The Echo Dot (3rd Gen) priced at Rs 4,999 is a good buy and festive special price of Rs 2,999 makes the deal even better.

We believe the market wants to speak the language of skills but it cannot and is left to speak the language of degrees, and there has to be a truly common language for skills, says Degreed CEO David Blake.

After launching Kindle ebook readers, Fire Tablet and the Fire TV Stick in the past, Amazon India has now launched its popular voice-controlled speakers. India is the fourth country where Amazon has launched its Echo smart speakers.

Chris Anderson is perennially in search of innovative ways to inspire mankind through the TED platform.

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Star India Chairman & CEO, Uday Shankar, is known for his out of the box strategies. Will they pay off?

Naresh Gupta, managing partner at Bang In The Middle, and Sumanto Chattopadhyay, executive creative director at Ogilvy South Asia, debate on whether Indian advertising agencies should go to Cannes or not.

The US Senate prepared for a last ditch effort to avoid a historic lapse in the government's borrowing authority, a breach that President Barack Obama has said could lead to default and deliver a damaging blow to the global economy.

A month of combat in the US Congress over government spending showed signs on Monday of giving way to a Senate deal to reopen shuttered federal agencies and prevent an economically damaging default on federal debt.

All the specs touted by the phones might make great reading, but they would all come to nought without the applications to ensure a good user experience.

As of now there are close to 90,000 tablet-specific applications for the iPad. While there is no official figure from Google about Android OS apps, guesstimates put the figure at some 3,500 apps (well, they're primarily phone apps that also run comfortably on tablets).