Confined to her home during the lockdown, Gwalior-based 37-year old Mansha Kasture is reliving childhood memories with her 8 year-old daughter, Mishika, watching Ramanand Sagar’s epic ‘Ramayana’ on DD National. Kasture is amongst the current generation of parents, who are introducing their kids to old iconic classics on Doordarshan channels during the lockdown period. If […]
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For many, digital payments is the way to buy essentials
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Consumers are increasingly using digital payments to buy essential items and services such as food, grocery, medical supplies, telecom recharges and utility bills, amid the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 virus outbreak. Companies that are processing these digital payments have such transactions surge even as spend-heavy sectors […]
Xero HQ Payroll is now live
Xero HQ Payroll helps accountants and bookkeepers stay on top of their clients’ payroll and compliance, with a single aerial view of all payroll tasks. It makes payroll work easier, faster and more efficient, so you can spend less time hunting for information and more time supporting your clients through this difficult time. Unlike spreadsheets, […]
Heroes of the New Bear Market: What Are Your Thoughts?
[embedded content] On an all new What Are Your Thoughts – Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown discuss: * Are there any Crisis Stars being created on Wall Street during this bear market?* Human behavior in a bear market has not changed much* Why this won’t be the next Great Depression* Michael thinks he’s one […]
7 ways for financial advisors to boost video engagement
Here we all are, sitting at home, trying to keep the kids out of the frame for the Skype call, just waiting to go back to business as usual. By now, most of us have realized business may never be quite the same again—and we better get used to it, fast. For the financial industry, […]
4 ways to reduce anxiety and social isolation
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has turned the world upside down. This upheaval, compounded by social distancing and stay-at-home orders, has evoked feelings of fear, insecurity, lack of control, and anger. A Harvard Business Review article equates these feelings to grief and explains the nonlinear way grief manifests, which means that you might find yourself bouncing […]
Netflix strengthens its parental controls with profile pin protection & more
Video streaming major Netflix is rolling out a slew of new features to strengthen parental controls on its platform. Parents will now be able to set 4-digit pins for individual profiles that prevent kids from accessing them and also creating new profiles on the service. They will also have the option of removing specific series, […]
How to Open Zerodha Account for Demat & Trading?
How to Open Zerodha Account for Demat & Trading? – Opening a demat and trading account is one of the mandatory requirements for investing in the stock market. When I started investing in the stock market, I selected ICICIdirect for opening a demat account. As I was holding a saving account at ICICI Bank, it was […]
Tips for Working from Home
Last week I asked an adviser how he was settling in after he started working from home. He readily admitted that it was a challenge as he hunched over his dining room table. As you may know, Susan Kornegay and I have run Pathfinder for the past 10 years from her home. She has an […]
ETtech Top 5: VCs want Sidbi to ease sops criteria, hiring activity falls & more
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi VCs want Sidbi to ease sops criteria The news A lobby representing private equity firms and venture capitalists has requested state-run Small Industries Development Bank of India (Sidbi) to ease the qualifying criteria for its recently announced Covid-19 Startup Assistance Scheme (CSAS). The purpose The was launched by Sidbi as an interim […]