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 […]
Wolters Kluwer is #AuditorProud
This year, #AuditorProud day was on Thursday, September 26th. During this primarily social event, auditors from all over the place went to town expressing the value and fun of the audit profession. Thank you to the Center for Audit Quality, a non-profit affiliate of the AICPA, for creating this day. You have successfully provided a […]
Can you rely on your audit tool?
Quality is foundational in everything we need to do as a CPA to be the trusted advisor for clients. That really begs the question, can you really rely on the tools that you use for your audits? This is an important question to ask. If fact, there are two aspects to consider – the content and […]
Is Your Audit Practice Evolving or Regressing?
Auditing can be traced all the way back to ancient China, Greece and Egypt. But it wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that the accounting profession took flight. In a time of such explosive business growth, business people realized that there needed to be a systematic way to detect fraud and enforce financial accountability. Today, the […]
3 Ways to Increase Audit Efficiency While Adding Value
Technology is transforming the practice of audit at an unprecedented pace. In fact, it’s not hard to envision audits in the future as entirely untouched by human hands. Indeed this is an exciting future to consider. While you contemplate the long-term implications, though, don’t overlook how technologies available today can help you automate many routine […]
YouTube Music & Premium arrive in India
India’s music streaming market is attracting global giants and YouTube is the latest to enter the fray. The Google-owned service has debuted its music service YouTube Music in the country, offering consumers access to songs, albums, personalized playlists and music videos on the web and its mobile apps through an ad-supported model or monthly paid […]
Apple says ‘it’s show time’ on March 25, TV service announcement expected
Apple on Monday invited media to a March 25 event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, where it is expected to launch a television and video service. Sources previously told Reuters that the company is targeting April for the launch of a streaming television service that will likely include subscription […]