Indians prefer to buy electronic products such as smartphones offline. The reason being the ability to "touch and feel"
Urvi Malvania reports on the restructuring expected at Disney India under new MD Mahesh Samat.
The lack of a strong diversity policy on the part of companies, a limited pool of women candidates as well as socio-cultural factors contribute to their low numbers.
Nearly 31 million Indians are unemployed and looking for jobs. While economic growth has been humming along, the pace of job creation has been poor. A revealing excerpt from Dev Kar's India: Still A Shackled Giant.
Pichai will visit India accompanied by the heads of various Google business units
In India, 60 per cent said they think they have the skills needed for their careers
ONGC was the top performer while private banking major ICICI Bank extended gains
FinMin's project will enable tax man to track electronic transactions like RTGS or NEFT.
New regulatory rules, softer freight rates and a liquidity crunch at non-bank lenders are among the reasons.
We need to create collaborative and/or disruptive platforms like Uber and Airbnb in all sectors to ensure responsive and responsible inclusive growth, says C P Gurnani.
Or, what will the Indian policy process allow it to be, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Make in India needs policy support for access to markets.
Renault to launch MPV Lodgy to boost sale in India
From a 15-16-level hierarchy, the organisation is moving to a flat five-level hierarchy.
One risk of investing in a very low-cost ETF is if a fund house runs it at below cost, it could close it if it fails to attract institutional money
India was less directly affected by the Chinese stock market rout and yuan devaluation that battered currencies and markets in the region.
Flexibly targeting inflation is consistent with a demand stimulus, says Ashima Goyal.
While retail sales at dealerships have suffered the full impact of demonetisation, the growth in wholesale volumes comes as dealers had relatively lower inventory after Diwali in October.
Rise in crude oil price and rally in global equities aided the sentiment
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
The new obsession on cost control is powered by the company's 'GEAR' (Generate idea, evaluate, action and realise the idea) programme.
There was no relief for existing home buyers who are stuck in stalled projects and are paying both rent and EMI on their home loans.
Paytm is just embarking on building a TaoBao like entity in India, it may want to address a challenge that the latter faced a few years after its launch.
Akito Tachibana, who took charge as managing director at Toyota's India operations from April 2016, talks to Ajay Modi on Delhi diesel car ban and DeMo.
The addition of a mobile payments service to Apple Inc's next iPhone could help to boost sales of the larger-screen phones and claw back market share lost to mobiles running on Google Inc's Android platform.
A break-up of business shows that 75% of a firm's turnover is led by volume growth, while 25% is price-led. Companies such as Britannia, Nestl, Dabur, Marico, Kellogg, Parle Products, and Hindustan Unilever have increasingly focused on smaller packs of their key products, aimed at improving sales.
Brands in India are finding newer, more innovative ways to engage with a wider audience during festivals. But they still have a long way to go before they match global campaigns.
After the recent attack on debit cards exposed the gaps in their security systems, banks are getting serious about data privacy.
In its bid to grab eyeballs in the regional space, Big Magic rebrands channel, sets up production unit in Patna
Microsoft has launched the Lumia 830, 735 and 730, priced at 330 euros (about Rs 26,190), 219 euros (about Rs 17,370) and 199 euros (about Rs 15,800), respectively, as it tries to build on its acquisition of Nokia's mobile division earlier this year.
Exports are slowing and economic growth in major markets for Indian goods has taken a hit.
CMC has strong presence in the domestic market. It certainly compliments TCS.
India and US keen to strengthen trade ties, hold talks after 4 years.
Maruti will showcase its first concept electric vehicle, the e-SURVIVOR; M&M it's six new EVs, including two futuristic concepts
Modi is scheduled to meet over 50 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies over dinner hosted in New York on September 24.
Nearly 92% of the 250-mn smartphones run on Android.
All the fixes require either the enactment of a data-protection law, or the amendment of our existing competition law. This can take many years. However, there is an opportunity for the government to act immediately if it wishes to, says Sunil Abraham.
Given the current global cues, if the next six months do not turn out to be the way we would want it to, we are definitely looking at a very gloomy start to 2016.
'We can't have the best of both worlds -- large, efficient, world class government-owned banks, doing social banking and making profits. 'Why not set them free from the shackles of such obligations and run them as business units?' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
