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According to an official release, KonProz, a  GenAI platform, hosted a summit on Generative AI. The summit is believed to be hosted at the India Habitat Centre, Jacaranda Hall, New Delhi and might improve the legal, financial, and consulting sectors. 

antitrust body has appointed three new members to oversee cases, including a former government official from the commerce ministry and a former interim compliance officer of WhatsApp, according to sources with direct knowledge. The new members appointed are Anil Agrawal, a former police official who recently worked at India's commerce ministry and worked on various startup initiatives. He confirmed the appointment to Reuters, but declined to elaborate. Two other appointments include Sweta Kakkad, a lawyer whose LinkedIn profile showed she is a former interim chief compliance officer at WhatsApp.

India’s semiconductor ambitions got a shot in the ... moreIndia’s semiconductor ambitions got a shot in the arm on Sunday.

G20 Summit has inspired me immensely of the true potential we have as a country and our place in the world. More on this in the coming weeks and months as the new conversations begin now," Jain said in a Linkedin post. “Creation excites, and I am moving on to create something exciting," Suri said on Linkedin.

Get the degree, get the job offer, get that first promotion. Then what? The set paths that used to shape so many careers are eroding fast these days. Instead of handing out fancy new titles at every performance review, companies like Meta Platforms are cutting layers of middle managers.

G20 Summit has inspired me immensely of the true potential we have as a country and our place in the world. More on this in the coming weeks and months as the new conversations begin now," Jain said in a Linkedin post. “Creation excites, and I am moving on to create something exciting," Suri said on Linkedin.

Orios Venture Partners (VP) on Monday had two of its managing partners, Anup Jain and Rajeev Suri, step down in back-to-back announcements on professionals networking platform LinkedIn. Jain and Suri are set out to launch a fund independently, sources in the know told ET. “Rajeev Suri who was heading investor relations and Anup Jain who was part of the investing team have departed. Rehan Yar Khan, the founding partner, continues to head fund investments along with a nine member team,” a spokesperson from Orios VP said in a statement. The Mumbai-based firm said it will continue to look to make eight to ten investments a year.

Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said the government was «fully committed» to Foxconn's plans to expand its manufacturing footprint in the country. «Fully committed to support and facilitate,» Vaishnaw said on X (formerly Twitter) and quoted the Foxconn India representative V Lee's LinkedIn post on Sunday where he had wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of his birthday and said the Taiwanese contract manufacturer was “aiming for another doubling of employment, FDI (foreign direct investment), and business size in India” by this time next year.

Foxconn, Taiwan-based Apple supplier, has said that they are planning to double their investment and workforce in India within the next twelve months, according to V Lee' LinkedIn post on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 73rd birthday. Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, has rapidly expanded its presence in India by investing in manufacturing facilities in the south of the country as the company seeks to move away from China.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has recently concluded his divorce from Nicole Shanahan, an attorney and entrepreneur, following allegations of her involvement with billionaire Elon Musk, according to a report by Page Six. Court documents confirm the divorce, which grants them shared legal and physical custody of their 4-year-old daughter. While Shanahan did not contest the divorce, she did request spousal support, as indicated in the court papers.

Elon Musk is now reported to have been the ‘extra’ in marital affair, more than one. The Tesla chief is said to have been the cause of divorce between Google's co-founder Sergey Brin and his former wife Nicole Shanahan. The Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his California based lawyer wife Nicole Shanahan received confirmation of their divorce proceedings on 26 May, 2023.

Gen X professionals are curious and eager to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) at work, according to a report. Over 75 per cent of Millennials and 74 per cent of Gen X professionals surveyed feel that AI will take boring tasks off their plate giving them the time to focus on tasks that excite them, said a report by LinkedIn India. Meanwhile, 70 per cent of Gen Z are also eager and curious to adapt to the world of AI, the report added.

Radhika Gupta, the CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management Company, recently pondered about turning 40. While many people feel bittersweet about turning a year older, get into a philosophical mode, or engage in nostalgia, reminiscing about the ‘good ol’ days’, Gupta was rather optimistic about turning older. Taking to LinkedIn, she wrote how, just before she turned 40, she was standing in front of the iconic BSE Towers, a 29-storey building in India’s Wall Street, the Dalal Street. She then went on to write about how she took photos with some youngsters. The entrepreneur went on to say that although she has turned older, she has no life lessons to share.

Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka on Friday said that the next phase for the startup is to build scale, either with funding, or through a strategic partnership with a player that has already achieved it. “With the current reality of a slow investor market, the best way forward is to partner with someone who has the distribution strength to give Koo a massive user impetus and help it grow. With a platform that's scale ready, Koo can outshine competitors with the right push on growth,” he said in a LinkedIn post.

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) was male-dominated. On National Engineers’ Day, Kalaari Capital MD Vani Kola took to LinkedIn, to share the myriad challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated field. She began the post, by sharing that when she was studying BTech in 1980, she was among the handful of women in the engineering college before talking about Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha, India's first woman engineer, who graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy, in 1943 with a degree in electrical engineering. “I joined engineering college in 1980.By then, there were only a handful of women pursuing engineering. Most families, unlike mine, didn’t encourage girls to pick up engineering.Those 4 years taught me how to navigate naysayers and gender sensitivities. Little did I know then of the women who paved my way,” begins her post. Later she delved into the life of India’s first female engineer. The post went viral on the job portal, gaining more than 338 likes. One LinkedIn user wrote, “Thank you for sharing this inspiring story about Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha and reflecting on your own journey in engineering. Her story serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of breaking down barriers and stereotypes in STEM fields and empowering women to pursue their passions and ambitions. Her legacy can serve as an inspiration for future generations of engineers.”

Interim Newcrest Mining chief executive Sherry Duhe has taken to social media to assure former Fortescue chief financial officer Christine Morris that she made a “very wise” decision to quit the iron ore miner last month.

health care giant, Thursday said it has replaced its 130 years well-known script logo with a modern look that reflects its sharpened focus on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The original script used since 1887— based on co-founder James Wood Johnson's signature — will still be seen for now on consumer products like baby shampoo from Kenvue, a new company recently spun off from J&J. The signature logo was “one of the longest-used company emblems in the world," J&J declared in a 2017 website post.

Google is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees from its recruiting team globally. One of the laid-off Google employees in the US, who is the sole breadwinner of her family, has shared a heartfelt note on LinkedIn. «This is probably the most hardest thing I've ever had to write, so please excuse any grammatical errors.

According to an official release, Capgemini announced its collaboration with the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) division of Exiger, a global financial crime practice. This acquisition is expected to improve the Group’s offerings in financial crime, risk management and regulatory compliance services. The transaction is due to close in the coming months, as per insights from the release.

Ravi Handa is just 39 and already plain bored. His LinkedIn bio explains his status. “Sold my company, retired early, now bored. Reach out with interesting job opportunities. Will work for free/ESOPs". The founder of ‘Handa Ka Funda’, an edtech platform, reached out to various newspapers offering his crossword skills for free. Unfortunately for Handa, there are no takers, yet.

Anmol Garg. True enough, for his choice of specialisation, Garg may well be regarded — to use an oft-cited startup lingo – as one of the ‘category creators’ in this emerging brand of corporate comedy. Better known as ‘Corporate Babaji’, a moniker he has earned thanks to his corporate wisdom, the stand-up comic has created several viral reels on corporate life, including ‘LinkedIn Job Search’; ‘Startup Scam’ (all learning, no earning); ‘Company Loyalty’, among others. A software engineer by training and the former founder of a sales training and consulting company called Sales5X, Garg has earned a following for his sharp wit and humour on relatable topics such as office politics, full and final settlements, senior managers taking credit for other’s work, and so on.