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The FAANGs are back and sharper: Global tech giants' 10-year bet on India

Google and Facebook have all-weather partner in Jio. Apple will manufacture in India. Amazon is cementing its dominance. Latest moves by tech giants will have a lasting impact on India's digital space

The chance to tame Covid-19 pandemic squandered after a good start

Adaptive Control model suggests India had shown improvement in the second week of August, but lost the opportunity later

India needs to be careful not to tip its hand, says Paul Staniland

There will be very strong interest in cooperating with India under any future American administration, he says

Rajiv Kumar's record is of getting things done

He worked under Arun Jaitley, Piyush Goyal as well as Nirmala Sitharaman in the finance ministry, where he took charge as finance secretary in July 2019

How Tata Steel's Europe ordeal has encouraged it to re-focus on India ops

In the first quarter of FY21, Tata Steel Europe's EBITDA loss was at Rs 626 crore, owing to a weak European market

Jack Ma's Ant Group files for Hong Kong, Shanghai dual listing

nt will have an elephant-sized coming out party: With one swoop, the dual listing will invigorate Shanghai's technology-focused Star board and provide some welcome market buzz for Hong Kong

Airtel is stretching frontiers of competition with a three-pronged attack

The country's second largest mobile services operator is launching a three-pronged attack in the battle to provide cost-effective, high-speed internet connectivity

Subordinate debt: A way for govt to hand out cash to needy MSMEs

The scheme provides liquidity to stressed MSMEs without really burdening them with heavy debt obligations and the banks are guaranteed the loan amount so they don't have to worry about repayment

Statsguru: India's gold demand declines as prices shoot up amid Covid-19

While gold prices started firming up in 2019 itself, the yellow metal became the costliest ever in history and touched $2,067/oz on August 6, 2020

GoAir and SpiceJet: Two flight paths to survival as aviation crisis deepens

The strategies of the second and third-largest private airlines - GoAir and SpiceJet - offer a study in contrast

Slight genetic changes of virus don't change strain, say geneticists

Geneticists from Delhi's CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Vinod Scaria and Bani Jolly, tell how they are tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in India

Holiday Inn may offer refuge from the current crisis due to pandemic

France's Le Figaro newspaper reported that Accor's CEO, Sebastien Bazin, considered an approach for the rival company before deciding the timing wasn't quite right

Alibaba Group's growth is not a recovery for investors to celebrate

Investors who want to cheer a recovery for China's largest e-commerce company should keep in mind what it is they're celebrating

Red signals on green norms: Controversy over draft EIA notification

The controversy over the draft rules for environment clearances has created more heat than light

Tata's Air India gamble could reveal the path of group's aviation business

A possible bid for this troubled state-owned airline could be the first move towards bulking up its underwhelming aviation business

Remote working: What the 'tech exodus' means for the Silicon Valley

Apple and Alphabet have long been deeply office-oriented; Yahoo, Best Buy and Reddit ended up reversing course on their flexible work arrangements in the past decade.

Covid-19 pandemic puts the bloom on edtech sector as learning goes online

Start-ups jostle to tap India's $180-billion education sector as Covid-19 forces learning to go online

Turnaround expert Kaushik Khona back in GoAir's cockpit for second innings

Khona's abilities will be put to test again as he begins a second innings at the Wadia group airline

Covid-19 curbs make e-commerce viral: Amazon, Flipkart see record sales

Amazon and Flipkart saw record sales during their pre-Independence Day promotions. But this surge does not indicate a decisive revival in consumer sentiment. Here's why

Crime-tracking app Citizen now alerts users to Covid-19 infection risk

Citizen, known for location-based crime alerts, on Thursday launched a feature called SafePass that it's already calling the largest private contact-tracing network