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...
Li Auto, Nio, and BYD are all pursuing different paths in China's EV market, the world's largest.
Arkose Labs, the global leader in bot management and account security, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024, ranking in the top 10 for the security category. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240319698533/en/ Arkose Labs ranks as a top 10 security
NEW YORK >> The internal furor over NBC News’ decision to hire former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor spread today, with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosts saying on the air that they strongly objected and wouldn’t have her on their show.
The European Union opened new investigations into U.S. companies Apple, Google, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act, which took full effect just earlier this month. The law, designed to supposedly “increase competition” and establish “fair” competition in the EU’s markets, is doing the opposite. It unfairly targets American tech companies, designates them as “gatekeeper” […]
The U.S. Justice Department and 16 state attorneys general, including California's, filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, alleging that the technology giant attempted to monopolize the smartphone market to boost its business. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, alleges that Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple violated antitrust laws by engaging in practices that were intended to keep consumers dependent on the iPhone, which for years has been the...
Entergy may have lost in court last week, but between an earlier settlement and regulatory rules about legal fees, the decision isn't actually much of a "win" for customers.
Despite splashy climate pledges, firms including BP and Saudi Aramco have plans to expand fossil fuel production, says analysisIn recent years, virtually all of the world’s largest oil companies have made splashy climate pledges. But when it comes to actually slashing emissions, those firms are “way off track”, a new report has found.The analysis from the thinktank Carbon Tracker assessed the production and transition plans of 25 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies. None align with the...
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An excerpt from ‘Lilliput Land: How Small is Driving India’s Mega Consumption Story’, by Rama Bijapurkar.
Geraint Jones, chief financial officer at Admiral Group, takes a trip down memory lane to tell us about his career, from exercise tech to insurance.
Want more stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the free, daily ResiClub newsletter. According to the Freddie Mac House Price Index, U.S. home prices rose 0.1% during the seasonally soft window from December 2023 to January 2024. On a year-over-year basis, U.S. home prices rose 6.1% between January 2023 and January 2024. National house prices as measured by Freddie Mac ended January 2024 up 1.6% above the 2022 summer peak, and 42.6% above March 2020 levels. ...