UpFront
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Three new faces to help steer the Gates Foundation
For the first time ever, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be governed by a board that includes people who are not named Gates or Buffett
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As Bitcoin tumbles, IMF urges El Salvador to end its crypto embrace
The price of Bitcoin has fallen more than 50% from its peak in November, and the cryptocurrency market as a whole has lost more than $1 trillion in value over that time
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Storyboard18 - Live commerce and the rise of shopatainment
Live commerce can make shopping exciting and immersive, allowing brands to have deeper engagement with users. Integrating innovations could change shopping online from an activity to a form of entertainment for digital natives and newbies
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David, Goliath & the Unicorn: How Darwinbox got its HR box seat
From being a pariah to becoming a darling of the big enterprises, India's newly-minted unicorn Darwinbox took on big daddies of enterprise software—SAP and Oracle—to disrupt the HR tech space
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Rich countries lure health workers from low-income nations to fight shortages
The urgency and strong pull from high-income nations has upended migration patterns and raised new questions about the ethics of recruitment from countries with weak health systems during a pandemic
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War may loom, but are there off-ramps?
As in all conflicts with roots in the Cold War and its aftermath, the subtext of any negotiation includes how the world's two largest nuclear-armed states manage their arsenals—and use them for leverage
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China's Games: How Xi Jinping is staging the Olympics on his terms
China no longer needs to prove its standing on the world stage; instead, it wants to proclaim the sweeping vision of a more prosperous, more confident nation under Xi, the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong
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What makes quitting so contagious?
Quitting begets more quitting, a challenge that employers cannot always solve with raises or perks
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From Byju-Aakash to PharmEasy-Thyrocare: Top 10 startup acquisitions of 2021 in India
India's startup ecosystem saw more than 250 acquisitions in 2021 with some of the largest deals including PayU-BillDesk acquisition for $4.7 bn, Tata-BigBasket for $1.2 bn, among others
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Inside TCS's cloud strategy: How the IT giant is consolidating its hyperscaler alliances to tap an 'unbounded opportunity'
CEO Rajesh Gopinathan is sharpening TCS's focus on partnerships with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google, deploying an army of engineers to transport some of the world's biggest companies to the era of ecosystems
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'It's all just wild': Tech startups reach a new peak of froth
The funding frenzy follows nearly two years of a pandemic when people and businesses increasingly relied on tech, creating bottomless opportunities for startups to exploit