US internet giant Google has moved the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to get an all-clear for its Rs 33,737 crore investment in Jio Platforms for a 7.73% stake and manufacture a new smartphone in India. As per the CCI filing on Thursday, Google will be making the investment into the digital arm of Reliance […]
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Spotify, Hollywood producer Chernin to adapt podcast shows for films, TV
Spotify has signed a deal with Hollywood production house Chernin Entertainment to adapt the music streaming firm’s podcast shows for films and television and sell them to other outlets, the companies said on Thursday. The deal would unite Spotify, which has more than 1.5 million podcast titles, with media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s former right-hand man […]
CSC eStores post record sales riding on rural demand surge
The central government-backed Common Services Centres (CSC) Grameen eStores exclusively servicing rural markets has done a record Rs 73 crore in sales in the months between April and August, with rural growth continuing to grow faster than urban for packaged consumer goods, CSC chief executive Dinesh Tyagi said. CSC has partnered with close to half […]
COVID-19 is driving a borderless accounting profession – Accounting Today
A new era of work was ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many organizations quickly adapted to the remote workplace, relying heavily on the cloud, Zoom and other technologies to conduct business (not as usual). Several months into this gigantic work from home experiment, accounting professionals around the globe are settling into this new definition […]
Netflix, Amazon Prime are latest weapons in India’s telecom war
By Ashutosh Joshi and Devidutta TripathyIndia’s telecom price war is back, and this time the battle is being fought with freebies. After announcing the first tariff increase in three years in 2019, telecom carriers are offering incentives such as subscriptions to services from Netflix to Amazon Prime to win customers in a content-hungry market. With […]
Facebook’s Oversight Board plans to launch just before U.S. election
Facebook‘s long-delayed independent Oversight Board plans to launch in mid-late October, just before the November U.S. presidential election, although a board member said he did not know whether it would hear cases related to the contest. The board, created by Facebook in response to criticism of its handling of problematic content, will initially have the […]
What Is a Check Register, and How Can It Help You Organize Business Transactions?
As a small business owner, you know how important it is to keep track of your company’s finances. But, sometimes your business bank statement is not up-to-date with the most current information. For an up-to-date picture of your transactions, you can use a check register. So, what is a check register? What is a check […]
FCA lambasts scam ads on Google and social media
FCA chairman Charles Randell has lambasted scam investment advertising on Google and social media. He said it was an area that needed “urgent change.” Mr Randell said many cheated investors were lured to invest via ads they had seen on Google and other search engines. He said it was not just Google advertising that was […]
Kitces & Carl Ep 43: Discussing Financial Advice Fees And Value To Help Clients Better Understand The Benefits Of Financial Planning
Executive Summary In the early days of financial planning when an advisor’s primary function was to provide access to capital markets, fees that clients paid were baked into the cost of the product they were buying. With the advent of planning as a service, however, fee transparency became an important feature for clients. Accordingly, charging […]
Safety of employees, customers ranks as top pandemic-related concern
Finance executives in the United States rank safety of employees and customers as their greatest pandemic-related business concern as some return mainly or entirely to traditional, on-site operations, according to a third-quarter survey. Supplemental questions in the AICPA Business and Industry Economic Outlook Survey, released Sept. 3, dealt with how companies are thinking about remote […]