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$7.5 trillion: That’s the combined market capitalisation of the five big-tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook — at the end of 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal.
If these five big-tech companies were a country, it would have been the world’s third-largest economy, just behind the United States (2019 Nominal GDP in Current U.S. Dollars: $21.43 trillion) and China (2019 Nominal GDP in Current U.S. Dollars: $14.34 trillion)
Tesla made a radical decision to open-source its patents and encourage other companies to use its intellectual property. Tesla recognized that it couldn’t grow without partners that would build charging stations and offer services to create the infrastructure to support electric vehicles. By putting itself at the centre of a burgeoning ecosystem of partners, Tesla laid the groundwork for its own explosive growth.
India’s poultry industry has lost 13 billion rupees ($182 million) in three weeks after speculation on social media that chickens are a cause of the spread of coronavirus.
No matter what disruptive forces and how stressful the scenario is; humans are at the centre of every organization. Tough time tests the human spirit, and leaders often emerge from the most unexpected places.
The word yoga means literally means “union” or “to merge”. More than a set of physical postures or exercises….
The recent development of Covid-19 is set to transform the way we live and the way we work. Perhaps more people will lose the jobs, not due to the impact of Covid-19 but their inability to learn new skills at a much faster speed.
For Uber Eats, the late entry in the Indian market might be a disadvantageous factor, but its exit is more of a strategic failure. The market has accepted another late entrant in the online ordering space. Since the inception of its operations in 2014, Swiggy has made its way to a billion-dollar valuation in four years, forcing Zomato, started in 2008, to play as catch-up.
1. The state creates incentives for people to invest and innovate through guaranteeing private property rights and enforcing contract law.…
#ToRead: 6 most anticipated leadership books of 2019
Beware, millennials are watching you.
