Rahul Yadav is not one to stay out of the limelight for too long. Barely a fortnight after his dramatic ouster from Housing.com, and an intervening period when he tried to look for a girlfriend on Facebook, Rahul is back to doing what he does best. He’s announced a startup that will be bigger and better than Housing.com.
An animated monkey character that follows you from app to app, watches what you’re doing and suggests products that you might want to buy has been born!
India’s top three IT companies are grappling with high attrition rates. Employees at the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro and Infosys are jumping the ship at a rate faster than ever.
After regaling Indian consumers with their breathtaking discounts and services, Flipkart is now aiming to do the same for its employees. Just last week, the company had announced a benefits package for its pregnant employees that was amongst the most generous in the Indian corporate space. Now it has revealed that it will provide allowance and leave benefits to staff who adopt children.
49-year old Indian American Sunita Williams is among four astronauts who have been selected by NASA for commercial flights to the International Space Station from US soil. The other three are Robert Behnken, Eric Boe and Douglas Hurley.
A week after Housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav was asked to step down from his post, the board has found a replacement. Rishabh Gupta, a Housing employee for 2 years, has been appointed as interim CEO.
Facebook just made a subtle design change to its icons. Probably lost on the vast majority of its 1.4 billion users, the change is a big leap for gender equality and could profoundly influence perceptions of women. The tiny icons appearing in the upper right-hand corner of the social networking site have been subtly changed.
Team outings usually end with some laughs, greater understanding of your teammates, and making some new friends. That wasn’t the case when HSBC took its employees on a day out at Teamworks Karting track in Birmingham. Six employees were fired soon after for making an inappropriate video during the event.
Chinese stocks dived again on July 8, ignoring a battery of support measures from Beijing. As companies scrambled to have trading in their shares suspended, the People’s Bank of China said it was watching closely and would guard against systemic regional financial risks.