With over 1.3 billion users, world’s largest social networking firm Facebook has enabled global economic impact of $227 billion (roughly Rs. 14,01,725 crores) and 4.5 million jobs around the world in 2014, according to a report by consultancy firm Deloitte. The report titled Facebook’s Global Economic Impact, analyses how Facebook’s marketing, platform and connectivity effects have facilitated growth and jobs around the world. Commissioned by Facebook, the study estimates […]

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 […]

Aviation website AirlineRatings.com has just released its annual list of the world’s 10 safest airlines. Once again, Australian airline Qantas grabs the top spot. “Qantas continues to lead the industry with safety innovations and its fleet is now the youngest — 7.9 years — it has been since the airline was privatized in 1995,” AirlineRatings.com editor Geoffrey Thomas tells CNN. He says the airline is an industry benchmark for best […]

Acquisitions, fundraisings, controversies, awards and recognitions were some major events witnessed in the startup ecosystem in 2014. As Flipkart’s Big Billion Day caught the eyes of many, the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi too made headlines. With around five international acquisitions this year, Zomato amazed us, at the same time Myntra’s acquisition by Flipkart caught many eyeballs. While InMobi was awarded the most outstanding startup of the year by Forbes India, […]

Tech entrepreneurs were busy in 2014, building startups and raising money for products that could make it big in 2015. While no one can predict the future, there are a handful of startups we are especially excited to watch in the coming year. This unscientific list, compiled by VentureBeat’s staff from their own reporting, is an eclectic list of startups that we think are especially promising. We did the same […]

Here’s some good news for entrepreneurs: You are wealthier than you think. Indeed, even if your top line revenues were to stay flat for the next few years, there are ways to make significant advances to your bottom line growth with some simple, if not occasionally controversial, concrete steps. Think about it for a moment. You can make yourself wealthier , beginning today, without working any harder, taking any additional […]

Flickr/NHS Confederation Patrick Soon-Shiong at an NHS Confederation conference. Imagine visiting the doctor’s office for a check-up and watching as the measurements from your blood pressure and heart rate appear instantaneously on a screen at the doctor’s desk. When the doctor comes in, instead of manually comparing your vitals with a chart pasted inside her notebook, she looks to the screen, where the computer has done the work for her, […]

Expert advice on how to establish self-sufficient food production, including guidance on crop rotations, raising livestock and grazing management. Your 1-acre homestead can be divided into land for raising livestock and a garden for raising fruits, vegetables, plus some grain and forage crops. Illustration by: Dorling Kindersley Everyone will have a different approach to keeping a self-sufficient homestead, and it’s unlikely that any two1-acre farms will follow the same plan […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has ridiculed Tim Cook’s comments on Facebook’s ad policy, which go on to state, “when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple, we believe a great customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.” Zuckerberg noted it frustrated him when people and experts from Lift & Shift : think that advertising business model is out of alignment […]

If Oracle’s current stock value is taken into account, the software giant is probably the highest payer at the IITs this placement season.  Going by Wednesday’s stock rates, the package Oracle has offered for overseas positions would come to Rs 1.83 crore a year, higher than that of Facebook which is around Rs 1.42 crore a year. Oracle has offered around 10 overseas positions to students in the IITs this […]