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Google’s court loss to Epic Games may cost billions but final outcome years away
Epic Games will now have a chance to submit a court filing on how it wants Google’s Play Store to be fixed — potentially putting at risk what Wells Fargo estimates is $10 billion in annual revenue from app sales and in-app purchases for the tech giant Google’s...
Mutual funds’ SIP collection soars to Rs 1.66 lakh cr in 2023; lower ticket size to push inflow
Earlier this month, Sebi Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch said the regulator is working with mutual funds to make SIPs of Rs 250 viable for the general public, leading to increased investments Investors are placing significant bets on systematic investment plans, or...
Road crash deaths down by 5% globally, numbers in India continue to rise: WHO
Nine in 10 deaths occurred in low and middle-income countries, and fatalities in these countries are disproportionately higher when set against the number of vehicles and roads they have New Delhi: Thirty-five more countries made notable progress, reducing the deaths...
India’s doctor-population ratio 1:834: Minister
According to the National Medical Commission (NMC), there are 13,08,009 allopathic doctors registered with the State Medical Councils and the National Medical Commission (NMC) as on June, 2022, Pravin Pawar said in a written reply New Delhi: India's doctor-population...
Key risk trends for Directors and Officers in 2024: Allianz
Insolvencies are rising, geopolitical uncertainty is considerable, cyber risk is elevated, and ESG claims are here to stay and proving challenging. D&Os need to be prepared for these headwinds and have a strategy that can adapt when presented with a block to the...
Reinsurer Scor made aware of attempted fraud
“Scor urges you to be extremely vigilant and not to respond without prior verification to any payment request made by email, telephone or social networks. The aim of these fraudsters is to improperly collect personal data or to solicit a bank transfer or electronic...
ACKO appoints Aravind Sampathkumaran as senior vice president, Core Products
ACKO has appointed Aravind Sampathkumaran as Senior Vice President, Core Products. With over 20 years of extensive experience in product management, Aravind brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to further strengthen ACKO's commitment to innovation and...
HDFC Life has launches a new product
HDFC Life has launched a new product - HDFC Life Click 2 Achieve, a guaranteed savings life insurance plan. The plan is designed to safeguard the future of loved ones’ and attain their financial objectives.Aneesh Khanna, Head – Products & Segments, HDFC Life said,...
T-shirt weather in December is a sign of what winter has in store
“Due to this year’s El Niño being quite strong, its influence should be apparent,” commercial forecasting firm NatGasWeather said in a note to clients this week. With temperatures worldwide smashing records earlier in 2023, “this exceptionally warm global background...
Korea sees risks to financial firms from overseas property
The message comes after the country’s pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers plowed billions of dollars into properties and risky real estate loans across the globe in the run up to the pandemic, leaving them under scrutiny as losses start to pile up....
China offers insurance to rubber producers to encourage planting, output
The scheme for producers in Hainan and Yunnan provinces, the main rubber producing regions, will stabilize producers’ income and increase planting acreage to boost the country’s rubber production, according to a joint statement by the finance ministry, agriculture...
Global healthcare benefit cost increases projected to largely continue into 2024, WTW survey finds
“The high cost of new medical technologies is a key reason for the persistently high trend. Furthermore, in some regions, ongoing geopolitical conflicts and resulting displaced populations have negatively affected medical costs due to an increased need for care and...
Google’s Epic legal defeat threatens $200 billion app store industry
The loss — handed down by a San Francisco jury on Monday — is a blow to the two companies’(Google and Epic Games Inc) business model in apps, where they charge commissions of as much as 30 per cent to software developers who typically have few other options. Google’s...
MoRTH aims to halve road accidents and casualties by 2030: Gadkari
Nitin Gadkari,Union Minister,Ministry of Road Transport and Highways According to the latest report by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), the number of road accidents in India went up 12 per cent to over 4.6 lakh in 2022, resulting in deaths of 19 people...
GenAI: Breakthrough Technology for Innovative Marketing
Gagandeep Gadri, Managing Director of frog, part of Capgemini Invent, said, “The future of marketing will undeniably be influenced by the widespread adoption of generative AI to deliver personalized content and communication; it’s value realization will need a fusion...
GenAI startups defy funding winter, raise record $10 bn in 2023
New Delhi: Generative AI (GenAI) startups raised $10 billion in venture capital globally in 2023, a huge 110 per cent rise compared to 2021, a new report showed on Monday. Startup funding has been subdued in 2023 with $224 billion in total venture capital funding (as...
GIC reaches agreement to buyout Cinven’s stake in Miller
``This further investment in Miller is consistent with GIC’s strategy of developing long-term relationships with our portfolio companies and targeting the highest quality businesses. The defensive nature and strong market dynamics of the (re)insurance market, coupled...
GIC reaches agreement to buyout Cinven, securing independent future for Miller
``This further investment in Miller is consistent with GIC’s strategy of developing long-term relationships with our portfolio companies and targeting the highest quality businesses. The defensive nature and strong market dynamics of the (re)insurance market, coupled...