The fixed line broadband will offer "ultra high-definition entertainment on large screen TVs, multi-party video conferencing from your living room, voice-activated virtual assistants, virtual reality gaming, digital shopping, immersive experiences," Ambani said.
Sticky labour laws and a difficult business environment have led to employers shifting their new hiring in favour of contract labour where social security is much lesser, says Mahesh Vyas.
Brokerage CLSA has raised its "already substantial overweight in India", its chief strategist Christopher Wood wrote on Aug. 7.
Zee and Star, the two largest media companies in India, are undergoing some radical ownership changes. What could it mean? Vanita Kohli Khandekar attempts an answer.
Indians may adopt wait-and-watch policy in first year.
The fund industry may have embraced machines and robots, but managing money still needs the human touch
TCS plans to build ignio as a standalone company.
Financial Intelligence Unit data show many of these societies have become the biggest draw for laundering money. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports.
The company has decided to consolidate its delivery functions horizontally
For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the "beneficiaries" -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is put at the centre of any policy design. This is a crucial way in which experimental results are often better than large scale data-based inference, says Mihir S Sharma.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
The group will be in a better position to now scale up most of its segments irrespective of government policy, but the bad news others add is its growing debt.
These sectors have underperformed the wider market over the past year and are seen having far more upside potential if the economy picks up thanks to Modi's reformist agenda.
'I would want people to have food on their tables and their wages to rise.' 'Will that happen or not is the question that we need to ask and answer.'
With thousands of people receiving ransom messages from cybercriminals every day, Devangshu Dutta explains how you can defeat the hackers.
Mr Prabhu has a big challenge ahead in implementing trade reforms to regain the lost export momentum, says Jayanta Roy.
Intrapreneurs are more diverse in their skill sets and backgrounds, more digitally native, more networked and connected, and more ambitious to do bigger things. A fascinating excerpt from Simone Ahuja's Jugaad 3.0: Hacking The Corporation To Make It Fast, Fluid And Frugal.
'Unless the State is a welfare State, unless the State has more welfare measures, it will not be able to deal with these kind of sudden situations.'
'The attempt to build a negative narrative about India's economic performance is disingenuous.' 'For the investors as well as the targeted beneficiaries of welfare schemes, the ground reality is very different,' argues Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman, NITI Aayog.
The lack of bandwidth and content means it will be a long time before online streaming services take off in India.
Like everything else, the structure of banks may change, and banks may depend more on digital technologies and artificial intelligence for dealing with both their customers and employees.
A total of 180 NSE-listed companies have not appointed a woman director.
The loss of income has severely dented the loan repayment ability of small borrowers
In just three years the online real estate portal has managed to raise about Rs 270 crore.
The S&P BSE Sensex has gained 149 points to open at 25,802.
Might end up with a smaller slice as more contracts get restructured, warn analysts.
Piramal Enterprises has about Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) cash on its books.
'When you forgive a farmer's loans there is this ideological economists lobby which says: 'That's socialism. And that's bad'.' 'But to forgive the loans of big people, so that they will be interested to invest further is capitalism and is good.'
Maruti Suzuki, Asian Paints, L&T, ONGC and Infosys have gained between 1%-1.5%.
A Bank Investment Company to act as a holding company for state-owned banks would go a long way in minimising government interference and improving governance.
He's betting big on small stores to help him reach 10 million households by FY21, report Abhineet Kumar and Raghavendra Kamath.
Nine companies incubating at StartupVillage have made it to the second round of Nasscoms flagship programme to support 10,000 technology startups across India.
Internet users in India is attracting cyber criminals, as these are first-timers, who can be duped easily
'As banks grapple with risk aversion and savers see an erosion in the value of money, the P2P platform can be a win-win for both borrowers and lenders,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Sensex climbs higher at close, bluechip stocks in focus.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
The system has gone through three rounds of testing for its load-bearing capacity.
The BJP in its policy document stated that tourism plays a key role in socio-economic progress through creation of jobs.
'Learning to learn should be given more importance than what is actually being learnt,' recommends Zaki Ansari.
Investors engaged in profit booking in the recent gainers at attractive and higher valuations.
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