Netflix has announced new and reduced prices for plans in India, with the mobile-only plan now starting at Rs 149 per month, instead of the earlier Rs 199 per month. The new plans will be applicable for all customers. The move is likely part of Netflix’s attempts to woo more subscribers in the country given [...]
January 15, 2022
Loknath Das
Technology
Google hired David Feinberg from Geisinger Health, a system of hospitals based in Pennsylvania, toward the end of 2018 and put him in charge of a newly created division called Google Health. But the company has remained quiet about the division’s scope and goals. Now he’s beginning to talk publicly about his plans, and appeared on [...]
November 3, 2019
Loknath Das
Health
Arizona State Retirement System intends to invest $2.7bn (€2.4bn) in real estate over next the four years to enable it to reach its 20% allocation target. In a board meeting document, the $38bn US pension fund’s consultant RCLCO Real Estate Advisors said part of the plan would involve the selling of some existing non-strategic real [...]
July 27, 2019
Loknath Das
Real Estate
Singapore/Seattle: In a rare retreat for Amazon.com Inc., the e-commerce giant plans to shut down its Chinese marketplace business in July as it shifts its focus to offering mainland consumers overseas products rather than goods from local sellers. Amazon will keep running its other businesses in China, including Amazon Web Services, Kindle e-books, and cross-border operations [...]
April 21, 2019
Loknath Das
Business
The US has spent nearly $100 billion to build and operate the International Space Station. HIGHLIGHTS Trump plans to stop funding of International Space Station after 2024 Trump administration wants ISS to be an orbiting real estate venture NASA currently studying if life of ISS can be extended to 2028 and beyond The Trump administration [...]
February 12, 2018
Loknath Das
Real Estate
India is looking to reduce the number of state-run banks to 10 to 15, more than what was envisaged earlier, through a series of mergers and acquisitions so that none of the banks become too big to fail, said Sanjeev Sanyal, principal economic adviser at the finance ministry. “Consolidation will not be taken too far [...]
August 21, 2017
Loknath Das
Business
With more than $90 million in cash, the capital is available to support the development of the rich oil reserves offshore Senegal, an Australian company said. FAR Ltd., an Australian energy company and one of the early movers into West Africa, said two blocks offshore Gambia hold at least 1 billion barrels of oil. Offshore [...]
July 31, 2017
Loknath Das
Business
Open, minimalist floor plans are trending in home design, and builders and designers should keep the space simple and sustainable. Remodeling contributor Kacey Bradley presents four factors to think about when designing minimalist modern spaces: 1. Minimalist Modern Structure In architecture, the minimalist modern home leaves more to the imagination at first glance, vastly different from Art [...]
July 24, 2017
Loknath Das
Home Deco
India’s third largest real estate company, Indiabulls Real Estate’s board is planning to do some restructuring in its business. The board of the company considered the possibility of streamlining the company’s existing ‘residential’, ‘commercial’ and ‘leasing’ businesses by segregating the ‘commercial and leasing’ business segment. The company has two options to restructure its business. One [...]
April 17, 2017
Loknath Das
Real Estate
PLATINUM For a monthly premium of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, this plan gives you prime access to all health-care options—no referrals or medical ailments required! If you’d like an MRI just for the fun of it, you’ll be slid into the very next available magnetic scanning tube. All prescription medication is free, plus [...]
February 10, 2017
Saheli
Health
Amazon has revealed plans for a grocery shop without a checkout process, where customers will instead pay for the goods they have selected via an app. The Just Walk Out shopping experience uses the same types of technologies found in self-driving cars. The system detects when items are taken or returned to shelves and tracks [...]
December 5, 2016
Saheli
News
Japan plans to build the world’s fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country’s manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop and improve driverless cars, robotics and medical diagnostics. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will spend 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) on the previously unreported project, a budget [...]
November 28, 2016
Saheli
Technology