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, […]
Archives for April 2020
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 […]
The S&P 500 is mostly concerned with duration (chart)
Building on my post from the other day, ‘Not Depth…Duration’, I want to show you something from this morning’s Bank of America Merrill Lynch Chart Blast – it shows a very correlation between how bad the drawdowns for the S&P 500 are versus the amount of months a recession goes on for. The longer the […]
Online pharmacies struggle to keep up with demand
Online pharmacies, including 1MG, Medlife and NetMeds, are operating at 50-70% of their capacity, as they continue to face issues related to intercity movement of goods and staff shortage, two weeks into the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown. Although warehouses are open and delivery staff moving freely, they are operating at sub-optimal capacity. Since there is […]
WeWork sues SoftBank for dropping $3 billion tender offer
A WeWork board committee that negotiated a $3 billion tender offer with SoftBank Group sued the Japanese conglomerate on Tuesday for abandoning the deal, accusing it of succumbing to “buyer’s remorse” amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. The tender offer was part of a $9.6 billion rescue financing package that SoftBank agreed with WeWork in October […]
ShareChat bets big on vernacular audiences with micro-influencers
Twitter-backed regional social media platform ShareChat is betting big on its reach among vernacular audiences to drive targeted campaigns by large advertisers in local languages. Executed by micro-influencers and user-generated content on its platform, the company has already carried campaigns by multinationals such as Facebook, Coca Cola, Pepsi along with homegrown giants like Oyo, MTR, […]