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Netcore Cloud, a MarTech and customer experience company, has appointed Mahesh Narayanan as its chief marketing growth officer. In his new role, Narayanan will be pivotal in accelerating the company’s global expansion plans and fortifying its leadership positioning by leveraging his marketing expertise to drive growth strategies effectively.

By Kashif Anwar

international flights. But do you need that much time for connections between international flights? Layovers of just 30 minutes can be feasible for domestic flights, especially at small airports where the next flight might be just one gate over. But international layovers are typically far more complicated, and even two hours can be insufficient. Here’s how to book flights with an international layover, and how much time you really need.WAYS TO BOOK A FLIGHT WITH AN INTERNATIONAL LAYOVER Let’s say you’re flying from Houston to Hanoi, Vietnam. There might be no direct flights between those two cities, but you could get there via layover. The most common, least risky way to book international flights necessitating a layover is by searching for flights between your departure and arrival cities. Even with no nonstops available, the airline automatically determines your layover and puts both flights on one reservation. This strategy is ideal for a few reasons:

Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) has signed up with the Karnataka government, offering to invest about $600 million, or nearly Rs 5,000 crore, in two iPhone component manufacturing projects, expected to create nearly 13,000 jobs. A Foxconn team led by chairman Young Liu formally signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the government after Industries Minister MB Patil, IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge, Additional Chief Secretary (IT/BT) EV Ramana Reddy and Industries Commissioner Gunjan Krishna held talks with the team in Chennai on Monday. ET reported on Tuesday that Foxconn may invest up to $500 million for a new unit near Bengaluru airport to make smartphone accessories.

«Generally in common parlance when we talk about an investor's risk, we refer to it as a risk profile. But very seldom does a person realise that the risk profile is made of two important components, that is, an individual's risk-taking ability and risk-taking willingness,» says Nirav Karkera, Head of Research, Fisdom.A very important practice which an investor he himself or herself should be doing even before approaching anyone or even a professional to get a help from for their financial planning or their investment portfolio. This is a very important part of your homework that you as an investor should be aware of and when we talk about investor profile personalities, we are usually talking about the risk profile that they carry so that it gets easier for them to understand the kind of investment options that are available for them or they match or the ones that match with their profile. So, what kind of investor profiles are we talking about over here? A person who just cannot take risk, who is risk averse; a person who is very aggressive in nature when it comes to risk. Is it all related to risk?Yes, so there are a variety of ways in which one could classify risk profile or rather an investor profile.

₹2,300 crore through Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) of Units. The firm further noted that the proceeds from the placement will be directed toward financing the announced acquisition of two large commercial assets from Brookfield Asset Management’s private real estate funds, it said in a stock regulatory filing.

Scyne Advisory has appointed former PwC partner Richard Gwilym as its interim chief executive as the breakaway firm continues pitching its new approach to public sector consulting to wary federal and state government departments.

«I think you would have to contextualise what is happening today versus how we have got to this point. We have had a pretty strong and resilient global equity market so far this year,» says Gautam Samarath, M&G PLC.Global cues and macros are giving shivers to markets across the world, and India is no different. Is it justified? Can the Fitch news blow up into something even bigger or maybe we are paying too much attention to it right now? I think you would have to contextualise what is happening today versus how we have got to this point.

Uber's surge pricing has once again come under scrutiny after CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, expressed his astonishment at the exorbitant fare charged to a journalist recently. During an interview with Wired editor Steven Levy, Khosrowshahi was taken aback when shown a receipt for a 4-km trip in Manhattan, New York, which amounted to a staggering $51.69, including the driver's tip. Khosrowshahi's reaction was one of surprise, exclaiming, «Oh my God.

Metal stocks fell up to 3% on Wednesday amid a firmer US dollar which made greenback-priced commodities more expensive for holders of other currencies. The Nifty metal index was down 1.3% around 11:45 am and trading at 6,681, with 12 scrips in the red in the 15-stock index. The top losers in the day's trade were National Aluminium Company (3%), Jindal Stainless (2.6%) and Tata Steel (2.6%).

₹87,295 crore to banks and financial institutions, according to the Union Finance Ministry. Fugitive Mehul Choksi's Gitanjali Gems is the biggest wilful defaulter owing ₹8,738 crore to banks, followed by Era Infra Engineering Limited owing ₹5,750 crore, REI Agro Limited ₹5,148 crore, ABG Shipyard Limited ₹4,774 crore, and Concast Steel and Power Limited ₹3,911 crore. Other wilful defaults are Rotomac Global Private Limited ₹2,894 crore, Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery Limited ₹2,846 crore, Frost International Limited ₹2,518 crore, Shri Lakshmi Cotsyn Limited ₹2,180 crore, and Zoom Developers Private Limited ₹2,066 crore.

Narendra Modi on Wednesday met with top ministers to discuss the government's strategy in both the houses. As per the sources close to ANI, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Pralhad Joshi, Piyush Goyal, Anurag Singh Thakur, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman and Arjun Ram Meghwal were present at the meeting. The meeting comes on the same day as Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, led a 21-member delegation of MPs from I.N.D.I.A to meet President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan .

TikTok with new features. One such feature being rolled out by YouTube is the experimentation with live video previews in a user's Shorts feed, similar to how TikTok displays live videos. With the new addition, viewers can click on the preview to watch the livestream and explore other live videos within the feed.

MUMBAI — Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund is unperturbed by the rally in domestic equities and believes that mid-teen returns are likely over the next 1 year given the strong fundamentals. Asked about how the fund aims to generate alpha returns for its investors, Jitendra Sriram, a senior fund manager at the asset management firm, shared the “BMV” metric adopted by the company in its hybrid fund to achieve the same.

Fitch on Tuesday downgraded the U.S. government's top credit rating, a move that drew an angry response from the White House and surprised investors, coming despite the resolution of the debt ceiling crisis two months ago.

investors Cerberus Capital, Ares SSG, Varde Partners, and Davidson Kempner are raising their bets in the Indian market as many stressed firms, largely cut off from bank funding, offer an opportunity. Recently, a Shapoorji Pallonji Group company raised ₹14,300 crore through the sale of bonds at a yield of 18.75%.

Overstock has officially relaunched the Bed & Bath & Beyond site online Tuesday in the U.S., after acquiring the bankrupt retail chain’s intellectual property assets for $21.5 million

Mystery travel involves setting off on a trip where you only know the destination once you board the plane

A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction

State Street Global Advisors chopped fees Tuesday on nearly half the ETFs in its Portfolio line of products, citing new costs that are below similar funds from Vanguard, BlackRock and Charles Schwab.

Nokia posted ₹9,500 crore of revenue in India during the April-June period, boosted by the 5G rollouts. Sanjay Malik, head of the India market, tells Danish Khan that the 5G-led growth in India is happening faster than in some developed markets. The company is supporting Vodafone Idea's existing 4G operations and is awaiting the telco's funding, which is taking longer than what Nokia had expected, he says.