Karnataka has decided to hold a meeting with senior executives of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to seek their inputs on how they can filter out “inflammatory” and “objectionable” content and prevent those from being posted on their platforms. “We plan to hold this meeting in about a week’s time,” home minister Basavaraj Bommai told […]
Archives for August 2020
RIL may buy Urban Ladder, Milkbasket to boost e-tail
Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks to acquire online furniture brand Urban Ladder and milk delivery platform Milkbasket as it looks to strengthen its e-commerce play, said multiple sources familiar with the matter. This comes at a time when the Mukesh Ambani-led conglomerate is also said to be in talks to acquire players like e-pharmacy […]
Errors in Employer PAYE Accounts identified
Several of our clients have received HMRC notifcations of late payment of their PAYE over the last few weeks. In April, May and June this was often because employers were out of their usual routine and forgot to set up payments, although a couple did think they didn’t have to pay when they were using […]
Urban India’s reverse migration from mobile to desktop
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi India’s urban professionals are reverse migrating to desktops from mobiles during the pandemic, as hundreds of thousands of them relinquish their “always on the move” tag to work from home. According to Google Trends for India, interest in queries with the term “for desktop” rose sharply starting in March, when the lockdown […]
Banks issued 1.6 crore new debit cards during peak lockdown
Indian banks issued more than 16 million new debit cards during the peak months of the lockdown amid an increased demand by customers for contactless cards during the pandemic, dovetailing also the banking regulator’s directive to replace the old magnetic stripe cards with the new contactless variant. Bankers and payment experts said this — mostly […]
Attention Texas Financial Advisors
Below is a map with all of the places we have financial advisors to serve clients locally and regionally. What’s missing? Well, the big, glaring omission here to me is Texas. It’s the second most populous state behind California with over 29 million people. There are more than 500,000 households in Texas with over $1 […]
Parliamentary panel on IT to look into Facebook’s content takedown concerns
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology will look into reports that Facebook did not pull down hateful content posted by BJP legislators on its platform as it looked to seek favours from the government. “I will look into the issues raised & of course seek to hear from those named,” Shashi Tharoor, Kerala Member […]
The India story after 25 years of internet and how it has transformed our lives
When VSNL launched the internet in India on August 15, 1995, optimism about the new arrival was high. Even in those days of dial-up lines, big machines and steep tariffs — when the internet’s future looked fuzzy and potential barely discovered — the world was aware of its promise. The information superhighway was supposed to […]
Brigade Bookkeeping Named 4th Best Small Company To Work For by Florida Trend Magazine
I’ve been waiting to tell you, and now, I’m thrilled to announce that we did it AGAIN! We are in the TOP 5! To qualify, companies employ at least 15 individuals in Florida and have been in operation for at least one year. To participate, we underwent an evaluation of our workplace policies, practices, philosophy, […]
CDC says quarantine guidance does not imply immunity to coronavirus for 3 months
A pedestrian wearing a protective face mask walks past the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg via Getty Images The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clarified on Friday that its updated quarantine guidance does not imply people who are […]