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Updated on: Jun 2023
15-year-old CEO is banned from LinkedIn; here’s the reason
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15-year-old CEO is banned from LinkedIn; here’s the reason

Eric Zhu, 15 years old is a Co-Founder of Aviato and an investor with Bachmanity Capital. Despite this, he can’t have a LinkedIn profile because he is too young to meet LinkedIn’s minimum age requirement. The minimum age limit is at least 16 years old to register and create an account with the social media […]

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HCLTech is developing skills in AI to certify 10,000 engineers
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HCLTech is developing skills in AI to certify 10,000 engineers

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and Microsoft announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) and develop joint solutions to enable businesses to achieve better outcomes and enhance business transformation. Leveraging HCLTech’s deep domain expertise across various industries and Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, clients will benefit from […]

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Google CEO Pichai claims ex-Googlers created 2,000 startups
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Google CEO Pichai claims ex-Googlers created 2,000 startups

An American multinational technology company, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has claimed that the ex-Googlers created 2,000 startups. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, “Googlers have left to create over 2,000 startups, last I counted, and I think that’s great. Some of them are cloud customers down the line for us.” “Some of them come back. I think […]

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Maternity leave should increase from six months to nine months?
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Maternity leave should increase from six months to nine months?

Recently last month, NITI Aayog member V K Paul said that both the private and public sectors should consider enhancing the maternity leave for women workers from six months to nine months. The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was passed by the Parliament in 2017 entitling paid maternity leave of 26 weeks, up from earlier […]

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Accenture to invest $3 bn in data, AI; to double its AI jobs to 80,000
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Accenture to invest $3 bn in data, AI; to double its AI jobs to 80,000

Accenture announced a $3 billion investment over three years in its Data & AI practice to help clients across all industries rapidly and responsibly advance and use AI to achieve greater growth, efficiency, and resilience. “There is unprecedented interest in all areas of AI, and the substantial investment we are making in our Data & AI […]

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Linda Yaccarino New CEO first email to staff: ‘Enter Twitter 2.0’
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Linda Yaccarino New CEO first email to staff: ‘Enter Twitter 2.0’

The popular social media platform, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino with an extensive background in advertising has sent her first email to employees sharing the detailed vision of building ‘Twitter 2.0’. Linda Yaccarino shared a series of tweets saying, “Hello Twitter. People keep asking me: Why Twitter? So, I’ll tell you.” “Elon knew space exploration and electric vehicles […]

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TCS women employees rejecting WFO, attrition is higher than men
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TCS women employees rejecting WFO, attrition is higher than men

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) has recently said women attrition was higher than that of men likely due to the return-to-office policy. The company has employee-led policies and women constitute 35 percent of the workforce of over 6,00,000. TCS has always focused on women’s employment. The situation is alarming post-Covid. Milind Lakkad, Chief Human Resources Officer […]

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Company replaced all Managers with Coaches, result in Happier Employees
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Company replaced all Managers with Coaches, result in Happier Employees

Companies always work on employee engagement and increasing productivity. Recently, a company introduced a new innovative approach in order to boost productivity. After trending up in recent years, employee engagement in the U.S. saw its first annual decline in a decade — dropping from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 34% in 2021. This pattern continued […]

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OpenAI CEO ‘hopeless’ comment to India, Tech Mahindra CEO responds
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OpenAI CEO ‘hopeless’ comment to India, Tech Mahindra CEO responds

The OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on a visit to India and was attending an event organized by The Economic Times. In the video, he can be heard saying that India’s chances of building a ChatGPT-like tool were ‘hopeless’. Altman was asked by former Vice President of Google in India and South East Asia and current […]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s email to employees on Apple Vision Pro
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Mark Zuckerberg’s email to employees on Apple Vision Pro

The Verge reported that Mark Zuckerberg in a meeting with Meta employees said that Apple’s device didn’t present any breakthroughs in technology. CEO Tim Cook described it as the first Apple product that users look through rather than at. However, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, expressed his dissatisfaction with Apple Vision Pro during a companywide […]

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TCS has high employee retention, 20% employees stay for 10+ yrs
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TCS has high employee retention, 20% employees stay for 10+ yrs

An Indian multinational information technology, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is among the few large Indian companies which have high employee retention. TCS has come a long way in retaining employees. The company is high on employee retention as 20% of employees stay for over 10 years. The company’s headcount as of March 31, 2023, stood at […]

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How India is gearing up for a US$110b GCC industry by 2030?-EY Report
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How India is gearing up for a US$110b GCC industry by 2030?-EY Report

EY, the leading professional services organization, released its ‘Future of GCCs in India – a vision 2030’ report highlighting the expansion of GCC by 2030 on account of the country’s skilled workforce, favourable business and policy environment and growing infrastructure. The report estimates that the domestic GCC market size will potentially reach US$110b by the year 2030 (from the […]

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