A crypto venture recently unveiled by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his new Middle East envoy, billionaire Steve Witkoff, has partnered with a crypto platform that authorities and financial experts say has been used by criminals and Iran-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. World Liberty Financial Inc., founded by the Witkoff family two months before … Read more
Google has updated its AI assistant Gemini with two new features: Deep Research and Gemini 2.0 Flash Image: Shutterstock Tech-heavy Nasdaq blasts past 20,000 after US inflation supports rate cut The Nasdaq Composite Index surged past 20,000 for the first time on December 11, marking a 33 percent gain this year, driven by strong performances … Read more
The newly appointed Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Sanjay Malhotra leaves after addressing a press conference, in Mumbai on December 11, 2024. Image: Indranil Mukherjee / AFP There is never a right time for any central banker posting and Princeton-educated former revenue secretary Sanjay Malhotra will agree. The veteran bureaucrat took charge as Reserve … Read more
(Left)Rajat Diwaker, CEO, iD Fresh Food India and Naveen Tewari, founder and CEO, InMobi and Glance Image: Nishant Ratnakar for Forbes India Bengaluru, 2019. It was ostensibly an unreasonable move. Well, if 99.9 percent of people around you ominously flutter a red flag, then the potential act must be unrealistic. Right? If the deafening noise … Read more
Deir Al-Balah: An Israeli airstrike hit the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 25 Palestinians and wounding dozens more, Palestinian medics said, as U.S. President Joe Biden’s two top national security officials were in the region making a renewed push for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire. The strike on a multistory residential building in the … Read more
As Covid upended the workplace and created burnout, some companies tried to cope by investing in the welfare of their workers – remote work, digitization, increased bonuses. Image: Shutterstock As Covid upended the workplace and created burnout, some companies tried to cope by investing in the welfare of their workers – remote work, digitization, … Read more
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson and CEO of Salesforce India; Image: Selvaprakash Lakshmanan for Forbes India In 1978, Nand Kishore Chaudhary founded Jaipur Rugs to revive the traditional art of rug-making. His broader vision was to offer marginalised weavers, especially women, an opportunity to earn a sustainable livelihood. As the brand grew, it moved its focus from … Read more
SolarSquare Founders (L to R) Neeraj Jain, Shreya Mishra and Nikhil Nahar SolarSquare Energy had already made a bit of name for itself some three years ago, becoming the first solar startup in India to bag an investment from the well-known American investor Christopher Sacca’s dedicated climate-tech fund Lowercarbon Capital. On December 12, the Mumbai … Read more