Stubbornly high shipping expenses for businesses are getting sealed into contracts for the next 12 months, forcing companies to pass the extra costs on to consumers. The price for a container of goods from China…
U GRO Capital seeks patent for its scorecard…
U GRO Capital has announced that it has filed an application with the Indian Patent Office for its methods and systems for modelling scorecards. This has allowed the company to penetrate in an unstructured segment,…
Tata Power, SIDBI join hands for rooftop solar…
NEW DELHI: Tata Power on Tuesday announced its partnership with SIDBI to provide a finance scheme to the MSME players in the rooftop solar segment. Tata Power said easy financing has been one of the…
Exporters in a post-Covid world need finance and…
When the government announced a stringent lockdown in March to counter the coronavirus pandemic, few people really gave a thought to the economy. Employers, employees, entrepreneurs and everyone assumed that life would get back on…
A Canadian ‘Buy Local’ effort fights Amazon on…
TORONTO — The snow was falling outside Ali Haberstroh’s apartment in late November when the idea came to her. At the time, Canada was nearing a second lockdown to curb rising coronavirus cases. In anticipation,…
Algorithms already rule our world. Time to make…
This is the story of a 19-year-old girl - Tay. More accurately, we are talking about Tay.ai, an Artificial Intelligence, developed by Microsoft in 2016, and masked behind an innocent young girl’s face. Tay was…
RoDTEP scheme on all export goods from January…
Benefit of Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme will be extended to all export goods from January 1, 2021, the finance ministry said in a statement Thursday. Under the scheme, the…
Which developing economies will rise after the pandemic?
After 2000, globalization and surging commodity prices astronomically boosted economic growth among nations with emerging economies. Over the next decade their share of the global economy nearly doubled, growing to 35 percent. By 2007, 107…
How college students are turning hobbies into side…
CNBC's "College Voices 2020" is a series written by CNBC fall interns from universities across the country about coming of age, getting their college education and launching their careers during these extraordinary times. Janelle Finch…