Saying it was “too early in life to get serious about money,” Rahul Yadav, the 26-year-old CEO of real estate e-commerce website Housing.com, has allotted all of his personal shares – said to be worth between Rs. 150 crore and Rs. 200 crore – to the 2251 employees of Housing.com, the company said via a press statement on Wednesday. Yadav made this announcement on Wednesday at the company townhall that […]

NEW YORK: A Picasso masterpiece fetched more than $179 million in New York on Monday, smashing the world record for the most expensive art sold at auction in what was dubbed the “sale of the century.” A bronze statue by Alberto Giacometti also broke the record for most expensive sculpture sold at auction, fetching more than $141 million at the same sale in a packed auction room at Christie’s. The […]

Warren Buffett is unquestionably the greatest investor who has ever lived. He possesses an uncanny ability to choose incredible investments that explode in value over time. This ability has earned him a place as the second wealthiest man alive today. Despite his vast wealth, Warren continues display a public persona of humility and common folk wisdom. This attitude has provided him the respect of working people as well as the […]

  Sunil Mantri:  Could you tell something about yourself. Charlotte Rogers:  I’m young and ambitious with a dream of making Aquatiser into something everybody must have. I graduated university at just 21 years of age and the support and response I have had from starting up my own business has driven me to push myself harder each day. I have always been very dedicated and once I have my mind […]

                                         Indians have been known for their gold investments, especially around festive time like Diwali or the Akshay Tritiya which just passed. With gold prices continuing its downward journey and prices falling as much as 10% in last one year, the important question is it a worthwhile buy right now? It […]

Amid growing support for net neutrality in India, several Internet companies have pulled out of Facebook and Reliance Communications’ zero-rating platform Internet.org. Cleartrip, Times Internet, NDTV and NewsHunt, who had signed on as partners with Facebook’s initiative, have announced their support for net neutrality and appealed to other Internet companies to do the same. Cleartrip explained on its blog why it had signed on with Internet.org and says that Facebook […]

WASHINGTON: Applications for H-1B visas allowing US businesses to hire foreign workers in science, engineering and computer programming totalled a record 233,000 for fiscal 2016, according to government figures released on Monday. A maximum of 85,000 of the work visas, including 20,000 for holders of master’s degrees, are available each year under limits set by Congress, despite years of heavy lobbying by tech companies to raise the cap. US Citizenship […]

What would you do if a complete stranger asked you for $100, or offered you an apple in a parking lot without explanation? These are only two of the 100 challenges Chinese-born, American-based Jia Jiang put himself up to when he decided to blog about “100 Days of Rejection”, a project he launched after he quit his comfortable six-figure job to follow his dreams of being an entrepreneur at the […]

US multinational companies are holding more than $2 trillion of their cash abroad, JP Morgan wrote in a recent report. Among the S&P 500, roughly $589 billion, or 63% of their total cash, was tied in foreign countries, it said. It makes sense for companies to leave their cash abroad because they would otherwise get taxed again on the money they bring into the US. One thing that sticks out […]

  All set to take up a home loan after due diligence and caparison of multiple quotes on interest rates and EMIs? Have you thought of comparing the miscellaneous and other lesser-known charges while comparing various home loan offers available to you? Many home loan borrowers often end up skipping these details. Prospective loan seekers many a time just use interest rate as the basic yardstick to compare various home […]