UpFront
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Real estate: Still a land of plenty?
Your need for and use of the physical spaces you had grown accustomed to have either changed or been eliminated, at least for now, amid the pandemic. This in turn has billion-dollar implications for the industry that builds and leases out such spaces: real estate
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Can FamPay slay it in India's fintech space?
The neo-banking startup for teenagers has whipped up excitement among users and VCs, but can navigating the regulated fintech ecosystem be child's play?
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A pill to treat Covid-19? The U.S. is betting on it
If all goes well, some of those first pills could be ready by the end of the year
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Why American women everywhere are delaying motherhood
A major reason women are able to be more intentional about when to have children is better access to birth control
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Productivity (From John Steinbeck to Maya Angelou all swore by this weird productivity trick), Investing (Guy Fieri Theory of Investing in the Internet Age; Don't call bitcoin a bubble), Technology (Facebook is a doomsday machine?), Management (Engineering a culture of psychological safety) and Covid (Meet the group giving virus-origin theories a DRASTIC reality check
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Can the future of ecommerce be beyond home deliveries? This Polish parcel king bets on it
Five years ago, Rafał Brzoska was on the brink of bankruptcy. Now, his bet has made him into a billionaire
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Over Rs 20,700 crore: That's how much money Indians have stowed in Swiss banks
In 2020, Indians parked 2.55 billion Swiss francs or Rs 20,700 crore in Swiss banks, up from 899 million in 2019. Here's an approximate breakup of the holdings
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Knocking at the door of stagflation or merely a few quarters of rising inflation?
Every household in India has been paying more for groceries over the last year. In May, India's retail inflation rose sharply to 6.3 percent on a year-on-year basis and breached RBI's 4 percent threshold
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The Maldives lured tourists back. Now it needs nurses
Though 59% of the population has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, the recent surge took a heavy toll with nearly half of the country's 200 Covid-19 deaths being reported in May
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He warned Apple about the risks in China. Then they became reality
In recent years, China shut down Marriott's website after it listed Tibet and Taiwan as separate countries in a customer survey while it also suspended sign-ups to LinkedIn after the site failed to censor enough political content
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Vaccine delivery, the drone way
While the Centre has invited an expression of interest for unmanned aerial vehicles, a few state governments are also set to start trials with UAVs for supply of medical supplies and vaccines to remote areas