Reliance Jio inks pact with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring Starlink internet to India
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US share market sell-off: Dow drops 1,042 points as Wall Street gets spooked by spectre of “Trump recession”
The worry is that the whipsaw moves by the Trump Administration will either hurt the US economy directly or create enough uncertainty to drive US companies and consumers into an economy-freezing paralysis. The S&P 500 was down 9.1 per cent from its all-time high set on February 19.
Women’s Day 2025: ‘Women and Finance’ survey in India shows 90% of female rural entrepreneurs are diligent savers
The survey, conducted by Haqdarshak and DBS Bank India, has revealed that 100 per cent of respondents in Madhya Pradesh; 95 per cent in Maharashtra; and 73 per cent in Rajasthan set aside a portion of their income as savings.
Artificial Intelligence to eliminate 4,000 jobs worldwide at DBS Bank over 3 years, even as Singapore braces for 2025 layoffs
Even as companies replace human employees with Artificial Intelligence, validating fears of “AI will take our jobs”, new jobs are being created in the field of Artificial Intelligence itself.
A BBC report on DBS said: “The bank’s outgoing chief executive Piyush Gupta also said it expected to create around 1,000 new AI-related jobs.”
Flipkart Leap Ahead selects five innovative startups for its third cohort
The flagship startup accelerator program by Flipkart focuses on enabling technological synergy within the startup landscape and accelerating the growth of early-stage startups.
Singapore Airlines Group revenue up 2.7 percent to SGD 5.2B, sets new Q3 record
Passenger flown revenue improved by SGD 70 million (+1.7 percent), with SIA and Scoot carrying a quarterly record of 10.2 million passengers, up 7.2 percent from the third quarter of FY2023/24.
Government of Sharjah hosts B2B meetings in Mumbai to make Arab emirate a global gateway for Indian businesses
The geographical position of the UAE makes it a strategic hub for international trade, commerce, and logistics. The free zones in the UAE make setting up a business easier. These are attractive elements for Mumbai-based companies, the city being considered the business capital of India.
Innovation in technology gets pride of place in Singapore Budget 2025, driving SG60 economic growth
The Singapore Budget 2025, presented by Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, has put a particular emphasis on certain economic areas as being the drivers of SG60 growth. One of them is research and development (R&D) to promote innovation in technology.
Instagram tests ‘dislike’ button for comments, faces flak
Instagram tests ‘dislike’ button for comments
Paris AI Summit: Sundar Pichai discusses ways Google can work closely with India for digital transformation
Google CEO Sundar Pichai meets Indian PM Narendra Modi in Paris. The French city is hosting AI Action Summit