The report, 'The road ahead: Cyber security in 2020 and beyond', states that recent cyber espionage activities related to the BRI have targeted many governments, transportation, energy, defense, space, media and telecommunications sectors.

Beyond the unicorns, the Japanese have spread their wings further. Between 2014 and the first half of 2019, over 105 Indian start-ups have received capital from Japanese backers spread across 157 deals, a new report from DataLabs, the research wing of Inc42 Media states

While online sales rocked, there was less encouraging news from the offline channel. Offline sales continued to face challenges with a 2.6 per cent Y-o-Y decline in the third quarter of 2019

Real estate distress fund: The fund would also bag investments from institutions such as LIC and SBI, which would expand the corpus to Rs 25,000 crore

Scheepbouwer wouldn't say that India has underperformed (its revenues are still modest given its continued investments in people and TV campaigns over the years). But he does acknowledge that foreign investors perhaps were oversold on the India story.

According to a report, private equity poured in $1.1 billion in warehousing space in India between the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2019, as against zero investment in 2015 and 2016 combined

The slowdown in housing sales is largely due to fewer new launches, lack of buyer confidence in older under construction projects and liquidity crunch in the market

ShopClues appears to have lost out in India's fierce e-tailing battleground dominated by Flipkart and Amazon; while Flipkart and Myntra had a 36.6% market share in FY2018, Amazon had 31.2 %; ShopClues accounted for just 1.6% of India's e-tailing pie.

Cognizant plans to simplify the way it works, lower its cost structure and fund investments. The company would remove 10,000 to 12,000 mid-to-senior level employees from their current roles.

Whistleblower allegations fall in four buckets - questionable accounting standards; ethics of top management; disclosure standards; and ethnic slur

Brian Humphries took over as the Chief Executive Officer of IT company Cognizant in April 2019. While the company is based out of New Jersey, Humphries visits India every few months. The reason isn't hard to see - Cognizant has 2,00,000 employees in India. The country is also emerging as a large business opportunity. Business Today's Goutam Das caught up with Humphries on his most recent visit. Edited excerpts:

In our cover story this week, some of India's consumer giants, including HUL, Reliance Retail, Amazon and Walmart-Flipkart, are vying with each other for the kirana's undivided attention

India's digital drive is one of the key drivers for the data centre market in the country, said Paul Henaghan, Senior Vice President of Data Centre Solutions, APJ, Dell Technologies

With its smart bus brand, Intrcity, RailYatri follows an OYO model - while the company is responsible for customer acquisition and owns the experience, it doesn't own the asset

When Airbnb was founded in 2008, the founders struggled to raise money because back then, venture capitalists had the same questions and doubts around trust.

Hotelier Kapil Chopra launched The Postcard Hotel, a venture-backed company, in Dec 2018. The company is aiming at opening 50 hotels in five years.

The survey also ranked industries that could be disrupted by emerging technologies. IoT, for instance, is expected to disrupt retail, telecom-media-technology (TMT) and automobiles.

In a world where artificial intelligence is increasingly telling us what to do or how to think, humans must try and stay in control

The company doesn't sell directly to bars. It markets via distributors. A well thought out distributor strategy has now made the company stand out in many parts of the southern market.

One of the problems with AI algorithms is that they are opaque. It is difficult to understand how they arrive at a decision.