The proposed city been embroiled in controversy from the start over how data from smartphones, sensors and the like, will be used.
Spearheaded by France, the plan has met resistance from countries such as Ireland and Sweden, which question the wisdom of the EU going it alone given the global nature of digital services.
The trial, starting the day before a momentous midterm election, could help rewrite the nation’s political map for a decade.
The board of directors of AirAsia Group (AAGB) on Tuesday rebutted all allegations levelled against the airline’s top brass including group CEO Tony Fernandes, deputy group CEO Bo Lingam and also AAGB and AirAsia India.
In March 2014, the government approved two projects for setting up semiconductor units and also created an empowered committee (EC) for implementation of the projects.
Alliance Air, which is the low cost regional subsidiary of Air India, will launch three new routes under the government's regional connectivity scheme by the end of September and will induct eight ATR – 72 aircraft by the end of FY18 to further consolidate and expand its operations.
Uber doing away with the post-trip tracking feature that had drawn the ire of users is a sign of the torsion privacy concerns create when faced with the demands of a data-driven world.
In today’s world, employers need to be shown, not told, what your skills are. So, set up that GitHub account, post your projects there, develop an opinion, and create a portfolio rather than a resume.
Employees no longer need to be working at the desk to stay productive: Microsoft.
By 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill-sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial.
The ocean has deep secrets. It is a world as vibrant as the one outside. There is a unique ecology that defies common knowledge and often perplexes scientists. This barely-explored territory is also believed to hold vast quantities of precious metals and minerals that can sustain the modern world for centuries. So it is not […]
Defence, water issues and agriculture will top the agenda of talks when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Israel next month.
A minor planet has been named after a Bengaluru student. What are the rules behind such nomenclature?
It will allow startups to challenge incumbent operators.
The President’s executive order directs the federal bureaucracy to enforce visa law more vigorously, and to study new ways to reform and restrict the H-1B system.
The number of applicants seeking H-1B visas has dropped significantly with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) receiving only 199,000 petitions for 2017, compared with 236,000 in 2016, reflecting the impact of the recent protectionist measures undertaken by the American government.
Fifa adding more World Cup berths could mean better representation for Asia and Africa
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has granted observer status to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC),
US Elections 2016: The US Embassy in Delhi is all set to welcome the new President. Here are some pics what the US embassy in Delhi looks like right now:
Every start-up hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world.
Candidates are following a shift in the political debate, from jobs and a fragile economic recovery during the 2012 campaign, to one now centred on income inequality
HSBC pledged a new era of higher dividends on Tuesday, laying out plans to slash nearly one in five jobs...
Will Apple’s newest product—the Watch—be as big as its iPhone?
The Courchevel cable car is the latest addition to Airbnb’s ‘A Night At’ series, offering overnight accommodation in money-can’t-buy venues around the world
The US is home to 50% of the world’s golf courses. That also figures why the country has some of the most beautiful and wonderfully...
Assets of top oil funds quadruple to $5.4 bn since July, Contango structure trims gains through roll costs
In front of a packed audience here, Mark Zuckerberg turned on the charm.
A reversal of fortunes within the financial industry is illustrated in few places more vividly than JPMorgan Chase.
Emerging from the desert like a giant steel squid, Abu Dhabi’s new airport terminal is starting to take shape.
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings in Britain, acquitted last year on charges related to the phone hacking...
For the next four days, a sprawling conference centre here will become the global hub for the telecommunications and technology industries.
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service...
Silicon Valley has lately come to the realisation that it is not the meritocracy it has long pretended to be...
Many officials are concerned that raising rates prematurely ‘might damp the apparent solid recovery’.
David Carr, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand...
To Dick Costolo, there’s gold in them thar tweets, and Twitter has just begun to mine it.
Finance ministers to meet on Monday again to find a solution
Jon Stewart, who turned Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” into a sharp-edged commentary on current events...
Low inflation rate and slow growth help
The housing market has shown signs of life recently. Prices have risen, mortgage rates are very attractive and construction...
A sensuous Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has been sold from a Swiss private...
As we learned during the financial crisis, a country with high debt levels can get into trouble regardless of whether its debts are most heavily owed by the govt (Greece, Italy), households (Spain, US), or financial institutions (Ireland, Britain)
To issue $1.5 bn in new shares to help finance deal
Decides to pay each of its 48,000 union workers a record $9,000 profit-sharing bonus
It cost $1.37 billion, but Standard & Poor’s finally seems to have closed the darkest chapter in its 150-year history as a rating agency.
You’ve got to hand it to SAP for competitive vision. Then take some back for how it’s explaining itself.
The Federal Reserve’s upgraded view that growth in the world's biggest economy is “solid”...
Inflation in the eurozone has fallen to its lowest level since 2009, according to official data released...
Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital, has no interest in overthrowing the Communist Party...
By spinning off stake into a separate firm, Yahoo will be judged by its Web businesses