UpFront
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Virtual dating is the new normal. Will it work?
Virtual dating platforms are quickly pivoting to help quarantined singles. But the jury is still out on whether these new initiatives will change dating culture for good
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Covid-19 FAQs: When will sports come back?
Sports leagues face large, but not insurmountable, obstacles to even getting games back on television. Here's what needs to happen first
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Lost diaries of war emerge, more relevant than ever today
Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today
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YouTube star Nikunj Lotia's long road to success
From modest beginnings in Mumbai's Dombivli, Lotia now has millions of followers on his YouTube channel Be YouNick, and a fledgling food business in San Francisco. His sights are now set on Hollywood
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Economy (Three economists on way ahead for India), Online Gaming (Dark side of the online gaming business in India), Technology (Covid-19 is great news for Big Tech; Who is winning the technology battle between the US and China?) and Lifestyle (Importance of stillness in our life)
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All IT is acquiring cloud computing characteristics: HPE India MD
The longer-term trend that will emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown will be that company tech, regardless of location and ownership, will work on the lines of on-demand supply, consumption-based pricing and ease of use, says Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Som Satsangi
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Boeing to restart production in Washington with 27,000 workers
The announcement is the first attempt at large-scale resumption of business activity by a U.S. corporation since the coronavirus outbreak forced companies and government officials to shut down most nonessential work
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Dishum Dishum: Dettol and Lifebuoy to fight new rivals
The otherwise staid antiseptic category is heating up, as Emami and Marico make a big-bang entry in hand sanitisers, with BoroPlus and Mediker respectively
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Lessons from Alibaba, previously hit by SARS, on handling a pandemic
The Chinese ecommerce giant has put together a handbook for entrepreneurs with takeaways from when the group had to quarantine its employees back in 2003—and how CEOs should handle the crisis
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RBI lowers reverse repo rate to incentivise banks to lend more
Central bank governor Shaktikanta Das announces liquidity boost for NBFCs, housing finance and micro-financiers, to tide through the Covid-19 crisis
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China's economy shrinks, just when the world needs its punch
Chinese officials said Friday that the world's second-largest economy had shrunk in the first three months of the year, ending a streak of untrammeled growth that survived the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the SARS epidemic and even the global financial crisis