Young professionals who lost their jobs tell Rediff.com's Divya Nair how they reclaimed their lives.
Seed and early-stage start-ups are high-risk businesses, rarely have collateral and only 1 in 10 of them makes it to becoming a viable company.
Edtech brands are offering discounts, adding fresh content and engaging more frequently with users during the lockdown, reports Vinay Umarji.
According to experts, this will have major impact on new investments by Chinese players in companies, such as Paytm, Ola, BigBasket, Byju's, Dream11, MakeMyTrip, and Swiggy, when they go for follow-up funding. Chinese investors, such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi, are active in the Indian start-up space, and have collectively invested billions of dollars.
There is no one way to describe the 12 months that have gone by since India reported its first Covid-positive case on January 30, 2020.
Despite lay-offs and the threat of automation, the industry will continue to be an important driver of growth in employment and GDP, says Ashok Soota.
Sidbi acquires Ahmedabad-based start-up at hefty premium; founders deny link to govt.
Not just from the likes of Alibaba and Didi Chuxing, Indian startups saw a surge in Chinese funding from financial investors in 2019. This is a seven-fold jump from $459 million in 2016.
'There is no need to do anything, let your SIPs get deducted every month, and stick to your allocation between equity, fixed income and emergency funds and your risk covers.'
It was widely expected that this time around, the government would be less likely to initiate fresh reforms and rather loosen its belt a little to give various segments of the economy, especially the multitudes that truly constitute India, something to smile about, says Sudip Bandyopadhyay.
For financial institutions, it will be an opportunity to provide better lending options. For instance, customers who pay their overdrafts on time will get access to more credit and probably at a cheaper rate.
India needs to follow countries such as Singapore who have and are further bolstering their cyber security apparatus.
'If you go on with your start up ensure that you put all your might behind it.' 'Ensure that you talk to a lot of people and bounce off your ideas before you go out and make a pitch.'
The company was awaiting clarification from the Reserve Bank of India on data storage before it took a final call on data localisation.
Priyadarshini Maji evaluates the impact that payment banks are likely to have on your financial life.
Experts contend that this setback, even if temporary, could put the company at a disadvantage to its competitors in acquiring new customers.
Interoperability with other insurance companies - apart from banks, medical centres, among others - would be the eventual goal
Physical KYC takes anywhere between two to five working days to get done, V-KYC, only a few minutes.
Ashish Mehrotra, MD and CEO, Max Bupa Health Insurance, explains the changes we can expect in health insurance this year.
'No analogy is perfect, but a better liquid to liken data to is water, with the global internet like a great borderless ocean of currents and tides,' Facebook's vice-president, global affairs and communications, Nick Clegg, said in New Delhi.
Or it could lose you one, says Samali Basu Guha.
While most others have not been able to replicate the WeChat model successfully, experts expect Jio to be able to score on its 300 million plus new mobile phone users.
N Sundaresha Subramanian digs deeper into what Catalyst, an Indo-US project, brings to the payments ecosystem.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.
Take an education loan. Encourage them to freelance while studying.
Or, what will the Indian policy process allow it to be, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
'People can start making a safety net, and that safety net should be at least three months of your monthly salary.' 'If somebody is earning Rs 25,000 then s/he should have at least Rs 75,000 in her/his bank account, so that if anything like this (lockdowns) happens in the future, they are not struggling.'
There's a long way to go before human beings are replaced by machines -- in banks at least.
The last few months have been hard on digital wallets which had a short-lived dream run post-demonetisation.
In July-Sept 2016-2017, TCS had missed street expectations with 7.8% growth in revenue.
Branch additions for most major banks in the current financial year do not correspond to the number of the past two years.
'What made him different was that he was not a banker at all by temperament.' 'He was a businessman, a typical lalaji at that.' 'He had to win at any cost.'
Open loop pre-paid cards come with a two-factor authentication. One for ATMs and PoS transactions, and the other for online transactions
The idea that technology and startups with newer business models will not disrupt traditional businesses has been thrown out the window.
'If the government had not spent an incredible amount of energy on demonetisation it may -- may, because it had not done anything the previous six months either -- have been able to pay attention to the deeper problems of low investment and job creation.'
Droom has seen aircraft such as the Falcon, Hawk and Cessna being rented.
Five inspiring women who travelled thousands of miles to Hyderabad recently to grow their business and skills share their tales of global entrepreneurship. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listened in.
