A New Year is about looking forward and planning what you are going to achieve in the next six months, the next year or perhaps the next five years. But a New Year is also about looking back to what you have achieved in the previous year or years. If you don’t look back sometimes […]
Archives for January 2020
Baidu CEO makes first India trip as it catches up with Alibaba, Tencent
Robin Li, the founder and chief executive of Chinese search engineBaidu, has made his first ever visit to India, at a time when rival Chinese technology giants Alibaba and ByteDance are making inroads in the country. Li is also seeking collaborations with Indian institutes as his company seeks local expertise in areas such as artificial […]
Ola rejigs commissions to retain drivers
Cab aggregator Ola is adopting standardised driver commissions and moving away from an incentive-driven model to give its drivers better visibility into their earnings in a bid to revive the supply of drivers that has taken a hit over the past year. The ride-hailing company is also making a strong push towards leasing business to […]
Samsung is getting ready to show lifelike ‘artificial human’ project
Samsung logo at store in Shanghai. A South Korean multinational conglomerate. Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Samsung is expected to unveil its futuristic “artificial human” project at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday. Social media accounts for Samsung’s Neon have teased the mysterious technology ahead of a keynote by Samsung […]
How online shopping boom has created a new sector of employment
Key to a great online shopping experience is the final delivery of that box home — on time, always, intact — come rain, hailstorm, blistering summers or the cold wave currently sweeping across most of north India. The experience that starts on a shopping app ends with a delivery agent knocking on the door. Unlike […]
Humans of gig economy: The cultural transformation of the delivery agent
Like all self-respecting youngsters in Guwahati, Pranjit Haloi had exciting plans for the New Year’s Eve. The 20-year-old was going for a gig to the city’s popular Lalmati area. But he wasn’t there to join a throng of some 200 headbangers in the audience. He performed on stage, to applause worthy of the new singing […]
Be an accounting hero in 2020 with this QuickBooks training – New York Post
If Microsoft Word set the gold standard for word processing programs, QuickBooks® has the accounting game on lock. Used by individuals, small businesses, and international conglomerates alike, this software allows anyone to keep tabs on their finances and stay on top of their taxes. Now, if you’re entering 2020 still clueless about how to navigate […]
Hard to have euphoria when everyone’s expecting pink slips
I was way ahead of this one. I had almost forgotten I’d written it until someone emailed me. This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about the massive drop in headcount among analysts on the sellside. As more institutional money goes toward quant strategies, passive indexing and private equity, and trading commissions drop […]
Russia begins TurkStream gas flows to Greece, North Macedonia
SOFIA (Reuters) – Russia has started European gas deliveries through the new TurkStream pipeline to Turkey, Bulgaria’s Bulgartransgaz said on Sunday, as Moscow looks to reduce shipments via Ukraine. Russia is building TurkStream and doubling the capacity of NordStream across the Baltic Sea to Germany as part of plans to bypass Ukraine in its gas […]
New M&A target for RIAs? Accounting firms
Accounting firms may be the next acquisition target for fast-growing RIAs. Mariner Wealth Advisors, a $31-billion RIA based in Overland Park, Kansas, inked deals to buy two tax practices. More such deals may be on the way, according to industry consultants. “The shift is to a more robust family office services platform and the trend […]