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When OpenTable CEO Debby Soo joined the restaurant reservation company in 2020, the industry was struggling through the pandemic

Jacob Keller, a hospital security guard in Bowling Green, Ohio, starts patrolling corridors at midnight. It’s quiet, and he spends most of his time alone. The 45-year-old has lost touch with most of his friends, and his wife and kids are usually asleep when he’s working.

Neville Roy Singham, an American businessman and former chairman of IT consulting firm ThoughtWorks, has come under scrutiny for allegedly financing groups that propagate Chinese state media propaganda, including Indian website NewsClick. Born in the US in 1954, Singham pursued economics at Howard University before embarking on a career as a software engineer.

The price of Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) has dropped to $0.00007840 today, representing a 0.5% loss in 24 hours and a 3.5% decline in the past week.

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leadership in AI. Topaz is aimed at creating efficiencies across the enterprise by using smart tools, platforms, and autonomous software engineering for business agility.

According to data from the “Data Breach Investigation Report 2023” by Verizon, SMBs experience 699 incidents annually with 381 cases of confirmed data disclosure and large businesses face 496 incidents annually with 227 cases of confirmed data disclosure. System intrusion is the top common threat. There are several safeguards’ companies can implement to protect themselves, says the report.

multibagger returns in 2023, data analysed by ETMarkets showed. These companies have a minimum market capitalization of Rs 500 crore, and the stocks have given up to over 3000% returns year-to-date. Prominent names that were chased by FII dollars in the quarter gone by include Aurionpro Solutions, Jindal Saw, Titagarh Rail Systems, Newgen Software, Zensar Technologies, Ramkrishna Forgings, Mrs Bectors Food Specialities, and Chennai Petroleum Corporation.

Gabriel India, Karur Vyasya Bank, Navneet Education, RITES Ltd, and three others will be in focus on Monday as they will trade ex-dividend today. A total of seven stocks will trade ex-dividend today. The ex-dividend date is the day on which the price of an equity share adjusts to reflect the next dividend payout.

Wall Street's main indices ended lower on Friday, capping off a losing week as investors digested the latest U.S. jobs report and disappointing earnings from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).

NEW DELHI : An overwhelming majority of personal income tax filers have opted for the old tax regime that allows a host of tax exemptions, but the new regime with more flexible tax rates and fewer exemptions is beginning to attract more takers, according to professionals who assist taxpayers in filing their returns. In the just-concluded season for personal income tax return (ITR) filing, 85% of individuals have opted for the old regime, and the rest for the new regime, showed an analysis by leading fintech software as a service (SaaS) company Clear (formerly ClearTax), based on data of tax returns filed using its tax return filing service.

Rajeev Chandrasekar said on Sunday.India has an exciting opportunity and to make that opportunity fruitful, it should focus on developing commercially and globally competitive technology, he said at an event here. «The government is fully committed to making sure that DIR-V (Digital India RISC-V) microprocessor is the Indian ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), and we are ready to back the industry in developing cutting edge competitive systems,» he said in a virtual address at the Digital India RISC-V Symposium.

Fintech firm Enkash expects its business to grow by 36% to $30 million, about Rs 250 crore, in this fiscal on account of digitisation in small and medium business in the accounting segment, a senior official of the company said. Ascent Capital-backed Enkash founder Hemant Vishnoi told PTI the company focuses on spends management of small and medium enterprises that have over Rs 10 crore annual turnover and expects the customer base to double in the current fiscal. «We closed last financial year closer to $22 million revenue and we are targeting close to $30 million this year.

In our joint piece in May 2023 (‘How should humans respond to advancing artificial intelligence?’), we explored the power and reach of AI. Still, we expressed concern about its impact on human creativity, decision-making unregulated by human conscience, and the productive utility of human time saved by AI adoption. We also said that human beings were survivors and would probably outlive the predicted AI-doomsday scenarios.

Besides the economic slowdown, the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has further added to the miseries of those working in the tech industry. As a result, freshers are being forced to reconsider their career choices and move to other fields. They are ready to place job security above lucrative salaries to ensure their survival in a highly uncertain employment landscape. However, we cannot deny the fact that a lot of companies are also going on a hiring spree to keep up with the constantly evolving demands of technology. Hence, to plan your career in tech, it has become imperative to first understand the market trends. Only then can you determine which IT roles can promise job security amid the ongoing layoffs. Which IT jobs are safe and high in demand?

NEW DELHI: The Union home minister and minister of cooperation Amit Shah is scheduled to inaugurate the digital portal of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) office in Pune on August 6. This move by the Ministry of Cooperation aligns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of “Sahkar se Samridhi," which aims to bolster the cooperative movement in the nation.

—Keith Wolf, Murray Resources Early in my career, I was recruiting for a mid-level remote developer position for a tech company. I always prepare my candidates for their interviews, so I hopped on the phone with him and went over the basics: The interview would be over Zoom, but make sure you’re still professional from the waist up, don’t wear a hat, that kind of thing. He seemed ready to go, and I had confidence—he had a great background.

Sonata Software have offered massive returns to investors in the last 10 years. The shares have risen 4300% over the decade. Accordingly, if an investor had invested Rs 10,000 in the stock 10 years ago and stayed put, the investment would have swelled to Rs 4 lakh, according to an analysis by ET Markets.

Infosys executive vice president Richard Lobo has stepped down from his post after serving 22 years at the company. «This is to inform that Richard Lobo, Executive Vice President and Senior Management Personnel, has resigned from the services of the company,» said the Bengaluru-based firm in an exchange filing Friday. His last day with the company would be August 31, the filing said.

UBS Group AG is poised to make sweeping changes to the senior ranks of its investment banking division globally as soon as Monday, marking a new milestone in the process of integrating Credit Suisse, people familiar with the matter said. The changes are aimed at producing unified teams following the completion of UBS's emergency takeover in June of Credit Suisse. The changes are broad and involve several dealmaking groups, including healthcare, consumer/retail, financial sponsors and equity capital markets, the sources said.

MapMyIndia, a digital maps and deep-tech products platform, reported a 32.2% on-year rise in profit after tax to Rs 32 crore in the first quarter of the fiscal year on the back of strong growth across segments. The platform’s revenue from operations for the quarter ended June rose 37.5% on year to Rs 89.4 crore.