Steve Jobs once said “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come…” As far as one can remember, movies always have had a special place in our life. Movies appeal to us, provoke us and quite often, …
Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the maker of ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Candy Crush’, for $68.7Bn is one the biggest-ever tech and gaming industry deals ever. Microsoft becomes the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. Driven by the pandemic-induced uptick, gaming has taken centrestage today. The deal marks a bold bet on …
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally forced a hard reset to the way we live and work. As organizations navigated their way through the pandemic, digital transformation continues to get significantly accelerated. For many organizations, digital transformation has implied rapidly scaling-up their digital journeys, and fostering change, either at the core of the enterprise, or at …
The COVID-19 pandemic has truly tested the resilience of global supply chains. Over the past year and more, the pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in a complex, and inter-connected global economy. The pandemic forced enterprises to adapt and adjust their operations to dynamically respond to ever evolving demand and supply requirements. Flex operates one of the …
Beating earnings expectations for its Q2 2021, Facebook Inc registered total revenue of $29.1 billion, a 56 per cent year-over-year increase. Facebook’s record performance was driven by the digital transformation that was accelerated during the pandemic along with the company’s long-term investments in tools and products to help businesses make the shift online. Creators, adding …
As a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic swept across the globe, it heralded a period of accelerated transformational change everywhere. Amidst all the uncertainty and ambiguity, in an everything-from-home context with ever-increasing blurry lines between work, learn and unwind, audio has found its moment. It is not all about listening to music only. Across my tech savvy social …
As India grapples with the second Covid wave amid seismic shift in the way people work and learn, this year and beyond will be a major inflection point for the user-generated content on smartphones in the country, a new report said on Monday. From the growth of 5G-capable devices to evolving consumer trends around OTT, …
Amidst the pandemic, and especially the everything-from-home year, smartphone gaming took off spectacularly in India. For consumers trying to deal with the prolonged social isolation alongwith all the anxiety and ambiguity of the last year, mobile gaming provided a creative outlet. From my vantage point, I know of loved ones and peers who took to …
I have been on the Clubhouse App since late January, listening mostly to the daily, The Good Time Show, hosted by the husband-and-wife team of Sriram Krishnan and Aarthi Ramamurthy. In particular, just like anyone out there, after much striving, I was able to dive-in into the record-breaking discussion involving Elon Musk and (the rather …
India’s two biggest online retailers, Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon, are going head-to-head with their own shopping events: Big Billion Days and the Great Indian Festival. Deep-pocketed JioMart, which is owned by Asia’s wealthiest billionaire, is looking for market share, too. This year is particularly important as the world reels from economic fallout caused by the coronavirus …