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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
An organization representing app-based transport and delivery workers has approached the Supreme Court, seeking employment benefits from platform aggregation companies. Will the sector survive its biggest challenge yet?
Let me remind you of the promise,” says Shaik Salauddin over the phone. “They promised us jobs. They promised us security. They promised us hope. They called us partners. People left everything—jobs, farming and lives—and came to cities in droves in pursuit of hope. Today, they can’t manage two square meals. And then these companies exploit these people, off-road them, block their IDs when they want. Is this dignity of labour? Is this what you call job creation? Is this employment?”
Salauddin, a cab driver in Hyderabad, is the general secretary of the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT), …
The UAE is looking at its first public listing of the year while Egypt just delivered a big one; OpenAI’s bugging accused has ties to Saudi Arabia; and other updates from the week.
The instant house help business has become the centre of focus and investment at the home services company. But another fight may be brewing in its core business.
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
