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Embracing 2025: Year of Purpose & Opportunities
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Internet and smartphones are damaging wellbeing of people: Study
Abdullah Al-Rashid, Director of Ithra’s Digital wellbeing program says: “As an organisation dedicated to individual enrichment, we at Ithra want to understand the cultural impacts of mankind’s growing reliance on the internet and social media. Unfortunately, our research shows that half of all people believe over-reliance on these platforms is damaging their wellbeing. This is why we are launching Sync – a new initiative designed to raise awareness about digital wellbeing, support novel research in partnership with global entities, and unite thought leaders globally to find new ways to protect the public.”
FADA warns of lacklustre festive season for passenger vehicles due to semiconductor shortage
”Auto dealers are facing the most challenging phase of their business career as COVID-19 after-effect continues to play spoil-sport. Until last year, when demand was a challenge, supply is becoming a bigger problem currently due to shortage of semiconductors, even though there is high demand for passenger vehicles,” FADA President Vinkesh Gulati said in a statement.
Global re/insurance market to grow by 3% by 2023, Cyber, data analytics & AI key growth areas: Munich Re
“The digitalisation megatrend will radically change traditional insurance. It will give rise to new fields of risk in need of insurance solutions. With its numerous digital and innovation projects, Munich Re has laid the foundations for profitable growth going forward”, says Munich Re’s Board member Torsten Jeworrek.
Munich Re has kept the rising ransomware losses in its book of business readily manageable. In addition, price increases in a hardening market environment are producing a stabilising effect. Munich Re is adhering to its plan to grow profitably based on a current market share of roughly 10%.
LIC deploys IDBI Intech’s Anti Money Laundering solution
IDBI Intech has made steady investments in the latest industry solutions for the BFSI sector, with cutting-edge technology, customer satisfaction and market demands as top priorities. The next generation technologies currently being leveraged include Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Automakers expect better festive season even as chip shortage lingers on
“While we compare with last year, it looks positive this year. But when you compare it to the peak of 2017-19, then we are still 22-23 per cent off that peak so I think we would have to be very careful in saying whether the market situation is better. It looks better than last year but when you compare it with the peak in 2017-19, we are way off, Srivastava noted.
VW CEO says smart cars, not e-cars, are ‘gamechanger’
“Autonomous driving is really going to change our industry like nothing else before,” Diess said in Munich ahead of the official opening of the IAA car show, adding the shift towards electrified cars was “kind of easy” in comparison.
‘Hiving off insurance biz to reinforce focus on core activity in battery segment’:Exide
Google says firmly sees itself as partner to India’s financial ecosystem
According to Google, several of its offerings are built on top of NPCI’s pioneering UPI payment network and infrastructure, “which has grown over 190X in the last 4 years, to processing over INR 6 trillion in value today”.
OneWeb signs unveils insurance programme for its satellites
Marsh arranged a multi-launch insurance programme covering physical loss or damage to the remaining GEN 1 satellites and launch vehicles with a global panel of leading specialist insurers. The insurance programme underpins the next stage in the development of OneWeb’s global communications capabilities.
Maruti to recall over 180,000 vehicles to replace faulty electrical part
As a responsible corporate, keeping in mind customer safety, the company has announced to proactively undertake a recall of some petrol variants of Ciaz, Ertiga, Vitara Brezza, S-Cross and XL6, MSI said in a regulatory filing.This is to inspect for a possible defect in 181,754 units of these models manufactured between May 4, 2018 to October 27, 2020. In the interest of customers, Maruti Suzuki has decided to voluntarily recall the affected vehicles for inspection/replacement of Motor Generator Unit, free of cost,” said the company.