Last March, a missing 11-year-old girl was found in a South Carolina motel room when a motel clerk called police after seeing an Amber Alert on Facebook, according to the company and reports at the time. The Amber Alert warning system was started after the 1996 kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman in Arlington, Texas. Since then, more than 700 children have been found as a direct result of […]
The staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. offer an in-depth understanding of what’s essential to any business plan, what’s appropriate for your venture, and what it takes to ensure success. In this edited excerpt, the authors offer a list of some non-standard items you may want to include with your business plan. A business plan is a story, the narrative of your enterprise, and you want to maintain a certain amount […]
The key to learning and memory in early life is a lengthy nap, say scientists. Trials with 216 babies up to 12 months old indicated they were unable to remember new tasks if they did not have a lengthy sleep soon afterwards. The University of Sheffield team suggested the best time to learn may be just before sleep and emphasised the importance of reading at bedtime. Experts said sleep […]
Kamal Haasan has made Pongal doubly special by releasing the trailer of his much awaited film – Uttama Villain. Kamal always believes in coming up with unusual concepts in his films and ‘Uttama Villain’ comes across as an addition to the list of films which have made the stalwart an institution. The film also features the Late K Balachandar, K Vishwanath, Jayaram, Urvasi, Pooja Kumar and Andrea Jeremiah. ‘Uttama Villain’ […]
John Sculley has had some failures, but there’s one in particular that might always define his career. Back when Sculley was CEO of Apple in the late 1980s, he gave the go-ahead to an idea called the Apple Newton. It was an early iPad, basically, with a personal assistant that would pave the way for today’s Siri. Seeing it as the future, Sculley dropped more than $100 million into the […]
Yes, 200 crore. That’s not what you expect from a guy who doesn’t wear a shirt, no matter where he goes. Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved is still making people in the air conditioned offices of multi-national FMCGs sweat. Here’s why.The profit is scaling up – massively.toiJust look at the turnover numbers. It’s the kind of business trajectory you’d expect from Bruce Wayne.2012: Rs 450 crore2014: turnover of about Rs 1,200 […]
BENGALURU: Rishad Premji, the eldest son of Wipro’s billionaire chairman Azim Premji, could assume the vice-chairman’s position in the coming months, sources close to the company said. Rishad, currently the chief strategy officer of the $7.3-billion IT company, is expected to join the board when executive director and CFO Suresh Senapaty retires from the company in March. This clearly indicates that Rishad is being steered to represent the interests […]
What’s the one thing that can make a winter’s night out camping more fun? Roasting some delicious and spongy marshmallows over a flaming hot bonfire. But how about taking this fun little activity to the NEXT LEVEL? Meet Simon Turner who chose to sear his marshmallows over an active volcano. Yes, we gasped too. Call it adventure or call it stupidity but Simon from New Zealand along with colleague Bradley […]
From the Bansals of Flipkart to Bhavish Agarwal and Ankit Bhati of Ola Cabs, India has seen a surge in the generation of avant-garde innovations and entrepreneurs. More and more Indians are finding their names being listed with iconic entrepreneurs and demi-Gods of startups, like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Recently, celebrating the theme of entrepreneurship in India, Singapore’s DBS Bank released a video story of Asha and […]
The upcoming Bollywood movie ‘Rahasya’ is out with it’s gripping trailer. The section of realistic movies has been doing pretty well lately in the Bollywood industry and here is another movie to bring out some hidden truth about a real life incident. The film stars some of the finest actors like Kay Kay Menon, Tisca Chopra, Ashish Vidyarthi, Mita Vashisht and Ashwini Kalsekar. Actor Kay Kay Menon is seen […]
