UpFront
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The Wizard of Oz: Can Australian edtech major Matific get its maths right in the land of Byju's?
Matific, with its AI-driven learning process and an immersive and gamified environment, has over 1,000 schools in India on its platform
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Evolve or perish may be the only mantra for Indian FinTech
What are the best practices and performance standards that FinTechs must adhere to while embracing digital transformation to remain competitive?
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Omicron-fuelled booster drive may hurt access to first shots in poor countries—again
Worldwide, about 73% of shots that have gone into arms have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries, according to the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford. Only 0.8% of doses have been administered in low-income countries
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Amazon fined $1.3 billion over antitrust violations in Italy
The Italian regulator's decision is one of the first instances of a regulator investigating how the ecommerce giant uses the combination of its vast logistics network and online marketplace to gain an advantage over competitors
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India 'a poor and very unequal country, with an affluent elite': Inequality report 2022
The World Inequality Report 2022 authored by Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman highlights inequalities in global wealth, income, gender and ecology—and where India stands in the mix. We bring you the key numbers
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Long lines, brawls, a cottage industry: Inside the mad scramble for video game consoles
Long lines outside retail stores devolving into brawls, desperate shoppers refreshing websites in a bid to outrace the bots and a cottage industry of people trading tips and making money in the process—is the state of the video game console market a year after a new generation of widely coveted devices was released during the height of the pandemic
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Meet the black women making waves in hair care
Black-owned hair care companies are growing, increasing their market share to $2.5 billion in 2021, spawning waves of Black female hair care enthusiasts with business acumen
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How to tame the elephant in the economy
The RBI expects inflation to peak by the quarter ending March, but that may depend on a clutch of imponderables
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MacKenzie Scott most powerful woman in 2021 on Forbes list; Nirmala Sitharaman on rank 37
Take a look at the top 5 most powerful women in the world on the Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women list. Five Indian women also made it to the list—find out who they are
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UAE changes to work week in a nod to global business
Moving the weekend from Friday and Saturday to Saturday and Sunday shows, experts say, just how ready the UAE is to forgo tradition in order to attract foreign investment and talent
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The diplomatic boycott shadowing 2022 Beijing Olympics
Joe Biden and US diplomats, New Zealand and Australian diplomats are all staying home while Vladimir Putin may attend the 24th Winter Olympics in Beijing which is due to open in less than two months—the diplomatic sit-out intends to protest China's repressive policies