Usually, when people at companies don’t perform up to the company’s expectations, they have a word with their managers. In protracted cases of under-performance, they’re made to undergo a performance improvement plan. Worst case, they’re fired.
However, a bank in China has its way of dealing with delinquent employees.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Softbank President Nikesh Arora is stepping down from his post. A few hours ago, he had been given a clean chit in a probe into alleged foul play in the firm’s investments in Indian start-ups Oyo Rooms and Housing.com.
As Flipkart’s top leadership has left the company, the products that they’d developed seem to have gone with them. Flipkart has decided that it will be retiring Ping, its social chat feature, and its image search function, two products that it had launched amidst much fanfare last year.
Apple CEO Tim Cook had returned disappointed after his India visit last month, when days after his whirlwind trip it had emerged that Apple…
In an increasingly competitive job market, getting noticed is the first hard step towards employment. While most people bank on the content in their resume, and a fair bit of luck to get that coveted job, some make the resume itself the focal selling point.
20 year old Sumukh Mehta is one such enterprising graduate. After graduating from the College Of Management Studies, Jain University, Bangalore, Mehta was on a hunt and wanted to be hired in the media field. He hit upon the genius idea of applying to fashion magazine GQ by making his resume in the style of the magazine itself.
Festivals and special days are becoming an opportunity for Indian brands to not only showcase their quirky, innovate side but also integrate their product into the campaign. While many companies, especially startups, post a message or do an ad, some go all out and pull off elaborate campaigns to celebrate the occasion day. Fathers’ Day celebrated on June 19th, has also become a festival that warrants those campaigns.
We did a round up of the best of Fathers’ day campaigns this year.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has ended speculation over his 2nd term as governor by saying that he will return to academia when his current term ends. He will return to his teaching job at the University of Chicago after spending 3 years as RBI governor.
Flight cadets Avani Chaturvedi, Mohana Singh and Bhawana Kanth have created history by becoming the first women fighter pilots commissioned in the Indian Air Force (IAF)
Fresh off its Linkedin acquisition announcement, Microsoft has announced that it is partnering with a cannabis industry-focused software company called KIND Financial. The company provides “seed to sale” services for cannabis growers, allowing them to track inventory, navigate laws and handle transactions all through Kind’s software systems.