While companies have already started gearing towards data localisation, the transitioning cost has always been the talking point

The WeWork IPO debacle has not hit the optimism of Indian co-working players

India remains the world's third-largest start-up hub after the US and China with nearly 52 start-ups having the potential to become unicorns.

In spite of growing challenges, information technology majors recorded the biggest jump in average market cap between October 2018 and September 2019.

CloudWalker, which imported and retailed LED TVs on Flipkart's platform, dragged  the company to the NCLT for non-payment towards procured imported TVs as per the supply agreement

The addition of seven unicorns in 2019 till August, takes the total number of unicorns to 24, making India the country with the third highest number of unicorns

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

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

Companies are increasing their investment and expanding their approaches to focus on vigilance (detecting patterns that may indicate or even predict risk events) and resilience (the capacity to rapidly contain and reduce the impact of risk events) through Continuous Control Monitoring

Interestingly, the action taken against the complaint filed was that there was conciliation with an undertaking and apology by the respondent

In 2012, a US whistleblower, Jay Palmer, alleged Infosys was misusing the short term B1 visas to send low-cost workers from India to work in the US.

According to Shriram Subramanian Founder and MD, Ingovern Research Services, a proxy advisory firm, the more pressing issue that the letter has brought to the forefront is auditors being prevented to do their job

India must aim higher than $5 trillion. The most important thing is to improve the ICT infrastructure because 5G will not only support another G but also other verticals, said Arogyaswami Paulraj

The company plans to invest the fund into expanding from existing 1.2 million homes to 15 million homes in the next 15 months

Mindtree's BFSI vertical grew 2.8 per cent sequentially, while travel and hospitality and hi-tech and media verticals grew by 3.3 per cent and 3.8 per cent, respectively. However, growth in retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG) and manufacturing remained flat

Wipro, the fourth largest IT company, has pegged the third quarter growth to be in the range of $2,065-2,106 million (or sequential growth of 0.8 per cent to 2.8 per cent)

PhonePe CEO said that Walmart is now looking at the company differently in terms of its potential size and opportunities as to how they may work with them across different markets.

With the company working towards listing in a definitive time frame and Walmart bolstering the company's compliance standards to prepare for an IPO, it would not be surprising to see another big name on the board

Earlier, the Embassy was eyeing exit through the IPO for nearly $2.7 billion for 70 per cent of its stake, while WeWork was looking at a piece-meal deal of 51 per cent for just over $1 billion

There have been 412 resignations during the first six months of calendar year 2019 compared to 606 for the 2018, shows NSE data