E-business
Amazon posts record $2bn profit as Prime membership soars
02 Feb 2018
Growing membership of its Prime fast-shipping and video streaming club and the new US tax laws helped Amazon.com outperform its peers like Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft
SoftBank wants Uber to focus on US, Europe and LatAm: report
20 Jan 2018
Softbank has high stakes in all major ride-hailing companies, including Uber and its Chinese rival Didi and India’s Ola, and it wants all of them to make money
Showing MRP, expiry date now a must for ecommerce firms
01 Jan 2018
Starting today, ecommerce companies will have to display maximum retail price (MRP) and expiry date of packaged products sold on their platforms, as well as other relevant details
Showing MRP, expiry date now a must for ecommerce firms
01 Jan 2018
Starting today, ecommerce companies will have to display maximum retail price (MRP) and expiry date of packaged products sold on their platforms, as well as other relevant details
Bitcoin exchange Youbit to file for bankruptcy after cyber-thieves steal a fifth of its clinents’ holdings
20 Dec 2017
UK advertising watchdog, ASA could investigate Amazon for complaints over premium service's deliver delays
18 Dec 2017
Amazon UK drivers overstretched under 'Dickensian' conditions
11 Dec 2017
Hired via agencies and denied the usual employee benefits, Amazon drivers routinely work beyond the legal limit of 11 hours a day, breaking speed limits to meet tight delivery schedules
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The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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