblock for businesses building modern applications. He noted that the combined technologies will simplify the complex task of protecting hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
For Wiz, the acquisition opens the door to global scale while keeping its core philosophy intact. Co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport said the company remains committed to an open, multi-cloud approach and will continue supporting customers regardless of where their workloads run.
Over the past year, Wiz has expanded its platform to address emerging risks tied to AI applications, including tools that help organisations monitor AI usage, detect AI-specific vulnerabilities and secure AI workloads during runtime.
With Google’s infrastructure, artificial intelligence capabilities and security ecosystem now behind it, Wiz plans to accelerate development of its platform while continuing to serve enterprises, governments and start-ups operating across different cloud environments.
For Google Cloud, the acquisition adds a powerful piece to its security puzzle as competition intensifies among global cloud providers. For customers, it promises a future where building fast in the cloud does not have to come at the expense of staying secure.
