Inthree, StoreKing, eHaat and RubanBridge. They are not household names like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal or ShopClues, say. But these are e-commerce companies nonetheless, which are trying to build significant businesses by tapping rural demand in India.

How badly India needs to fix its employment (and unemployment) and jobs data problem can be seen from the furious debates that break out each time a new study on job creation comes out, writes Business Today Editor Prosenjit Datta.

The economy might be showing signs of improvement, but consumer confidence in the metros has actually dipped, according to a RBI survey released recently.

The main problem with the survey is that it gives a glimpse of what the government should be doing - it just does not delve deep enough into the subject. In areas like national security, ethics in AI, and even in creating centres of excellence, it seems to skim the surface.

Recent economic data shows that the Indian economy has put the disruptions caused by the demonetisation of specified banknotes in November 2016 and the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in July 2017 firmly behind it.

The survey of 25 professional forecasters of macro-economic indicators shows that they expect growth to firm up in 2018-19 on the back of higher private consumption and improvement in investment. Growth will be driven by manufacturing and to a lesser extent by services.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want to change anything about the way Facebook collects data, tracks its users, and stores data unless he is forced by law and government authorities to do so.

The problem is that the government expects the bidder to pay for both the good and the bad. And also take over a huge debt burden. For domestic airlines like SpiceJet, Vistara or Go Air, only the slots are valuable and some parts of the fleet. Guaranteeing the airline staff jobs for a full year is probably not something any bidder is looking forward to. 

The essential worry for the Southern States (and of course West Bengal) is that they may be penalized for their better performance on population control and other social indicators.

A report on machine bias highlighted how many of the programmes used in US to decide on bail, sentencing and for identifying future criminals was biased against African American citizens.

The Indian economic growth could get hit three ways because of the new American tariff barriers. The first is simply through the steps the US takes directly against India.

In volatile times, the focus is on investing in the right instruments, say experts at the Money Today award ceremony.

If India is to have a data protection act doubling up as a privacy mechanism, the EU GDPR is probably our best bet.

The US President Donald Trump has threatened to wage a trade war against countries he perceives to have an unfair trade advantage to correct the trade deficit of his country.

The newspapers had reported that Cambridge Analytica illegally harvested data on 50 million Facebook users, and used them in helping Donald Trump win his election.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley squarely blamed the bank management and also the auditors, internal and external. But he also pointed to the regulator, making a comment that supervisory agencies had to introspect about mechanisms they could put in place so that stray incidents didn't become the norm.

Many have explicitly stated that Bitcoins have no legal status as currency, but allow its trading and tax gains out of it. They also allow it to be converted into the country's currency through mutual consent between two parties, without giving an official standing to it. In a sense, it is treated like other precious commodities like gold, silver or diamonds.

Despite troubles, the private sector and foreign banks stole the show.

After the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over the reins, the feeling that the country is not creating enough jobs has only increased.

Over the past year and a half, discontent in the farming community has been rising across the country