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Shyam Kumar Singh lived in a single room tenement in Mumbai when life took a turn that seemed to be straight out of a Bollywood script, and he struck it rich. A poor migrant from Uttar Pradesh, Singh was an office boy, and the first employee of Citru

When Malaysia based streaming service iflix wanted to increase its user base, it studied the behaviour of their most loyal customers. The finding was interesting their best customers had one habit in common, which was sharing viral content, trailer

1) The Founders Ankit Prasad and Mohd Wassem came together in 2012 to set up a social media platform for artists in India. It had initially gained traction, but later on, the business stagnated due to a small market. The duo then pivoted to launch a

Sunil Harjai, a Noida based leather footwear exporter, is worried. His value added tax refunds worth Rs1.75 crore have been pending with the tax department for five years. Increased competition in the global market and supply disruptions caused by Go

How are you preparing for a future where the internal combustion engine would be a minority in your overall portfolio while hybrids and electric powertrains would enjoy a majority? This is something we have to prepare for and that is what we did. For

The purported leak of personal details of 27 million members of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) earlier this year confirmed by some stakeholders but denied by others has sharpened concerns around digital privacy all over again.

Honchos of two FMCG behemoths, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever, have sparked off a global debate on the safety and efficacy of digital advertising. Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer at P&G, recently called it "murky at best, fraudulent at worse". He

Eva never sleeps. Since she joined HDFC Bank about a year ago, she has been a super performer, having dealt with six million customers so far answering their banking queries and helping them pay their bills. Eva (electronic virtual assistant), a ch

What's the next big thing for smartphones? An in display fingerprint sensor, and Vivo X21 is one of the first devices to come out with it. Unlike traditional sensors mostly placed on the bottom bezel of a phone's front or pushed to the rear, the sens

Compared to the new breed of Bluetooth speakers, the X mini SUPA at 960g weighs on the higher side. But the design and the sound output easily make up for that. SUPA comes with an elegant, straight line design that blends well with any interior, be i

Every time you visit a website, you leave behind a digital footprint. These traces of information might include search history, social media account information, and much more. Some of this is stored in the form of cookies, text files that contain tw

CEO compensation debates in India and abroad are always contentious and have grown more contentious over the past couple of decades as better reporting norms of executive pay have come into effect, as have newer ways of compensating CEOs. The general

My favourite journey is looking out the window," said American writer Edward Gorey. And most will agree with him. A window is a pathway to new light and new truths. Everyone loves a window. What, then, will it feel like to be stuck in a metal tube up

1. Kalanithi Maran Executive Chairman, Sun TV Network. Rs 77.9 crore (2016/17) Rs 71.5 crore (2015/16) KING MARAN Kalanithi Marans annual remuneration at Rs77.9 crore may seem a whopping amount but the fixed component (Rs13.14 crore), like most busin

Stylish Shades Prada is globally famous for fielding products that are whistle worthy. Its Spring/Summer 2018 Collection for women sports clean lines and skilful frames interspersed with feminine accents. The Prada Cinema, an old favourite, has also

1. C.P. Gurnani MD & CEO, Tech Mahindra Rs 150.70 crore (2016/17) Rs 45.36 crore (2015/16) Raising a racing craft I dont believe this is a sinking ship. No longer. This may not be a racing craft yet. But it is our task to make it one," remarked Anand

How much do we understand the world around us? Who do we believe? Are things getting worse or better? The late Hans Rosling, doctor and data whiz, contends we are being misled. And we are being misled, he says in his seminal book Factfulness, because

When the Walmart Flipkart deal was announced in May, there was talk of how it would make 3,000 odd current and former employees of Flipkart millionaires. These employees mostly from the Flipkart team of 2009 had been given stock options as part o

Anyone who has met both Y.C. Deveshwar, synonymous with ITC, and Sanjiv Puri, the new MD & CEO, knows that they are strikingly different physically that is. And as Puri takes the mantle from Deveshwar, to expect him to slide effortlessly into his m