'Hacking of an ID or an account will have the same impact on a user in a city and one in a small town.' 'Security is like a railroad, you create it to last for every customer.'
Even as regulatory focus has zeroed in on foreign e-commerce giant Amazon, a domestic retail giant has been created almost below the radar in Reliance Retail (RR), one of the most crucial businesses for the group's future. From doorstep delivery of groceries, apparels to branded jewellery, medicines, toys, furniture to high street retailing, RR's presence in the world's fourth largest consumer market is just one part of the story.
It designs microsurgical instruments, devices used in minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery devices for ophthalmic therapies and user-centric wearables.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your mutual fund queries.
As competition heats up, health drink brands like GSK, Mondelez, Nestle get more aggressive with promotions and promises.
The survey covered 1,210 IT executives and technology professionals from North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India. In India, 202 respondents from businesses with more than 500 employees across 18 industry verticals completed the survey. Overall, 89 per cent of the respondents said implementing a work-from-home policy had increased security challenges for their organisations. The risk posed by shadow IT was especially high, with 89 per cent of companies having no control over the software that employees purchase and install on their devices.
Where do the commodities market go in the new year? Sonali Ranade offers an insight.
Japan today imports 500,000 tons of coffee annually. Barely 60 years earlier, it was a market that hardly sold a cup! Ad guru Sandeep Goyal reveals how Nestle won the Coffee versus Tea Battle.
The PE biggie has committed to pumping money into Jio Platforms, Byju's and Reliance Retail so far this year - all marquee names in their respective sectors.
'It won't help being complacent about the momentum and valuations of equities that currently exist.'
Usually, a fall in oil prices is followed with a cut in retail prices of auto fuels and the government passes on the benefit to consumers. However, Morgan Stanley believes gains this time around will remain capped.
Byju's acquires licences of hundreds of characters from Disney; to use cartoon characters to teach math, science.
The industry is expecting double-digit growth on a year-on-year basis, helped by a possible price correction after softening of raw material inputs and factors such as positive sentiments, pent up demand and improving economic conditions. Besides, a shift in consumer behaviour from price consciousness towards technologically advanced premium products with quality, value proposition and safety aspects leading to a rise in demand for home automation products is making the industry upbeat. With the government's production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for white goods, which has witnessed a committed investment of Rs 4,614 crore, in place, many manufacturers are gearing up to make the most out of the opportunity as well as take steps towards reducing their dependency on imports and make products more affordable.
What must India do now?
Mobile commerce is on the cusp of taking off in India and the growth curve would be a hockey stick shaped one, says Shubhradeep Guha, Global Capability Lead and Country Manager, SapientNitro (India), an integrated marketing, commerce and technology services firm, part of the $1.02billion Boston-based Sapient Corporation (2011).
Smriti Mundhra's documentary The Romantics has many, many, gems about one of Bollywood's most successful film-makers and more importantly, his iconic father, Yash Chopra.
Both its short video-sharing apps have ranked as the top two breakout social apps of 2019 in India.
Though most of the voice-activated solutions are based in English, work is on to create solutions in Indian languages.
Shailesh Rao has also served as a director for Google based at the company's headquarters in California and was instrumental in the launch of Google Maps and Google Earth globally.
Artificial Intelligence will create 2.3 million machine learning jobs by 2020.
CDC Group, the UK-based private equity fund-of-funds operator, is to invest $250m (pound 126m) in to three Indian infrastructure and real estate funds, joining a growing list of foreign groups targeting the sectors.
The India arm of the 50.9-billion, France-based, Orange Business Services (OBS), offering integrated communication services, is looking at quadrupling its sales in India over the next five years.
There will be a huge market for healthcare professionals, data and security experts and digital marketers, says Navneet Singh, founder, Avsar HR Services.
The biggest worry is not the shrinking of the labour market, but the collapse of good jobs.
Upskilling would not only improve chances of employability but would also increase the scope of jobs based on skills they have acquired over a period of time, says Akhand Swaroop Pandit, co-founder and CEO, The Catalyst Group.
This is the second round of product innovation by Coca-Cola in the country. In the past, the company had launched Sunfil orange juice powder and Vanilla Coke.
It has 18.9 per cent share of the market, down from 22.6 per cent for the third quarter of 2018 while Xiaomi has 27.1 per cent share.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
John Bogle figured that cheap mutual funds, which just mirrored indices with little tracking error, would be a useful vehicle for wealth creation, recalls Devangshu Datta.
The Canadian smartphone maker is banking on its platform-agnostic security and software products to make incursions in the market.
Hiranandnani's new venture is well-timed, but it will face heavy competition from both international majors and domestic peers like Adani Group.
It's also among the top five most valuable Internet companies in India, reports Yuvraj Malik.
'Despite being limited to my house, I was able to interact with a diverse set of people, to try and understand consumer behaviour.'
There seems to be no dearth of funds to fuel this growth, report Peerzada Abrar and Shivani Shinde.
Advertisers like Vodafone in India are already testing these new targeting capabilities with good early results.
The Chinese smartphone maker's focus on offline retail has helped it overtake Samsung in top 50 cities in India.
India is currently home to 52 unicorn startups and one of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems.
Netflix and Amazon Prime gain market share at the cost of Indian platforms Hotstar, VOOT, Jio Cinema.
