Digital campaigning for Delhi’s election scheduled on February 8 is a battle between the two most proficient political messengers on social media — BJP and AAP. A portacabin inside Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official Civil Lines residence is Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) digital headquarters. The messaging this time, says AAP’s social media head Ankit […]
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Behind Amazon’s HQ2 fiasco: Jeff Bezos was jealous of Elon Musk
When Elon Musk secured $1.3 billion from Nevada in 2014 to open a gigantic battery plant, Jeff Bezos noticed. In meetings, the Amazon.com Inc. chief expressed envy for how Musk had pitted five Western states against one another in a bidding war for thousands of manufacturing jobs; he wondered why Amazon was okay with accepting […]
India is next playground for game development
India is becoming a development hub for games, opening up job opportunities in the sector. Currently, close to 23,000 gaming-based job openings are available, with salary packages ranging from Rs 3 lakh to a little over Rs 40 lakh, according to specialist staffing firm Xpheno. UBISOFT, 99Games, GSN, Moonfrog Labs, EA, Nazara Technologies, Octro and […]
German firm finds 1million files of Indian patients leaked
Nearly one million medical files and 107 million related medical images of Indian patients, including X-rays and scans, are freely accessible on the internet, an investigation by German security firm Greenbone Networks has found. The records and images include details such as patient name, date of birth and ID, name of the medical institution, ailment, […]
Revised IT intermediary rules in 2 weeks after law ministry’s nod
The government is expected to notify within two weeks the revised IT intermediary guidelines that seek to make social media companies more responsible for content on their platforms, two government officials told ET. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) will seek the law ministry’s views on the validity of the provisions in the draft […]
How to achieve diversification on the road to retirement
Welcome to Retirement Scan, our daily roundup of retirement news your clients may be talking about. How to achieve diversification on the road to retirementClients are advised to attain diversification in their investment portfolios to ensure that it can support a longer retirement horizon, writes an expert in Kiplinger. This means having to diversify their […]
“25-year-olds should not pay a 31.3x Shiller PE to buy their grandparent’s equities.”
Brilliant anecdote / rant from Eric Peters over the weekend… *** “Let’s start with what I’d tell a 25-year-old to not do with investment capital,” answered the CIO. He’d been asked how our youth should invest for 10-15yrs. “I’d tell them to not blindly follow their parents and grandparents as they pay ever higher multiples […]
Bernard Ebbers, Telecom CEO Sent To Prison In Accounting Scandal, Dies – NPR
Bernard Ebbers built WorldCom into one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, only to see it all end in bankruptcy and federal fraud charges. Stand Honda/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stand Honda/AFP via Getty Images Bernard Ebbers built WorldCom into one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, only to see it all […]
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Apple, Boeing, Verizon, Nike, Uber & more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Wynn Resorts (WYNN) – These will be among casino stocks on watch, on news that gambling revenue in Macao fell a worse-than-expected 11.3% amid the spread of the coronavirus. Delta Air Lines (DAL), American Airlines (AAL), United Airlines (UAL) – These and other […]
Chartered Planner HFMC acquires London wealth manager
Acquisitive Chartered Financial Planner HFMC Wealth has acquired London wealth manager Aspinalls. The deal, completed last week, will add about £1m in annual recurring revenue to HFMC and increase assets under advice and management by about £130m to nearly £1.5bn. HFMC says that the Aspinalls team is a “great fit” and will add more Chartered […]