UpFront
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Why Wall Street cheers China, despite growing business unease
Xi Jinping, China's top leader, is ushering the country into an uncertain era and the party's rule is tighter and more authoritarian than before
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From Mukesh Ambani to Kumar Birla, here's a look at the top 10 richest Indians
As Savitri Jindal of O.P. Jindal Group and Kumar Birla of Aditya Birla Group found their way into the top 10, Hinduja Brothers, and the Godrej Family slipped out
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Will Page: What the music industry can teach you about pivoting in the digital age
"What we learn from the music business tells us so much more about who we really are, than other media industries; music is important not only because it was first to suffer and first to recover, but because it was the first to discover who we really are," says Will Page, formerly the chief economist at audio streaming company Spotify. In his book 'Tarzan Economics', Page takes a leaf or two from the music industry to explain how lessons from there can be used by anyone to disrupt an industry. The book talks about eight principles to pivot through disruption
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Online video consumption in India set to explode by 2025: Bain Report
Presently India lags behind its global peers like China and the US in the usage and penetration of short and long form videos. But that indicates that there is massive headroom for growth
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Knowledge, wisdom and Vedantu: How live online tutoring classes propelled the edtech company into the $1-billion club
In 2017, Vamsi Krishna and his friends had a runway of just three months...four years later, their edtech venture turns unicorn. Find out how
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For sale now: US-supplied weapons in Afghan gun shops
Over the years, the United States provided the Afghan military with a huge array of arms and vehicles, including M4 carbines, rockets, A-29 light attack aircraft, Humvees, and copious ammunition for assault rifles and machine guns
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The end of a 'gilded age': China is bringing business to heel
Where once executives had a green light to grow at any cost, officials now want to dictate which industries boom, which ones bust and how it happens
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Meet the joint winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics 2021
Three Laureates share this year's prize for ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems
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A 'pacemaker for the brain': No treatment helped her depression—until this
Deep brain stimulation is used to treat Parkinson's disease and several other disorders, but isn't approved by federal regulators for depression because results have been inconsistent
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Facebook is weaker than we knew
This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day ranging from user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia and the gradual attrition of talented colleagues
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What Koreans can teach Americans and Europeans on cracking India's auto market
Ford and Hyundai entered India at the same time, and as the first shuts shop in the country, the second has become hugely successful