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Amazon offers Biden help with vaccination efforts

CEO at Amazon World Wide Consumer Dave Clark reiterated a request Amazon had made to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asking that frontline workers among the company’s more than 800,000 US employees, receive vaccines at the “earliest appropriate...

PVR reports huge loss; Indian apparel exports to growth

PVR reports huge loss and film industry suffers  Multiplex player PVR Cinemas on Friday reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 49 crore for the October to December quarter against a profit of Rs 36 crore in the year-ago period....

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Biotech industrialist Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw becomes Vice-Chair at USIBC

Milind Pant and Nasdaq executive Edward Knight are the other two selected Vice-Chairs of US India Business Council. US India Business Council (USIBC) on Thursday named Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Bengaluru, India-headquartered Biocon, and a familiar figure...

Amazon India enters the education sector with Amazon Academy

Amazon Academy will offer 15,000 handpicked questions with hints, detailed solutions, live mock tests, and personalized performance reports.  On Wednesday, Amazon India announced the launch of Amazon Academy, which will take on established educational technology (edtech) companies such as Byju’s,...

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Bengaluru is home to Tesla’s first India office

The American electric vehicle manufacturer has been in dialogue with the Indian government, which hopes Elon Musk's company will assemble and manufacture its products in India. True to earlier, tentative talk, Tesla has finally opened its account in India. The...

Large tech companies freeze political contribution

Microsoft, Facebook, Google, JP Morgan, and Citibank have announced a complete freeze on the political funding, while several other large companies have suspended political donations to Republican congresspersons after last week's Capitol attack. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, JP Morgan, and Citibank...