UpFront
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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
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Apple to Amazon, big tech pledges big money to Covid-19
The Big Five of the tech world have contributed over $1.25 bn to fight the coronavirus pandemic. A look at the money each of them has pledged and where it is going
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How a pandemic nudged Dettol, VLCC into new directions
Dettol, considered synonymous with hygiene, has seen increased demand in most of its product lines; VLCC says it is running on a treadmill to fulfil orders
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Covid-19 case curve across states, from Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu
A look at the coronavirus trajectory in different Indian states, mapped to see at a glance
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Remote work will diversify talent pool, include more women: Cisco India exec
Supporting those working from home at scale is as much about mindset change as about policies and processes
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To beat the virus, Colombia tries separating men and women
Colombia has about 3,000 of Latin America's cases, most of them concentrated in Bogotá. Some countries in the region have begun arresting quarantine-breakers. Others have instituted curfews. Colombia's capital is trying gender separation