After a torrid period for Indian startup stocks which saw the values of listed companies erode over a period of more than two…
The list of global tech companies manufacturing their products in India continues to grow longer. India’s Dixon has partnered with Nokia to make…
Just around an hour ago, OpenAI released its o3 model. The model blew existing AI benchmarks out of the water, getting record scores…
All manner of multinational companies already have their presence in India, but India is now featuring ever more prominently in their plans. US-based…
Jobs and people have a love and hate relationship. You need them to earn your bread and live a respectable life, but at the same time, they can be your biggest enemies. Stress, lack of time for pursuing your passion, draconian office rules etc. can often make people hate their jobs. While the reason to hate a job is highly subjective, there are some common triggers or patterns that establish some of the most common ones. On a thread on social opinion website Reddit, people were asked why they hated their jobs, and these were the top reasons.
Twitter, the 140-character limit social networking website, next only to Facebook in popularity, doesn’t quit share Facebook’s revenue figures and has historically struggled…
Reliance is launching a 4G network and the 25,000+ employees would be the first one to try it. The company will have a soft launch for Jio on December 27th, where A.R. Rahman and Shahrukh Khan are slated to perform to the company’s 25,000+ employees and their families. The network will however be thrown open to the public only by mid next year.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has had a presence in India for two decades now. Having entered the country in December 2015, it now occupies thousands of feet of office space, employs thousands of people across diverse fields such as R&D and sales, and has a large imprint on India’s technical industry. It’s a good paymaster as well – a full 116 Samsung India employees drew salaries of over Rs. 1 crore per year. But there was a problem. 70% of these people were of Korean origin.
Venture Capital isn’t always the easiest form of investment. You take a bet on a small company with uncertain prospects. The company usually operates in a field that hasn’t been ventured into before, and there are few markers to tell you if it’ll succeed. And most don’t. Nearly 90% of startups fail, and Venture Capital firms are never able to recover their investments. But every once in a while, a startup succeeds. And when it does, the results can be astonishing.
Google being Google, world’s biggest tech giant, and a cash-rich company whose employee-friendly culture is universally celebrated and lauded does Christmas in style. Not only does Google go out in decking up its campuses around the globe and dissing up Christmas special fare to its 30,000 employees, it plays the biggest Santa every Christmas.
Google employees around the world get a gift, called the Holiday gift every year during Christmas. These are no ordinary gifts, a box of chocolates or a little gadget! We have a roundup of all the gifts Google’s showered on its employees.
You’ve been dreaming of finally leaving your corporate cubicle forever. Maybe it’s because you think your work is boring and repetitive. Maybe it’s because it eats into your personal life. Or maybe it’s because you’re truly passionate about something, and are willing to forego the comforts and perks of a normal job to follow your dreams.
As a part of the “People Who Quit Their Jobs To Do Something Amazing” series, we bring you another 11 enterprising people who did leave their corporate cubicles. Their motives were different – some have set up businesses, others have travelled, yet some others have tried to give back to society. But their underlying motives remain – they’ve turned their backs on a safe, conventional life and taken the plunge. And they’re all very happy with their life choices.
On-demand shuttle services had been seen by many as a way to ease India’s growing traffic and pollution problems. By operating on popular routes at peak hours, these services took cars off roads and also provided consumers a cheaper alternative to cab hailing companies. Over the last year, several startups emerged in the area, including ZipGo, RBus, and Shuttl, while cab hailing giant Ola had also thrown its hat into the ring, launching Ola Shuttle.
TinyOwl had closed its offices in Hyderbad, Pune, Gurgaon, Chennai and Hyderabad in dramatic circumstances in October, with a founder being held hostage in the Pune office for over 48 hours by the laid off employees. Now with all the offices lying vacant, TinyOwl’s founder has taken to Facebook to find new owners for them.
