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Various homegrown firms, like microblogging platform Koo, e-commerce entity Pinnacle Solutions, and augmented reality tech platform mirrAR, are snapping up employees laid off by Big Tech companies like Meta Inc, Twitter, ShareChat. This, experts said, is a good opportunity to hire talented people from large firms since they are on the market at reasonable salaries.Though the absolute hiring number is not huge since Indian startups are themselves going through funding woes, the roles span product, growth, digital marketing…

JD.com Inc. will offer discounts across its online shopping platforms from Monday in a 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) campaign to capture new users ahead of an anticipated Chinese economic recovery this year.The campaign has spurred concerns that larger rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. or upstart PDD Holdings Inc. may retaliate with cuts of their own, igniting a margin-eroding price war. JD announced the launch of the subsidy plan in a statement on its official WeChat account Saturday.China’s internet firms are revving up…

PwC vs Capgemini: Both the multi-national companies are on a hiring spree at the moment in India To assist the company’s speed expansion, PwC India and PwC US formed a joint venture to build new global centers in India and expand current ones. Capgemini is actively recruiting! For several opportunities in India, the company is seeking techies. PwC PwC intends to grow its footprint in India over the next five years, adding 30,000 new positions there and perhaps reaching 80,000 workers by 2028. To assist the company’s…

As part of its historic expansion, Air India will purchase 220 planes from Boeing, the White House announced on Tuesday.The Indian airline also has options for an additional 70 Boeing aircraft, for a potential total of 290 jets, the White House official said, AFP reported.Announcing the deal, US President Joe Biden said he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are looking forward to deepening India-US ties.“The United States can and will lead the world in manufacturing. I am proud to announce today the purchase of over 200…

Vin Diesel is on a sequel spree. Even as he is gearing up for the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Fast X this summer, the actor has lined up the fourth instalment of the Riddick franchise. Titled Riddick: Furya, the new film is written and directed by David Twohy. He first collaborated with Diesel on Pitch Black (2000), and continued the hit sci-fi franchise with two sequels, The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) and Riddick (2013). Diesel will star in and produce the new film under his One Race Films…

The spread of Covid-19 led to a surge in demand for Okta’s identity-verification technology. Photo: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg News…

For a stretch of the pandemic, tech companies couldn't hire fast enough. Talent wars broke out in Silicon Valley, with firms vying for software engineers, often lavishing extravagant perks on their new and would-be hires. As profits soared, executives acted as if the party would never end.Now, it has - and workers are bearing the brunt of pullbacks. Nearly 200,000 tech employees have been laid off since the start of 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks job cuts in the sector. Four of the largest tech…

The year of 2023 has been continued with mass layoffs. Major IT giants like Salesforce, Twitter, Amazon, Google…

Finally the trailer of Scream 6 is out and it begins with survivors from Scream 2022 (including Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter, Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter, ) leaving Woodsboro behind and starting a fresh chapter in New York. But they are followed by a very different Ghostface than ever before. Jenna Ortega has recently became a household name after playing a titular role in new Netflix series titled Wednesday. The trailer of Scream 6 also features Hayden Panettiere as Scream 4 fan-favorite Kirby Reed, Courteney…

Photo: Oli Scarff (Getty Images)Amazon reportedly dropped its Bar Raiser program during its hiring process for some candidates, allegedly leading to a quantity-over-quality hiring process. Business Insider reported that last week’s mass layoffs, which amounted to roughly 18,000 Amazon employees, were partly the result of quickly hiring individuals who were not up to par with the company’s former standards.According to Amazon’s website, the Bar Raiser program includes bringing in a third-party individual to oversee the…