Banks wary of credit on UPI by fintechs; layoffs at edtech unicorn Physics WallahIndian fintechs are eyeing credit lines on UPI as their next big growth opportunity but banks want to put the brakes on the growth of unsec...
20 Nov, 2023, 08.57 AM IST
AI startups bringing dollars but lean workforces to ailing San FranciscoUnlike past tech booms that have touched San Francisco, the generative AI craze brings fewer jobs, because AI firms excel at staying lean a...
13 Jul, 2023, 03.39 PM IST
Online hospitality major Airbnb lays off 30% of recruiting staffDuring the company's quarterly earnings call last month, chief financial officer Dave Stephenson said it is going to hire more people.
04 Mar, 2023, 11.07 AM IST
Tech layoffs shock young workers, but not older onesTech’s generational divide is representative of a broader phenomenon. The year someone is born has a big influence on views about work and ...
21 Jan, 2023, 11.47 PM IST
Tech layoffs shock young workers. The older people? Not so muchMicrosoft said this week it planned to cut 10,000 jobs, or roughly 5% of its workforce. And Friday morning, Google's parent company Alphabe...
21 Jan, 2023, 05.40 PM IST
Startups mushroom from the ashes of Big Tech purge in USWhile overall venture capital (VC) financing fell 33% globally to about $483 billion in 2022, early-stage funding was robust, with $37.4 bi...
03 Jan, 2023, 01.32 PM IST
The humbling of CoinbaseCoinbase has grown from a plucky startup to a publicly traded company, but its status as an industry leader has been threatened by a series...
06 Aug, 2022, 05.01 PM IST
Facebook's India problem; Groww valuation triples to $3BA series of damning reports on Friday and Saturday, based on internal company documents, showed that Facebook is aware its platforms are us...
25 Oct, 2021, 07.23 AM IST
View: Why you might not be returning to the office until next yearIn the nearly 18 months since the pandemic first forced companies to send their employees to work from home, the date companies have planne...
08 Sep, 2021, 10.27 AM IST
Uber is reducing workforce by 14% and signals more cuts to comeUber instituted a hiring freeze in March, withdrew its financial forecast and wrote down some $2 billion worth of investments in April and ...
07 May, 2020, 09.04 AM IST
Masayoshi Son’s real estate bet has some big problemsThe shortfall signals more trouble ahead for SoftBank and one of its most highly touted investments.
17 Feb, 2020, 07.05 PM IST
Your employer could be snooping on you, in office and outsideThere are devices that can eavesdrop on meetings and water cooler conversations to collect and mine data and suggest ways to improve produc...
07 May, 2018, 04.34 PM IST
How artificial intelligence is reshaping recruitment, and what it means for the future of jobsThe recruitment industry is undergoing a big transformation, and artificial intelligence has been one of the biggest drivers behind this ch...
08 Oct, 2017, 01.28 PM IST
Uber diversity recruiting hampered by lack of leadership, fundsThe recruiting arm assigns some members to focus on hiring diverse candidates, an initiative that has received enthusiastic endorsements fr...
25 Mar, 2017, 11.23 AM IST
Uber-like bad behavior thrives in absence of human resourcesUber Technologies now joins a growing list of Silicon Valley companies that seem unable – or unwilling – to address bad behavior in the wor...
28 Feb, 2017, 10.20 AM IST
Anjali Bansal named as MD of TPG GrowthAnjali Bansal will soon join TPG Growth as managing director and partner in India, alongside Vish Narain, who also holds the same designati...
28 Jul, 2015, 05.50 AM IST
How social media is becoming a way to spur transparency at workplaceWhen most companies are blocking employee access to social media networks, a few are going the other extreme.
30 Jun, 2015, 08.03 AM IST