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Valerie Chapman, turned to LinkedIn after being laid off twice and now earns approximately Rs 8.6 lakh a month. Chapman previously worked in advertising and content creation but found stability in content monetization on LinkedIn.

sign-on bonus, along with a six-figure salary and $100,000 (about Rs 86 lakh) in stock options. Now the CEO of career development platform PayBump, she emphasizes that discussing salary early in a job interview can lead to better outcomes. «They initially pushed back, but because I knew how to quantify my value, I was able to show them how much they would lose if I walked away. Two days later, they told me they found the budget to give me the full $54,000 I had asked for,» McCall told CNBC Make It.

Napster, which started out as a music sharing service, is set for a revival and revamp after being acquired by 3D technology company Infinite Reality for $207 million on Tuesday. According to a press release from Infinite Reality (iR), in addition to relaunching Napster as a music streaming service, the company aims to transform it into a “social music platform that prioritizes active fan engagement over passive listening, allowing artists to connect with, own, and monetize the relationship with their fans”. Napster’s journey

The Asian financial center’s roadmap — an updated version was published last month — could serve as a blueprint for the US Securities and Exchange Commission, currently consulting the public to develop a “workable regulatory framework” for digital coins.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: Logistics company Delhivery Ltd expects its three-month-old quick-commerce business to end this fiscal year with ₹100 crore in revenue and its new warehouses catering to online-first brands and e-commerce platforms to break even in a few months. The Gurugram-based firm is also looking to expand its quick-commerce business to major metropolitan cities in a few months, said Milind Sharma, Delhivery’s newly appointed head of rapid commerce and direct-to-consumer brands.

Monster Hunter Wilds delivers its adventure to global audiences, who have been hunting the dangerous creatures for almost a month now. Both returning hunters and those new to the series stay committed to playing Monster Hunter Wilds during High Rank, exactly because the game provides fascinating challenges beyond the primary story.

Ayushman Bharat and will get health coverage of Rs 5 lakh. Preparations to provide the benefits of Ayushman Bharat to gig and platform workers are almost complete, Sumita Dawra, Secretary, Labour and Employment Ministry, told in an exclusive interview. India's gig and platform economy is expanding, offering new jobs in sectors like ridesharing, delivery, logistics, and professional services. NITI Aayog has projected that the gig economy in India will employ over one crore workers in 2024-25, subsequently reaching 2.35 crore by 2029-30. Recognizing the contribution of the gig and platform workers to the nation's economy, Union Budget 2025-26 announcements had provision for registration of online platform workers on e-Shram portal, issue of identity cards, and and healthcare coverage under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). Dawra said schemes for gig and platform workers will be started soon.

According to Downdetector, complaints began around 9 a.m. ET and spiked at approximately 1 p.m. in the UK (6:30 p.m. IST). Reports flooded in from across the East and West Coasts of the US, while users in the UK also experienced similar issues.

Bharat Interface for Money) for tracking, managing, and even splitting expenses with your friends, relatives, and colleagues. NPCI BHIM Services Limited (NBSL), which is fully owned by NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India), launched BHIM 3.0. While BHIM 3.0 will be rolled out across multiple platforms in a phased manner, it is expected to be fully available as early as next month, i.e., April 2025.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: Vikas, 24, who does not wish to reveal his full name, was looking for extra income when he discovered the Probo app through a YouTube influencer last year. A final year MBA student in Jaipur, Vikas was intrigued by the prospect of making money by predicting stock trends and outcomes of cricket matches.

Zerodha has introduced six new features on its trading and investment platform, Kite, to make order placement easier for users. Founder and chief executive officer Nithin Kamath announced the update on X, highlighting key enhancements such as order slicing, available margin display, a new basket icon, and more.

Va Tech Wabag have received favorable views from analysts who anticipate a turnaround. The stock, part of Rekha Jhunjhunwala’s portfolio, has seen a sharp decline after a stellar rally, making it a small-cap multibagger. Despite the recent fall, Va Tech Wabag has delivered 104% returns over the past year, significantly outperforming the Nifty50’s nearly 7% gain.

Nitin Jain, Founder & Director of La Pink, expressed his immense pride in partnering with the ET Women Conclave 2025: “It is a great honour to meet such inspirational women. Associating with such powerful and inspiring leaders brings us closer to achieving our mission of creating a space for a 100% microplastic-free beauty industry.

OpenAI and Anthropic. The new model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, was made available through AI development platform Hugging Face, marking the company's latest push to establish itself in the rapidly evolving AI market. The latest model demonstrates significant improvements in areas such as reasoning and coding capabilities compared to its predecessor, with benchmark tests showing enhanced performance across multiple technical metrics published on Hugging Face.

Godrej Enterprises Group expects sales of its air conditioners to grow 50 per cent in the next fiscal on the back of continued robust demand and its new range of products, including smart ACs, a top company official said on Tuesday. With the early onset of summer, the group expects the overall industry demand for ACs to be strong at around 30-35 per cent growth but not as high as 60 per cent witnessed last year due to a high base, Godrej Enterprises Group, Business Head & EVP, Appliances Business Kamal Nandi told PTI here. The group on Tuesday ramped up its AC portfolio, including a premium range of smart ACs and also announced its foray into the commercial AC segment with Cassette ACs and Tower ACs. «We will be ending this year (FY25), doubling our volumes. We will be closing this year with about 10 per cent market share. This is up from 6.7 lakh to 14 lakh units. We are growing more than 100 per cent against industry growth that will be roughly about 36 per cent,» Nandi said when asked about the group's growth prospects.

Last year, the results were declared on March 23 at the Sinha Library in Patna. Of the 1,291,684 students who appeared for the exam, 1,126,439 passed. Girls outperformed boys, achieving an 88.84% pass rate compared to 85.69% for boys. The overall pass percentage stood at 87.21%, marking a slight improvement from the previous year. In the 2024 results, Mrityunjay Kumar topped the Science stream with 481 out of 500 marks (96.2%). Tushar Kumar led the Arts stream with 482 marks (96.4%), while Priya Kumari secured the top rank in Commerce with 478 marks (95.6%).