NEWS AT A GLANCE
'Info Edge' and Others Invest in E-Commerce Platform 'ShopKirana'
'Mumbai Angels Network' Invests in Startup 'Fric Bergen'
Walmart India Shuffles Top Management, Appoints New Head
Priyanka Chopra-Backed 'Bumble' Debuts in India
Zomato signs in 'Durga Raghunath' to accelerate growth in businesses>

Monthly Archives: March 2017

Gig Economy: A game changer or an exploiter?

Perspective Can we expect a fairer job world in new India? Let’s read… Meghna Maiti As flashy names such as Uber, Ola, Zomato, Paytm, Swiggy rapidly cover the economic landscape, there is a clear change in paradigm. The new India seems to have ushered in ‘Gig economy’ or ‘App economy’ which entails employment related with…
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Chatterjee’s Learning Initiation

Choice is a luxury of the privilege. May be. But it’s definitely the best way to make smarter decisions that often yield beneficial results. So it was not a surprise when Sudeshna Chatterjee, the founder of i-Initiate Learning, an organisation to contribute to our country’s growing need for skilled manpower made the smart choice to…
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Amazon’s Real, Big Indian retail stores dreams

India could represent another big market for Amazon in physical retail, according to a recent report by The Economic Times, sourced from NYT News Service. The company, which has vowed to spend billions of dollars on its efforts in the country, recently sought approval from the Indian government to open online and physical food stores…
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What’s stopping Uber from hiring a diverse workforce?

Uber Technologies faces problems while trying to recruit more women and people of colour at the company, according to a recent news published on Bloomberg. Members of the recruiting team were denied access to information about the company’s diversity makeup, several people familiar with Uber’s hiring apparatus told Bloomberg.To make Uber a company with a…
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