UpFront
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The invisible hand behind the Tokyo Olympics
The force behind the Olympic curtain is Dentsu, an advertising goliath with near mythical levels of power and influence in Japan
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Jeff Bezos launches to space, aiming to reignite his rocket company's ambitions
While Bezos was beaten to space last week by Richard Branson, who flew in a rocket plane from his company Virgin Galactic, some analysts consider Blue Origin, founded by Bezos more than 20 years ago, to be a more significant contender in the future space economy
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78,533 new companies registered in 2021 so far; Maharashtra leads: Covid-19 second wave fails to dampen new founders
It seems like Covid-19 didn't hamper India's entrepreneurial spirit—78,522 new companies were registered in India in the Jan-Jun period this year, higher than the same period in 2020 and 2019; Maharashtra saw the most number of new companies registered
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Meet Sanjal Gavande, Indian engineer at Blue Origin shepherding Jeff Bezos' flight to space
Hailing from Kalyan, near Mumbai, Gavande was rejected by NASA. But now she is part of the team at Blue Origin that is sending Earth's richest man into space
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Emerging job prospects in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors
Staying relevant and acquiring the right skills to tap into high value opportunities
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How China transformed into a prime cyber threat to the US
Hacks that were conducted via sloppily worded spearphishing emails by units of the People's Liberation Army are now carried out by an elite satellite network of contractors at front companies and universities
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How the Adani Group became India's largest airport operator
After becoming India's largest private port operator, the Gautam Adani-led Adani group has turned all its attention to its airport business, which it forayed into barely a year ago
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Coronavirus cluster overshadows run-up to Tokyo Olympics
The organisers of the Tokyo Olympics, delayed one year by the pandemic, are struggling to manage public anxiety about the Games after a cluster of coronavirus cases that threaten to overshadow the festivities
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Traceability would undermine end-to-end encryption: Ajit Mohan
The vice president and managing director of Facebook India on IT rules, traceability, Nick Clegg's view on it in the Indian context and the growth of short-form video formats
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From 1900 to 2016, India's Olympic games medal tally in numbers
India has tried its best to win medals at the Olympic games since winning 2 silver medals in 1900 while still under British rule. Dhyan Chand's golden era of hockey (1928-36), Abhinav Bindra's bull's eye (2008), and PV Sindhu's glistening silver (2016), check out India's Olympics journey in medals
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IPO Frenzy: Loss-making Indian tech startups are emulating their US counterparts, but that's not enough
From Zomato to Paytm, loss-making ventures are getting listed by opting for scale over profit in the short-term. Wooing investors on the premise of a promising future, however, needs to be backed an expanding topline and profitability in the long term