Google has pending competition cases, not just in India but in other jurisdictions like the EU. Some start-ups have expressed concern about the tech giant’s in-house billing system.

The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) filed a plea against Google’s user choice billing system (UCB) in the Delhi High Court. The court today asked the Competition Commission of India to look into ADIF’s complaint by April 26.

April 26 is the day when the new billing system goes into effect.

Rahul Singh, Associate Professor, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, helps us understand the dynamics between start-ups and Google. We also talk about the possibility of tech giants like Google being monitored. On the issue of monitoring Google, Singh says, "What we should bear in mind is that action can be taken only as per law." Listen in.

The golden boy of Indian cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, turns 50 this week.  The master blaster seems to be entering the 50s club in great style with his brand valuation soaring, even though it is ten years since he retired. But how about those in the corporate world? Where do they find themselves as they hit the 50s? Is there anxiety and thoughts about retirement? Or is the golden age the best time at work? 

In this episode of People @ Work , our host Kamal Karanth, who too turned 50 this year, speaks to well known fintech professional Shinjini Kumar, who like Sachin appears to be enjoying the 50s having just co-founded Salt, an app focussed on helping women to manage their money. Listen in as they discuss how to negotiate the golden age at work.

Depositors’ paradise? Will FY24 favour depositors as the fight for liquidity gets real? Karthik Srinivasan, group head, financial sector ratings, ICRA has the answers.

Capital gains tax is again in the news. It is because of a news published in a foreign news agency which says that the government is working on a mechanism to tweak the tax. However, later the Finance Ministry denied the presence of any such regulation. The impact, however, was clearly visible in the stock market and among investors.

What exactly is the capital gains tax? How will it affect investors’ sentiments? bussinessline’s Shishir Sinha discusses the tax with Sunil Gidwani, Partner, Nangia Andersen LLP. Listen in. Read the full story here.

The web is an ever changing world and what you learnt yesterday is no longer relevant today. Take videos. Formats keep changing.  Just as you learn reels something else will come along. In this episode of Digital Gadfly, which explores all things digital from the lens of marketers,  host Shubho Sengupta speaks to Ankoor Dasguupta, Vice President, Content, Social and Creative, Arm Worldwide to learn how we can keep reinventing our professional digital selves. Ankoor is a digital immigrant driven by passion and he shares valuable tips on becoming a digital ninja.

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Be it a child’s education or marriage, every parent dreams of creating a corpus to fulfill such goals. While options such as Public Provident Fund, Fixed Deposits and Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana are popular for such needs, mutual funds too offer children’s funds, which are marketed as a good product fit for such purposes.

Children’s funds, along with retirement funds, are sub-categories of solution-oriented schemes. The children’s funds category has total assets under management (AUM) of about Rs 14,244 crore spread across 10 funds.

Tune in to the podcast to understand the features of children‘s funds, the process of investing, and a few other key aspects.

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Start-ups and sustainability are topics that everyone is talking about these days. Can start-ups help promote sustainability? And, how do we go about it?
That is a question that even the Indian government is focussing on. The government has set up a panel to discuss the matter at the G20 summit. This task force is called the “G20 Start Up 20 Engagement Group Task Force on Sustainability” and it is the first time such a panel has been set up at the global summit.

In this episode of bl podcasts, V Nivedita talks to Vineet Rai, Founder and Chairperson of
Aavishkaar Group, who is a member of the task force, to know how start-ups and sustainability can be interlinked.

What are the different types of instruments that banks have a dispensation with respect to how they can play around with investments? One of the reasons why the investment book of a bank came to limelight was whatever happened globally. In India, do you ever foresee a situation where possibly the investment losses of a bank can wipe out the net profits at all? how aligned is Indian accounting standards to global standards as far as treating investment book is concerned? And is there any worry at all for Indian banks if we have to adopt the global norms?

Ajit Velonie, Director, Crisil Rating answers all of them. Listen in.

In this interview, Ravindra Sannareddy, Founder & MD, Sri City Pvt Ltd, talks about where Sri City stands today in terms of the multinational firms and home-grown majors it has attracted to invest in the private integrated business city, the pains, and pangs of developing a city from scratch, and how he had to pivot in the early years due to the 2008 financial crises, to move from being an export zone to becoming a zone with a domestic tariff area as well.

He also talks about how Sri City has become the second-largest cluster of Japanese industries and will emerge as the largest manufacturer of air-conditioners in the country.

Do listen in to the interview.