• UPI growth: UPI growth 2.0: Efforts on to crack DBT code

    The Reserve Bank of India and banks are looking to get beneficiaries of the government's direct benefit transfer (DBT) schemes to do their routine transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform, in a bid to make more people transact digitally instead of cash.The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which runs UPI, is also onboarding district cooperative banks and rural cooperative banks onto the platform so that they can offer digital payment services to their customers,...

  • Hospital growth for HCB

    The HCB (Hospital Clinica Benidorm) continues its outstanding service, receiving the international health certificate for the second time in the hospital´s history. The accreditation from the Joint Commission International is the second most prestigious certificate in healthcare, which evaluates hospital efficiency on 1,200 different quality standards. To become accredited, hospitals must score at least 9.8 […]

  • Indonesia smartphone growth continues

    The smartphone market in Indonesia added strength to a recovery started in Q3 2023, recording double-digit growth across all price segments in the opening quarter of this year, data from IDC showed.

  • How rainfall affects plant growth

    WATKINS GLEN, NY (WETM) - Crop growth can be affected by rainfall amounts. Excess rain can hinder the oxygen to the soil, but during the flowering period, it can be helpful to fuel the plant in its growth. With higher excess in rain, disease becomes more likely for plants, along with many other issues. Fungal []

  • Russian economic growth accelerates in first quarter

    Russia’s economy expanded by 5.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, the Rosstat state statistics agency said Friday, as military spending on the Ukraine offensive boosts growth. That was an acceleration from a rate of 4.9 percent recorded in the final quarter of 2023.

  • Walmart's newest growth market? More affluent shoppers

    Revenue and earnings per share beat expectations, according to the company's latest quarterly earnings report out on Thursday.

  • Convatec on track to deliver organic revenue growth

    Medical products and technologies company Convatec Group has said it is on

  • International students are a growth strategy, not an immigration problem

    Higher education is an export worth more to the UK economy than tobacco. Rebranding international students as an immigration issue will do real damage to businesses, say Jamie Arrowsmith and John Foster Since 2019, this government has been quietly delivering one of the most successful strategic policies in recent memory. The target: to drive a []

  • Growth in the face of war: Building solar in Ukraine

    Despite Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia, the country’s solar sector continues to develop. Lena Dias Martins reports on the opportunities solar developers are finding amid the horrors of war.

  • 3 Steps to Prime Your Brain for a Growth Mindset

    Take these three steps to cultivate a growth mindset and enhance your happiness and success.

  • Bumble says it's looking to M&A to drive growth

    Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Metro mayors need more power to deliver growth

    Sadiq Khan has been reelected for a third term as mayor, but if he's to get London firing on all cylinders we need more fiscal devolution