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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Voting powers at Alphabet and Meta have ensured that shareholder proposals on human rights concerns in India hardly make a dent; separately, Reliance-owned Fynd finds itself in the soup.
Two of the world’s tech giants, Meta and Alphabet, scheduled their annual shareholder meetings within a span of three days. To most, they might seem monotonous and ritualistic, replete with corporate verbiage on growth, sustainability and community. But for observers in India, they did pique interest.
The reason is the proposals submitted by shareholders that concerned Meta’s and Alphabet’s operations in the country. Both, in their own ways, focused on the theme of human rights. Both, through rigorous references to media reports, asked the companies to study and introspect about their business in India. Lastly, both were spearheaded by Ekō, …
The seafood marketplace’s rapid global expansion has lifted the top line, but left it with rising debt, weak cash generation, and uneven returns.
Four years after listing, the logistics company is still searching for sustainable growth as rising costs, weak pricing power and limited new engines weigh on margins.
Instead of going after scale like Jio, the Sunil Bharti Mittal-led telecom giant is chasing a smaller but higher-quality customer base to grow its home broadband segment. Will the bet pay off?
