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Hong Kong approves first bitcoin, ethereum spot ETFs
The step comes just three months after the U.S. launched the first...
India’s passenger EV market will hot up in next 3-4 years
Now with reports of Tesla's entry in the Indian market, and its CEO...
Microsoft launches AI digital labs in India, to train 1.5 lakh students
“As AI becomes mainstream, organisations will require talent with skill sets that are very different from what exist now. Educators and institutions are integral to the skilling revolution taking root in the country,” Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari said.
UK’s Legal & General Partners with Amazon to Create Blockchain System for Pensions
Blockchain suits “the long-term nature of annuities business as it allows data and transactions to be signed, recorded and maintained in a permanent and secure nature over the lifetime of these contracts, which can span over 50 years,” Thomas Olunloyo, CEO of Legal & General Reinsurance said.
Motorbike Taxi Firms to Offer E-payment, Insurance Services in West Africa
As in Asia, the companies are also looking to turn their ride-hailing apps into one-stop mobile shops offering a host of services from e-payments to deliveries to insurance – the kind of strategy that transformed Indonesia’s Go-Jek into a $10 billion company in less than a decade.
Indian Millennials prefer buying larger Health Cover:Policybazaar
The latest trend of shifting preference towards buying policies with higher sum insured is in sharp contrast to the millennial buying trends five years back, when Rs. 3 lakhs and 2 lakhs were the most sought after health cover marks.
Now weather forecasters shield India Inc from rainy days
According to Noida-headquartered Skymet Weather Services’ Founder and Managing Director Jatin Singh: “The business has gained traction in India as insurance, banking, agribusiness, commodity traders, retail and e-commerce, transportation and government institutions have become our clients over the years.
“We are India’s largest crop insurance settlement agency.”
In historic first, G20 weighs aging as global risk
Longer life-expectancy and sliding birth rates, particularly among wealthy nations, have resulted in a rapid expansion of the elderly population in places like Spain, Italy and South Korea, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
How Internet may be changing your brain
The research, published in the journal World Psychiatry, found the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in specific areas of cognition, which may reflect changes in the brain
Draft law proposes 10-year jail term for dealing in cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and is generally based on blockchain technology, a distributed ledger enforced by a disparate network of computers. Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency in the world.
India may have 88 million 5G connections by 2025: GSMA
Global telecom industry body GSMA said that a recent survey of global mobile data pricing highlighted that India was the cheapest market among over 200 countries surveyed in the final quarter of 2018.
Google faces privacy complaints in France, Germany, 7 other EU countries
The ruling by the EU court, expected in a few months, will help clarify to what extent social media companies such as Facebook must police posts by billions of users worldwide. The Luxembourg-based court follows the advice of its advocates general in a majority of cases.