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A dozen years ago, the largest internet company in China wasn’t Alibaba or Tencent, but game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. Its founder was a young man named Chen Tianqiao, who had become a billionaire at 30. Chen was more prominent than Alibaba’s Jack Ma for much of the last decade — then he disappeared. He left China, dropping out of public view almost completely. He took his Nasdaq-listed company private in 2012.
Federal Bank, one of the country’s fastest growing banks, is now up to reaching out to the millennials. It has designed and developed several products targeting at this group and now to back these products up, the lender has come up with a 360 degree brand campaign strategy to lure in the GenY.
Former Infosys CFO V Balakrishnan on Sunday said he favoured co-founder NR Narayana Murthy being invited as chairman-emeritus and chief mentor with immediate effect and allowed to take a lead to reconstitute the board to create a long-term and sustainable governance framework.
For Indian origin gamer Saahil Arora, life is a ball. After all, it is not very often that no work and endless computer games help you to become a millionaire. According to esportsearning.com data compiled by Statista, Saahil Arora is the world’s highest earning gamer.
In the summer of 1944, hundreds of royals gathered for the opening of Umaid Bhawan Palace, a magnificent sandstone edifice that dominates the skyline in Jodhpur. It was the last of its kind. Three years later, India was free from British colonial rule, and more than 500 princely states — the semi-sovereign principalities ruled by royal clans — faced an uncertain future. Most have faded into obscurity, but the family that built this palace continues to thrive — in part by converting a section of it into a hotel.
The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships’ satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back-up systems with roots in World War II radio technology.
Ships use GPS (global positioning system) and other similar devices that rely on sending and receiving satellite signals, which many experts say are vulnerable to jamming by hackers.
Bitcoin’s underlying software code could be split to create a clone called “Bitcoin Cash,” potentially providing a windfall for holders of the digital currency.
Mukesh Ambani has elbowed past Li Ka-shing to become Asia’s second-richest man as investors rallied behind his efforts to arm India’s poor with cheap data-loaded phones. Some analysts are beginning to focus on the costs of his ambition.
Facebook Inc chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Sunday called on governments and firms to do more to close the gender pay gap and said both girls and boys should be encouraged to become leaders from an early age. “We need to start paying women well and we need the public policy and the corporate policy to get there,” she said.
“But certainly women applying for jobs at the same rate as men, women running for office at the same rate as men, that’s got to be part of the answer,” she told BBC.
India’s army of jobless citizens is expanding at breakneck speed and lakhs of employed are also becoming redundant due to increasing automation and quick advances in artificial intelligence (AI).
