Fired employee’s ₹12 lakh severance sparks hunt for the ‘generous’ companyA Reddit post about a man receiving ₹12 lakh as severance after being fired sparked widespread curiosity, with users more interested in unc...
16 Jun, 2025, 04.48 PM IST
'Don't buy a Tesla': World's biggest Elon Musk protest with controversial sand image appearsA Tesla driver has staged the "world's biggest anti-Elon Musk protest" - a 250m long "Don't buy a Tesla" message raked into sand. The publi...
18 Mar, 2025, 09.55 PM IST
Is Marco Rubio's tenure as Secretary of State numbered? Reports say he has massive disagreements with Donald Trump and appears to be sidelinedDuring a recent national address, former President Donald Trump raised eyebrows by singling out Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a rather ...
11 Mar, 2025, 06.52 PM IST
Hyderabad professor catches students' prank, cute video goes viralA group of students at a college in Hyderabad attempted to play a prank on their professor, but their plan backfired spectacularly. A video...
24 Sep, 2024, 01.48 PM IST
Investors pour $27.1 billion into AI startups, defying a downturnInvestors poured $27.1 billion into AI startups in the United States from April to June, accounting for nearly half of all U.S. startup fun...
03 Jul, 2024, 04.48 PM IST
Meet Devika, India’s first AI engineer who can do it allDevika, India's AI engineer, competes with US's Devin using LLMs. It assists developers, plans to add multimodal features. Mufeed, a cybers...
05 Apr, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
How stand-up comedian Anmol Garg is hitting all the right notes with his brand of corporate comedyStand-up comedian, Corporate Babaji, LinkedIn influencer, entrepreneur - Anmol Garg wears many feathers on his hat but the thread that ties...
12 Sep, 2023, 07.24 AM IST
Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at MetaMark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, has declared that 2023 will be the "year of efficiency" at his company. So far, efficiency has translated into...
13 Apr, 2023, 08.13 AM IST
Buyers beware as "altcoin" frenzy bruises BitcoinAmong the major "altcoins" - as all cryptocurrencies aside from bitcoin are known - some such as ethereum aspire to be the backbone of a fu...
18 May, 2021, 09.59 PM IST
TikTok tug-of-war ensnares app’s affable billionaire founderThe reclusive founder has expressed his frustration with U.S. authorities to ByteDance employees. In an all-hands memo recently, Zhang said...
08 Aug, 2020, 09.48 AM IST
Trade war and censors blow chill wind through China's giant tech sceneNow the market is feeling the pinch. Hiring numbers are down, company margins are thinner and tumbling technology stocks have wiped nearly ...
13 Nov, 2018, 10.06 AM IST
TechM asks staff to speak up against discriminationTaking care so as not to see a repeat of a social media blow-up after an ex-employee complained on Twitter against IT firm’s Chief Diversit...
20 Sep, 2018, 10.05 AM IST
ESOPs made workers millionaires in the Valley, but it’s a complete failure in IndiaWhile Silicon Valley companies like Facebook Inc. and Google have created thousands of millionaires through stock option programs, the same...
14 Feb, 2018, 10.03 AM IST
Economic Times Startup Awards 2015: Why the dinner had to wait for half an hourThe five-course meal service had to wait for half an hour as some of India's top entrepreneurs were locked in handshakes and admiration.
20 Oct, 2015, 12.14 PM IST
The launch of this online platform GRIP could cause more problems for Google in EuropeTo wit, the platform aims to "offer victims of Google’s anti-competitive business practices in Europe a mechanism to evaluate their potenti...
02 Sep, 2015, 10.23 AM IST
- New location technologies worry privacy advocates
Mobile phones broadcast their location all the time. Marketers see it as a huge opportunity, but privacy advocates squirm at the implicatio...
17 Aug, 2008, 12.31 PM IST
- Work on emotional maturity
Remember Hari Sadu? The villainous boss in one of the job portals ad? What a joke! These days, even the most stressed or Type A.
11 Aug, 2007, 04.12 AM IST