Kerala Superstar actor Mammooty introduced the new Pappu Zebra, the mascot of Kerala Police’s road safety awareness campaign in 3D animation through his Facebook page. The mascot created by Nandan Pillai was initially launched on June 3, 2009, and was so successful it won the International Media Safety Award for the best Road Safety awareness…
Rihanna, one of the best-selling music artist worldwide, has teamed up with LVMH to create luxury clothing and footwear brand, making the largest luxury group by revenues. Luxury brands like Christian Dior, Dom Perignon Champagne and Sephora owner said the new brand of ready-to-wear shoes and accessories would be named Fenty ready for spring…
The Way We Eat Now is an essential reading for all, as this books scans through climate change, shrinking biodiversity, the global rise of agro-industrial food complex and our nutrition and eating habits evolving around diet. The French invented lean cuisine. But now a push for quantity over quality in our food systems and the…
Tencent and Alibaba, China’s biggest technology groups have been granted milestone licences by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to launch digital banks in Hong Kong threatening traditional HSBC and Standard Chartered banks. Xiaomi the world’s fourth largest smartpone maker and Ping An the world’s largest insurer, also was included in what city’s banking regulator’s called …
Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce group, is overhauling its business model of a fast-growing subsidiary in an attempt to offer a complete international service which can challenge Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer. Trudy Dai, President of Alibaba’s wholesale marketplaces division AliExpress, which sells goods from Chinese retailers to customers in more than 150 countries –…
Whistle blower Hemanth Kappanna, an Indian engineer whose research helped to expose Volkswagen’s conspiracy to lie about its diesel cars’ emissions, was fired by US “General Motors” as part of a strategic transformation. His severance package consisted of two months’ salary and a one-way ticket to India. Kappanna returned to Bengaluru as he could not…
Tencent suddenly pulled the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds mobile game in China, migrating gamers to the less catchy and more politically correct Heping Iingying, or Elite Force for Peace. Tencent is ditching its blockbuster PUBG, one of the money spinners, on the mainland, where it has failed to win commercial licences for many of its latest top…
Mussomeli, Southern Sicily is putting 100 empty rundown properties with another 400 to expected to follow, up for sale online for €1, after rural residents abandoned homes to migrate to city. Some of the homes are small, but offer stunning views across the Sicilian countryside and have multiple bedrooms. One of the condition the buyer…
Facebook has chosen London as the centre for a push into payments on its WhatsApp messaging service monetising fast-growing platform. The App which has 1.5bn users globally, will expand its workforce by a quarter and hiring of over 100 people with most additional staff will be in London and Dublin. Facebook said it chose…
In rural India internet usage is turbocharged by lower data prices, ecommerce growth is now the fastest outside India’s eight tier one cities, and industry rivals like Amazon which has committed over £5bnand local rivals are competing fiercely for a new wave of customers. Young entrepreneur Ananda Mishra founded his small ecommerce business Grozip in…