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Storyboard18 - What happens when brands become spammers?
Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), real estate and telecom are the traditional culprits who have encouraged and sustained bad practices, giving telemarketing a bad name
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Why this could be a critical year for electric cars
While electric vehicles still account for a small slice of the market, their rapid growth could make 2022 the year when the march of battery-powered cars became unstoppable, erasing any doubt that the internal combustion engine is lurching toward obsolescence
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J&J pauses production of its Covid-19 vaccine despite persistent need
Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine, initially billed as a single shot, fell out of favour in the US and other wealthy countries in part because of its link to a rare but dangerous blood-clotting disorder
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RBI monetary policy: Too much at stake
In the backdrop of rising inflation and global central banks' liquidity tightening, calls for the RBI to act similarly and start raising interest rates have grown. Meanwhile, India's pace of growth post-pandemic remains patchy. All these, and an aggressive government borrowing programme have raised bond market concerns further
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Storyboard18 - TikTok is one of world's biggest recipe platforms: Nestle's global CMO, Aude Gandon
Nestle is exploring new marketing avenues as the pandemic changed platforms' demographics. Read Gandon's views on building future-fit brands, emerging platforms and trends, Maggi—the pandemic hero brand, Japan's KitKat smorgasbord, and more
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Humid heat cost India 259 billion labour hours from 2001 to 2020
Here's a look at the top 10 most affected countries and the number of hours of labour lost owing to humid heat between 2001 and 2020
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The pandemic has made many seniors less active
Many health experts are worried about worsening physical conditioning and mobility among older adults since Covid-19 upended the daily routine
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Home interiors startup Livspace turns unicorn
Series F round sees $180 million from KKR, but comes as the company struggles with execution issues
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They made millions on Luna, Solana and Polygon: Crypto's boom beyond Bitcoin
You have probably heard of Bitcoin, Ether and even Dogecoin millionaires. But over the past two years, their ranks have rapidly expanded, as speculators recorded huge profits from more obscure cryptocurrency projects, some with names that sound cribbed from a children's cartoon
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How Micro Labs struck gold with Dolo-650 during Covid-19
The company has sold 350 crore tablets since the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020, and earned revenues of Rs 400 crore in a year
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Beijing wanted the Winter Olympics. All it needed was snow
The competitions that began this weekend are for the first time taking place almost entirely on artificial snow, necessitating an Olympic snow-making and water-management operation of enormous scale, and foreshadowing the reality of snow sports everywhere as the planet warms