UpFront
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Remembering Lou Ottens, the inventor of audio cassettes and compact discs
The first cassette was showcased at an electronics fair in 1963, and over 100 billion have been sold since then. Ottens was 94
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Sports (NBA superstar's evolution from high school prodigy), Parenting (How to apologize to your kids), Philosophy ('A reckoning for our species') and Environment (Race to scale up green hydrogen).
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Making workplaces safer for women: Why companies can do better
Inadequate compliance of the PoSH law, poor data collection, cultural biases, and fresh challenges in tackling sexual harassment posed by the pandemic indicate that employers still have a long way to go toward safeguarding the female workforce
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What are NFTs, anyway? One just sold for $69 million
NFTs or "nonfungible tokens," have taken the art market by storm, making the leap from specialist websites to premier auction houses
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China's jaded techies find a hero in Elon Musk
The Tesla boss and digital prankster is striking a chord, at a time of disillusionment with the tech industry and its leading tycoons.
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The Olympic journey towards gender equality
More than a century after women first competed at the Olympic games, female athlete numbers will finally be bordering at parity with those of men at Tokyo 2020
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Girish Mathrubootham's billion-dollar dream for Freshworks
The entrepreneur is taking cue from rapid growth of Silicon Valley software startups to reach scale and velocity
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Mexico set to legalize marijuana, becoming world's largest market
If enacted, Mexico would join Canada and Uruguay in a small but growing list of countries that have legalized marijuana in the Americas, adding further momentum to the legalization movement in the region
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Bitcoin's climate problem
The annual carbon emissions from the electricity required to mine Bitcoin and process its transactions are equal to the amount emitted by all of New Zealand. Or Argentina
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Nitin Rakesh: 8 principles for companies to follow in post pandemic world
The book 'Transformation In Times of Crisis' by Nitin Rakesh, CEO of Mphasis and Professor Jerry Wind, who taught at Wharton School, delves upon how enterprises are rewiring themselves and adapting to the new normal to survive. The book outlines key eight principles which include agility, mental models, digital transformation, tapping open talent resources, among other ideas. The book prods companies to ask themselves to build their new strategy for the new normal
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Burger, King and the Crown
How Burger King became the fastest-growing QSR brand in India, but can it flip the Big Mac?