Kolkata: India’s booming ecommerce market is spurring a packaging makeover among consumer goods makers, as they chase the growing number of online shoppers. Companies are seeking to make their products more robust to survive the rigours of shipping, with some saying they have already seen results, in the form of fewer returns.ITC, for instance, changed the cap of shower gels to prevent leakage even when there is no scotch tape. This is one among changes in the packaging design for most of its...
An excerpt from ‘Lilliput Land: How Small is Driving India’s Mega Consumption Story’, by Rama Bijapurkar.
Commercial property professional Kura Chihota from eXp South Africa is the guest on Moneyweb’s milestone 100th episode of The Property Pod, which goes regional this week, as we look at what’s bubbling in the Zimbabwe and broader SADC real estate markets.
Want more stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the free, daily ResiClub newsletter. Housing inventory levels in Florida are up the most in the nation on a year-over-year basis (34%), but the bulk of the increase is really concentrated in sections of Southwest Florida. In particular, in markets like Cape Coral and Fort Myers, which were hard-hit by Hurricane Ian in September 2022. Hurricane Ian left behind thousands of damaged homes, and the subsequent need for...
The people purchasing stock of the Trump Media and Technology Group are likely buying shares out of loyalty to the former president rather than faith in it as a good long-term investment, argues the University of Florida's Jay Ritter.
The American medical missionary lived in India at a time when tribulations followed women from birth.
India’s technology professionals are emerging to be the ‘front-office’ of the world's artificial intelligence (AI) revolution by reskilling themselves with AI-native skills, Jensen Huang, chief executive, Nvidia said.“India has the largest population of IT professionals, there is no question they will be reskilled for AI,” Huang said.“When I speak with the leaders in India, it is clear to them this is one of the greatest opportunities for them (India’s engineers) to reskill themselves and...
Gething, 50, elected head of Welsh Labour after Mark Drakeford resigns as first minister
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The Competition Commission of India said that it prima facie finds merit in the allegations levelled by app developers and media industry bodies against Google Play's new billing policy and has ordered probe into the same.
The government and RBI also expect growth around 7%, while other agencies
The husband-wife duo of Ruchi Sanghvi and Aditya Agarwal have held top jobs at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies. While Sanghvi is known for being the first woman engineer at Facebook, Agarwal was chief technology officer at file-sharing company Dropbox till 2018. Sanghvi went on to launch South Park Commons (SPC), named after a San Francisco neighbourhood, in 2016 as a collective of engineers, founders and researchers. Since then, SPC has grown from being a learning group to a...