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Global Smartphone Shipments Surged 1.5 Percent YoY in Q1 2025; Samsung, Apple Retain Top Positions: IDC
The global smartphone market has started on a positive note in 2025, according to a preliminary report by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Worldwide smartphone shipments grew 1.5 percent year-over-year (YoY) to 304.9 million units in the first quarter of 2025. Samsung remained the market leader, followed by Apple. The iPh...
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Citing Melting Glaciers, Peruvian Farmer Sues German Firm, Tests Global Climate Law
The glaciers in the Andes of northern Peru are at the centre of a landmark global case that will test the legal culpability of corporations over their greenhouse gas emissions and the role these play in climate change.
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Tata Electronics Acquires 60 Percent Stake in iPhone Maker Pegatron Technology India
Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd (TEPL) has acquired a 60 percent controlling stake in Pegatron's India unit. Pegatron India, a subsidiary of Taiwan's Pegatron Corporation, provides contract-based electronics manufacturing services (EMS) to major global companies such as Apple.
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Madhav Sheth Departs Realme India After Five-Year Stint, Founder Sky Li to Oversee India Operations: Details
Madhav Sheth announced his exit from Realme India on Wednesday. The departure of the company's VP for Business and Corporate Strategy (Global) comes five years after he joined the firm in 2018. Sheth has revealed that the company's operations in the region will now be overseen by Founder and CEO Sky Li.
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Apple Said to Make 'Small Number' of Job Cuts in Some Corporate Retail Teams: Details
Apple is said to be cutting a small number of jobs within the company's corporate teams, as part of the first job cuts at the Cupertino firm since it began cost cutting measures last year. The firm is cutting jobs of workers responsible for the construction and upkeep of Apple retail stores and other facilities around the world.
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Accenture to Cut 19,000 Jobs Amid Concerns of Lower IT Spending Due to Global Economic Outlook
Accenture has announced it plans to cut about 2.5 percent of workforce, or 19,000 jobs, as the lowers its profit and revenue forecast for the year. The firm said more than 50 percent of the job cuts would affect staff at its non-billable corporate functions.
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IT Services Firm Accenture To Cut 19,000 Jobs, Trims Profit Forecasts
Accenture Plc said on Thursday it would cut about 19,000 jobs and lowered its annual revenue and profit projections, the latest sign that the worsening global economic outlook was sapping corporate spending on IT services.
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Twitter to Expand Types of Political Ads Permitted on Platform After 2019 Global Ban
Twitter on Tuesday announced the company would expand the kinds of political ads that were allowed on the microblogging platform, months after it was taken over by billionaire Elon Musk. The move appears to be a reversal of the service's 2019 global ban on political ads as the firm and rivals like Facebook faced widespread criticism for allowing e...
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Celsius Onboards New Legal Team to Assist on Its Restructuring, Days After Firing 25 Percent Staff
Celsius Network, the US-based crypto lender is currently struggling to cope with the ongoing slump in the global crypto arena. The company has hired a new legal team from the Kirkland & Ellis LLP law firm to help it come out of its corporate malfunctioning. The newly appointed team of lawyers will advise the Celsius team on various options, which m...
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Mumbai Civic Body Reviews Applications From 9 Firms For Covid Vaccine Supply
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Tuesday said it had started scrutiny of documents of nine of the ten entities which responded to a global Expression of Interest to supply one crore COVID-19 vaccine doses for Mumbai.
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EU Tax Commissioner Slams US Plans on Tech Tax
A global reform of the taxation of corporate digital revenues is very unlikely if the United States continues backing a "safe harbour" plan which would allow firms to choose how to be taxed, European Union tax commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday.
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Rajat Gupta's Tell-All: The Rise And Fall Of Wall Street's Poster Boy
Rajat Gupta was once the toast of Wall Street, a real Indian-American icon admired around the world. He became the first Indian-born CEO of a multinational corporation when he was chosen Managing Director of McKinsey, the global consulting firm, in 1994. He held that prestigious position for nine years. Then came a stunning fall from grace in 2012 ...
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Sensex Recovers Most Of Day's Losses, Nifty Closes Above 10,400: 10 Points
The BSE Sensex closed 21 points lower at 33,835 on Wednesday, recovering most of the day's losses, while the NSE Nifty closed above the 10,400 mark. Banking stocks, which had dragged down the indices earlier during Wednesday's session, rose with the Bank Nifty - the NSE's sub-index for banking stocks - closing 0.5 per cent higher. Oil stocks such a...
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India Among Countries Worst-Affected by New 'Fireball' Malware: Check Point
"Fireball" is designed to hijack browsers to change the default search engine and track their web traffic on behalf of Beijing-based digital marketing firm called Rafotech.
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Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu Meets Industry Executives in US
Union Urban Development Minister Mr Venkaiah Naidu today met US industry executives and discussed opportunities in schemes launched by his ministry.
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Global Smartphone Shipments Surged 1.5 Percent YoY in Q1 2025; Samsung, Apple Retain Top Positions: IDC
The global smartphone market has started on a positive note in 2025, according to a preliminary report by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Worldwide smartphone shipments grew 1.5 percent year-over-year (YoY) to 304.9 million units in the first quarter of 2025. Samsung remained the market leader, followed by Apple. The iPh...
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Citing Melting Glaciers, Peruvian Farmer Sues German Firm, Tests Global Climate Law
The glaciers in the Andes of northern Peru are at the centre of a landmark global case that will test the legal culpability of corporations over their greenhouse gas emissions and the role these play in climate change.
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Tata Electronics Acquires 60 Percent Stake in iPhone Maker Pegatron Technology India
Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd (TEPL) has acquired a 60 percent controlling stake in Pegatron's India unit. Pegatron India, a subsidiary of Taiwan's Pegatron Corporation, provides contract-based electronics manufacturing services (EMS) to major global companies such as Apple.
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Madhav Sheth Departs Realme India After Five-Year Stint, Founder Sky Li to Oversee India Operations: Details
Madhav Sheth announced his exit from Realme India on Wednesday. The departure of the company's VP for Business and Corporate Strategy (Global) comes five years after he joined the firm in 2018. Sheth has revealed that the company's operations in the region will now be overseen by Founder and CEO Sky Li.
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Apple Said to Make 'Small Number' of Job Cuts in Some Corporate Retail Teams: Details
Apple is said to be cutting a small number of jobs within the company's corporate teams, as part of the first job cuts at the Cupertino firm since it began cost cutting measures last year. The firm is cutting jobs of workers responsible for the construction and upkeep of Apple retail stores and other facilities around the world.
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Accenture to Cut 19,000 Jobs Amid Concerns of Lower IT Spending Due to Global Economic Outlook
Accenture has announced it plans to cut about 2.5 percent of workforce, or 19,000 jobs, as the lowers its profit and revenue forecast for the year. The firm said more than 50 percent of the job cuts would affect staff at its non-billable corporate functions.
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IT Services Firm Accenture To Cut 19,000 Jobs, Trims Profit Forecasts
Accenture Plc said on Thursday it would cut about 19,000 jobs and lowered its annual revenue and profit projections, the latest sign that the worsening global economic outlook was sapping corporate spending on IT services.
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Twitter to Expand Types of Political Ads Permitted on Platform After 2019 Global Ban
Twitter on Tuesday announced the company would expand the kinds of political ads that were allowed on the microblogging platform, months after it was taken over by billionaire Elon Musk. The move appears to be a reversal of the service's 2019 global ban on political ads as the firm and rivals like Facebook faced widespread criticism for allowing e...
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Celsius Onboards New Legal Team to Assist on Its Restructuring, Days After Firing 25 Percent Staff
Celsius Network, the US-based crypto lender is currently struggling to cope with the ongoing slump in the global crypto arena. The company has hired a new legal team from the Kirkland & Ellis LLP law firm to help it come out of its corporate malfunctioning. The newly appointed team of lawyers will advise the Celsius team on various options, which m...
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Mumbai Civic Body Reviews Applications From 9 Firms For Covid Vaccine Supply
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Tuesday said it had started scrutiny of documents of nine of the ten entities which responded to a global Expression of Interest to supply one crore COVID-19 vaccine doses for Mumbai.
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EU Tax Commissioner Slams US Plans on Tech Tax
A global reform of the taxation of corporate digital revenues is very unlikely if the United States continues backing a "safe harbour" plan which would allow firms to choose how to be taxed, European Union tax commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday.
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Rajat Gupta's Tell-All: The Rise And Fall Of Wall Street's Poster Boy
Rajat Gupta was once the toast of Wall Street, a real Indian-American icon admired around the world. He became the first Indian-born CEO of a multinational corporation when he was chosen Managing Director of McKinsey, the global consulting firm, in 1994. He held that prestigious position for nine years. Then came a stunning fall from grace in 2012 ...
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Sensex Recovers Most Of Day's Losses, Nifty Closes Above 10,400: 10 Points
The BSE Sensex closed 21 points lower at 33,835 on Wednesday, recovering most of the day's losses, while the NSE Nifty closed above the 10,400 mark. Banking stocks, which had dragged down the indices earlier during Wednesday's session, rose with the Bank Nifty - the NSE's sub-index for banking stocks - closing 0.5 per cent higher. Oil stocks such a...
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India Among Countries Worst-Affected by New 'Fireball' Malware: Check Point
"Fireball" is designed to hijack browsers to change the default search engine and track their web traffic on behalf of Beijing-based digital marketing firm called Rafotech.
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Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu Meets Industry Executives in US
Union Urban Development Minister Mr Venkaiah Naidu today met US industry executives and discussed opportunities in schemes launched by his ministry.
