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Facebook is weaker than we knew
This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day ranging from user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia and the gradual attrition of talented colleagues
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What Koreans can teach Americans and Europeans on cracking India's auto market
Ford and Hyundai entered India at the same time, and as the first shuts shop in the country, the second has become hugely successful
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Meet the 2021 Nobel prize winner in Medicine
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian jointly won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries on receptors and temperature and touch that helps us understand, for the first time, our nerve impulses to heat, cold and mechanical force in our environment and how we adapt
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The world wants Greenland's minerals, but Greenlanders are wary
As global warming melts the ice that covers 80% of the island, it has spurred demand for Greenland's potentially abundant reserves of hard-to-find minerals with names like neodymium and dysprosium
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They helped build modern India but are shrinking as a race
The Parsi community's legacy is deeply intertwined with the rise of modern India and their dwindling numbers in part tell a tale of how orthodox religious rules have clashed with an early and rapid embrace of modern values
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World Habitat Day: India's power sector must lead coal phase-out
Even as individuals and communities in India innovate new systems to deliver solar power, use of coal, which is the climate emergency's single greatest driver, continues to increase in the country
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Our top reads of the week
From Girish Mathrubootham's vision for Freshworks, decadal shifts in corporate governance in India, and a masterclass on brand morality and activism from Philip Kotler, catch our best reads and listens
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Only 35% pass Wall Street's toughest test. How much does that matter?
The process of earning a CFA has always been gruelling with candidates expected to master 3,000 pages of material and demonstrate their ability to analyse companies' financial statements, forecast investment profits and manage conflicts of interest
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There's nothing to like in Facebook's plans to hook our kids
If Facebook is to be believed, the planned Instagram Kids app would include controls to ensure that the worst of Instagram is kept out in favour of an antiseptic version fit for children 12 and under
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International Coffee Day: India's coffee exports up over 25% in 2021; over 3% of the world's coffee is Indian
As the third-largest coffee producer and exporter of the bean in Asia, India accounted for 3.14% of the global coffee production in 2019-20
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How Asia, once a vaccination laggard, is revving up inoculations
South Korea, Japan and Malaysia have even pulled ahead of the US in the number of vaccine doses administered per 100 people