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​​On Thursday, Alphabet Inc’s chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that his company’s first made-in-India Pixel devices will be rolled out in early 2024, providing a significant boost to the country’s ambitions to emerge as a global electronics manufacturing hub.

Delhi, including the rural areas in its periphery, is a little over 1,400 sq km. The new greenfield city of Atal Nagar-Nava Raipur is 250 sq km. Amaravati, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, after Telangana took away Hyderabad for its capital, is 217 sq km. The urbanisation challenge India faces is clearly, truly massive. It might be unwise to leave it to the wisdom of state-level politicians, who control land and land use.

"India Inc. will witness a huge dearth of good and experienced independent directors next year," said Berjis Desai, a veteran lawyer and director on several boards. "There are about two dozen professionals who can actually bring value to the table but hundreds of boards will require experienced independent directors and hence we may see a mega churn in several boards," adds Desai, who is on the board of several companies including Great Eastern Shipping, Man Infraconstruction and Jubilant Foodworks among others.

Axis Bank has made remote working part of the key result areas (KRA) for its human resources (HR) relationship partners of various corporate functions, including finance, risk, operations, digital and analytics, said its HR head Rajkamal Vempati.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman again bets on capital expenditure to steer a turbulent economy. The test lies in converting the `10 lakh crore outlay into workable contracts as well as in nudging India Inc to invest

With each edition, ET Campus Stars identifies the best engineering talent from across India and provides them with a platform to showcase their professional and individual competence across different fields. Here’s a snapshot of what the students can expect from the 6th edition of ET Campus Stars program.

Following a massive loss, the high-end exercise equipment company, Peloton, has decided to cut approximately 500 jobs.

In the study, the researchers used an enzyme called BirA*G3, which labels secreted proteins with a biotin tag. These biotin labels were then detected in live mice using a method called quantitative mass spectrometry proteomics, which is used to measure proteins in a sample.

At present, Google's talks are “exploratory” and have spanned across different businesses within Google including search and payments, according to one person cited above who said, “there is a definite interest” in engaging with the ecommerce network.

Bungie will join Sony's PlayStation family, the US company said in a blog post, as the Japanese conglomerate strengthens its network of in-house gaming studios behind hits such as "Spider-Man" to take on cash-rich rivals.

The concept is related to the so-called metaverse, a term coined by author Neal Stephenson.

The competing pitches featuring small business owners have played out over the past year in virtual roundtables and Zoom calls with congressional staff, according to tech lobbyists and antitrust advocates.

From wellbeing days to 24x7 counselling helplines, access to self-improvement, meditation, mental-wellbeing apps, unlimited sick leave policies and regular reach-outs by the top management, India Inc is going all out to help employees deal with the challenges of work in Covid-19 times.

WhatsApp will support more types of messages, like letting businesses send alerts when an item is back in stock.

More than 200 professionals, comprising chief financial officers, company secretaries, and investor relations and compliance personnel, participated in the symposium that focused on shareholder engagement amid the pandemic.

Here is how big tech companies deal with this thorny issue

Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey is bullish on the potential for audio as a new way for people to interact on Twitter, and the company has long bet on live content through partnership deals and acquisitions.

The people who have had access to capital are in the category of haves and that is primarily the organised sector or companies which have access to public markets as also private equity and the have nots are the ones who did not have access to capital, says the banker.

We do not necessarily need a crisis to ignite our agility. Leaders can cultivate an agile culture in their organizations by breaking free from traditional styles of top-down management and enabling greater participation of employees in decision-making. Agile organization also keep customers and their needs at the centre of their business operations.

The product is launching with 30 colleges and universities beginning Thursday.

FLYX is a streaming social network that helps users find recommended content to watch, on the back of a unique algorithm that aggregates reviews from friends, family, and contacts across all major streaming platforms.

The report, “How Video is Changing the World”, found that most people are turning to online video for new forms of interactive entertainment during this pandemic.

Zhang met with Zoom’s Yuan in Menlo Park, California, before an early funding round in February 2015. Yuan explained the business and his engineering work at another video conferencing site WebEx, according to a person familiar with the talks.