Pressure on BlackRock Inc’s record on climate issues may be having an effect as the world’s largest asset manager weighs firming up its interactions with portfolio companies.
Archives for 2019
Data in the Driving Seat of Autonomous Vehicles
Understanding how to capture, process, activate, and store the staggering amount of data each vehicle is generating is central to realizing the future of AVs. Image: temp-64GTX – stockadobe.com Autonomous vehicles have long been spoken about as one of the next major transformations for humanity. And AVs are already a reality in delivery, freight services, […]
Credit Suisse admits surveillance of second executive
Credit Suisse on Monday admitted it was behind instructions to carry out surveillance on a second executive, after dismissing a previous similar incident as an “isolated event”.
Credit Suisse admits surveillance of second executive
Credit Suisse on Monday admitted it was behind instructions to carry out surveillance on a second executive, after dismissing a previous similar incident as an “isolated event”.
SoftBank’s $3 billion WeWork financing talks stall with Japan banks: Sources
SoftBank Group’s talks to secure $3 billion from Japan’s three biggest banks have stalled as the lenders have hit internal lending limits to the firm, two people said, complicating a $9.5 billion rescue package for WeWork. The Japanese technology conglomerate is now likely to enter the new year without the WeWork financing in place, the […]
Code decode: Newer challenges for professional coders
Representative Image Piyush Mishra, 30, started programming when he was 16. An IIT graduate who had moved back to his hometown in Balasore, Odisha, taught young Mishra the basics of coding. Gradually, Mishra, who studied in a government school in Balasore, mastered PHP, Flash and HTML, and started coding for local entities — a cricket […]
Have 60% revenue market share in food delivery: Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety
Talks of potential consolidation in the online food delivery space involving Zomato and UberEats does not worry Swiggy co-founder and CEO Sriharsha Majety. In an exclusive interview with TOI, Majety said Swiggy, with a $3.3-billion valuation, will continue to have a dominant market share both in revenues and number of orders. Swiggy said it crossed […]
Data policy tweaks set to keep India Inc busy in 2020
As 2019 comes to an end with the introduction of the long-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill, India Inc awaits yet another year of hectic technology policymaking that will seek to regulate everything from personal and non-personal data, technology intermediaries, ecommerce companies, over-the-top platforms, cloud services and digital taxation. Technology companies will have their hands full […]
Trump says trade deal with China to be signed ‘very shortly’
President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States and China would “very shortly” sign their so-called Phase One trade pact.
European liquor off the menu in Indonesia as trade row escalates
What started as a spat with the European Union over Indonesian palm oil has escalated into a far broader trade dispute with imported European spirits and now dairy products caught in the crossfire.