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Why banks should spend on branches despite increased digital penetration

Though the functions of a branch may have not changed in years, their focus has shifted from transaction to customer retention

Why companies cut wages despite soaring profits amid Covid-19 pandemic

Wages account for a relatively small proportion of the total expenses of corporates in India

Owning databases that we help build: Can it end capitalism as we know it?

Sacrificing some more of our freedom to eternal state surveillance could become a deal with a devil we're growing to know only too well

IRCTC struggles to stay on track as travel worst impacted due to Covid-19

The pandemic has eaten into the profitability of this govt-owned railway catering and ticketing monopoly

Statsguru: 6 charts explain why Punjab stands out on India's agrarian scene

A new study on agricultural markets that goes deeper into the realities of farm marketing in India offers timely insights

Royal Enfield moves through the gears amid growing competition in market

Competition in the middleweight segment and a growing market for electric bikes pose challenges for dominant two-wheeler player

InMobi Group: This Make-in-India innovator is raring to go places

Glance, the home-grown firm's newest business, has just received major funding from an unexpected source - Google - vaulting the 18 month-old-unit to Unicorn status

Beijing should look within: Jack Ma's Alibaba is China's own creation

Alibaba's 20-year rise to supremacy is due in no small part to government policies, which protected and coddled the now-booming internet sector

Wistron controversy unlikely to impact Apple's expansion plans in India

From a small exports market that played second fiddle to the markets in North America, Europe and China, India now features at the top of Apple's priority list

Shape of economic recovery may end up coming from another alphabet

Zeroing in on the alphabet that best describes the unprecedented economic upheaval

This former Facebook India head finds his sweet spot in vernacular content

Umang Bedi's firm VerSe capitalised on the ban on Chinese apps by launching 'Josh', which claims to have over 77 million monthly active users, 36 million daily users ad 1.5 billion video plays a day

Factory floor will see Apple-Tesla tussle as electric vehicle race picks up

Artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea is taking over the self-driving car unit, an indication that Apple sees software and systems as the key ingredient

PM SVANidhi scheme: A thousand hurdles for a Rs 10K loan to street vendors

Implementation of the PM SVANidhi scheme, meant to help street vendors, has been erratic with banks

What we know about the new coronavirus strain discovered in the UK

The new variant of the virus is capable of spreading faster and more easily.

ATC sees huge opportunities in a challenging and competitive market

The firm bought out, recently, Tata group's 12.3 per cent stake in ATC Telecom Tower Infrastructure for Rs 2,480 crore, raising its stake to 91 per cent

Insurers are going digital, but their systems are far from robust

Many companies are using the building blocks in which they have invested to expand their digital offerings instead of taking the bold gambit of installing a new operating system

Past imperfect, present better, future uncertain

Incidents of corporate loans turning bad could be less than anticipated, but the banks' challenge will be retail loans. Large-scale job losses will have a bearing on the retail portfolio

PE/VC investments decline 8% to $41.4 bn during January-November 2020

PE investments in Reliance Group entities accounted for 42%

Laxmi Prasad: Air India bidder who tried to buy everything under the sun

Prasad is putting his financial muscle behind the employees' resolve to run the airline

Lakshmi Mittal's journey a year after he came home to buy Essar Steel

It has been a mixed bag for the firm he renamed AMNS India, and while the pain of the downturn and the pandemic has subsided, other issues remain