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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Travel is undergoing a shift and while artificial intelligence is revolutionising trip planning by providing tailored options for everyone, it may not help solve the deeper issues within the overall experience, the chief of a global travel search platform said. According to John Mangelaars, CEO of Skyscanner, policy decisions across the world - rather than technology alone - will drive changes in the sector.

platform workers by February next year and will launch a module on the e-Shram portal on Monday to facilitate enrollment of platform workers by their aggregators. The ministry is considering all options, including issuing a unique Id to all gig workers and enabling transaction based contribution by aggregators towards the social security benefits to gig workers, an official source said on Thursday. “The ministry hopes to put in place a policy to give social security to all platform workers before the Union Budget next year,” the source said, adding the benefits could include health security and pension security.

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X that it may calculate fines against the social-media platform by including revenue from Elon Musk’s other businesses, including Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Neuralink Corp., an approach that would significantly increase the potential penalties for violating content moderation rules. Under the EU’s Digital Services Act, the bloc can slap online platforms with fines of as much as 6% of their yearly global revenue for failing to tackle illegal content and disinformation or follow transparency rules. Regulators are considering whether sales from SpaceX, Neuralink, xAI and the Boring Company, in addition to revenue generated from the social network, should be included to determine potential fines against X, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The European Commission has been investigating X for several potential breaches of the Digital Services Act, newly introduced rules meant to ensure platforms police illegal content. The EU is leading a global crackdown on harmful online content and disinformation that’s sparked increasingly vocal responses from Musk, who has said such measures restrict free speech.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The spotlight in artificial intelligence is moving from chatbots to so-called agents, autonomous AI that can follow complex instructions and perform tasks from checking a car rental reservation at the airport to screening potential sales leads.

onion prices before Diwali, the government has decided to flood markets across the country with onions disposing from its buffer stocks. For the first time it will transport the kitchen essential by railway rakes to major consumption centers and states. It will also sell onions via ecommerce platforms such as Zepto, private retail stores such as Reliance Retail and Safal. The government will also be selling onions in the retail market through Kendriya Bhandars and mobile vans. Onion prices ruled close to Rs 100 per kg in retail across major several large consumption centres compelling the government to offload from its own stocks in the retail market at subsidized price of Rs 35 per kilo starting last month.

Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) Societe Generale, Tiger Pacific Master Fund and UBS Principal Capital Asia reduced their holdings in Paytm owner One 97 Communications below 1% in the September ended quarter. Societe Generale held a 1.98% stake in the Paytm parent in the April-June quarter while Tiger Pacific and UBS held 1.3% and 1.06% shares, respectively.

In its trading update for its financial year ended 30 September, released today (17 October), AJ Bell said gross and net inflows across the platform were «significantly higher» than last year, driven by improved retail investor confidence and investment into the platform. AJ Bell Investments promotes Ryan Hughes to managing director Gross inflows during the 12-month period were £13.1bn, up 41% on 2023's £9.3bn. Net inflows stood at £6.1bn in 2024, up 45% year-on-year, compared with £4.2bn in 2023. The trading update added there had been favourable market movements of £9.5bn, equat...

The ruling by Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, emphasises the importance of judicial integrity. The court stated, «We are of the view that the description of the order and the judge is prima facie contemptuous and amounts to interference in proceedings.» Senior advocate Akhil Sibal, representing Wikipedia, clarified that the platform did not create either the critical page or the discussion section. Previously, on September 6, the court had cautioned the open-source platform that it would block the website in India if it failed to adhere to local laws.

ZEE5, the streaming platform from Zee Entertainment, is prioritising family-friendly content, enhancing its technology, and optimising costs through efficient content production to expand its business while minimising losses, according to a senior executive. This strategy has enabled the platform to increase both advertising and subscription revenue while reducing expenses. It expects the advertising business to pick up once the ad rate correction occurs in the industry and Connected TV (CTV) numbers increase. On the subscription side, it has partnered with Vodafone Idea and is in advanced discussions with Bharti Airtel. In the quarter ending in June, ZEE5 reduced its operating loss by 48% to ₹177 crore, while revenue grew by 16% to ₹223 crore. Over the 12 months ending in March, revenue increased by 24% to ₹919 crore, although the operating loss remained steady at ₹1,105 crore.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru/Mumbai: Startup and e-commerce companies may rescue the hiring season for the batches of 2025 at India’s top engineering and business schools by ramping up campus placement targets when the jobs market is still tepid. “For the upcoming placement season, we have set an ambitious target of hiring over 230 recruits across multiple roles—a 55% increase from last year," said Manmeet Sandhu, head of human resources, for fintech platform PhonePe.

Donald Trump's family project has finally come out in public and its token sale has touched nearly 220 million US dollars in value within the first few hours.

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«Over-the-top (OTT) communication services have benefited consumers and businesses, but certain regulatory issues have been raised by law enforcement agencies and traditional communications providers, and [so they] should be subject to structured regulations,» Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti said Wednesday. Speaking on day two of the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2024 here, he added that regulators globally need to maintain a balance between fostering innovation and ensuring a fair and competitive market, given the cross-border nature of OTT services.

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Replacing Hickman at the end of the year is Laura Mason. She currently serves as private markets CEO, having founded the team's alternative assets business and led its institutional retirement division.  She was appointed to her current role this summer, when the group announced plans to merge LGIM and the alternative assets platform Legal & General Capital as a «unified, global, public and private markets asset manager». Mason, who previously spent eight years as a consultant at Towers Perrin prior to the merger with Watson Wyatt, said she is «delighted» to take leadership of the tea...

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