Representative image The Centre is monitoring over 2,500 social media accounts which allegedly spread Chinese propaganda and disinformation on the Sino-Indian faceoff in eastern Ladakh, ET has learnt. The accounts active mainly on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been traced to Pakistan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Russia and China, according to official sources. Document ET […]
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Net pioneer Vint Cerf warns of digital info dark age
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has warned of a digital dark age as information being created online right now may not be readable by machines and software programs of the future. Computer and data scientists globally have worried that all data – this century’s digital history — is at risk of never being recoverable. The vice […]
Net pioneer Vint Cerf warns of digital info dark age
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has warned of a digital dark age as information being created online right now may not be readable by machines and software programs of the future. Computer and data scientists globally have worried that all data – this century’s digital history — is at risk of never being recoverable. The vice […]
Berkshire in Techland
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have studiously avoided the IPO game for almost six full decades now. Here are some quotes from Buffett that should give you some idea of his take on these types of investments: “You don’t have to really worry about what’s really going on in IPOs. People win lotteries every day…” […]
Ecommerce sellers struggle to get inventory up for festivals
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Sellers on e-commerce platforms – many new and some existing ones – are likely to face a funds crunch in stocking up for the upcoming festive season due to a squeeze in working capital loans to small businesses. These small and medium-sized merchants are finding it tough to break out of the […]
Ecommerce sellers struggle to get inventory up for festivals
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Sellers on e-commerce platforms – many new and some existing ones – are likely to face a funds crunch in stocking up for the upcoming festive season due to a squeeze in working capital loans to small businesses. These small and medium-sized merchants are finding it tough to break out of the […]
E-filing problems plague some Sept. 15 tax returns
Tax practitioners who use two CCH return preparation products reported problems with corrupted files and an inability to e-file returns on Sept. 15, resulting in tax returns that were not filed on time. Due to technical problems with CCH’s e-filing system, users were unable to get their returns into the e-file queue for much of […]
Premium tax credit unaffected by zeroing of personal exemptions
In final regulations issued late Tuesday, the IRS clarified that a taxpayer’s ability to claim the health care premium tax credit is unaffected by the reduction of the personal exemption deduction to zero for tax years beginning after 2017 and before 2026, even though the calculation of the premium tax credit depends partly on the […]
Final regulations define ‘qualifying relative’
The IRS on Wednesday issued final regulations under which the reduction in the personal exemption amount to zero for tax years 2018–2025 will not be taken into account in determining whether a person is a qualifying relative under Sec. 152(d)(1)(B) (T.D. 9913). The regulations finalize without substantive change proposed regulations (REG-118997-19) issued in June providing […]
Snowflake is about to make its market debut in the largest ever software IPO
Snowflake banners decorate the New York Stock Exchange to market the debut of the software company’s shares in New York on Sept. 16, 2020. Source: Snowflake Snowflake is set to make its market debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, in the largest ever software IPO. As of 12:32 p.m. ET, shares were indicated to […]