Tag: Investment

Foxconn to invest & hire more in India in one year

Foxconn, an Apple supplier, is gearing to double its workforce in India. V Lee, representative of Foxconn in India has announced on social media...

Private and government jobs galore in Assam

Looks like job seekers in Assam will soon be showered with job opportunities and opportunities to earn a livelihood. PepsiCo, the food and beverage...

Bajaj Finserv’s investment in Pune will generate 40,000 jobs

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by Bajaj Finserv and the Government of Maharshtra under which the non-banking finance firm is all...

Variable pay of Wipro’s managers, C-suite not released

Pressure on margins and supply-chain challenges are amongst the reasons why Wipro has decided to hold back variable pay of its employees. It is reported...

PriceLabs gets $30 mn funding, to expand team

Having managed to raise funds to the tune of $30 million, as part of a Series A funding, PriceLabs Inc., the pricing and revenue-management...

Maharashtra signs MoUs, to create over 23K jobs, become data-centre hub

The Government of Maharashtra has signed various memoranda of understanding (MoU) with 15 national and international companies in a bid to bring in investments...

US to spend $150 mn to train locals for H-1B jobs

Looks like the number of Indian tech experts and others who move to work in the US on H-1B visas will soon start dwindling....

HR tech company, Zimyo, raises seed funding of Rs 11 cr

Gurugram-based Zimyo Consulting, which is into HR technology, has raised around Rs 11 crore as seed funding from Singapore-based Beenext Zimyo will use the fund...

Entry-level hiring platform, Able Jobs, receives funding of $1.8 million

Able Jobs, the Bangalore-based entry-level hiring platform, has managed to get funding of about $1.8 million from a funding round, which witnessed participation by...

JP Morgan to spend Rs 17 crore on upskilling 4,800 Indian...

American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company, JP Morgan, will be donating Rs 17 crore, that is, about $2.25 million, to provide...

Livspace lays off 450; WeWork slashes 20% jobs

Bengaluru-based home design and decor startup, Livspace, has reportedly laid off close to 450 employees from its 2,800-strong workforce.  This news of layoff comes...

Corporate health benefits startup raises $US 3.6 million in funding

Health benefits startup, ekincare, has managed to raise $US 3.6 million in a series A funding round, led by a new investor. This takes...

Hallmark Group invests in ScaleneWorks

ScaleneWorks People Solutions, an Indian talent solutions company, has received funds of about a million dollars from the Hallmark Global Group. The funds will be...

Sequoia Capital invests in HR tech startup, Darwinbox

Sequoia Capital India recently led a $15-million round in Darwinbox, an HR tech startup based in Hyderabad. In this series B round, the Company’s...

SoftBank offers $20 million to employees to buy stakes in second...

SoftBank, which invests in startups across the world, desires its employees to buy stakes in its second Vision Fund worth $108 billion. To make...

Employee benefits company, Sodexo, funds startup, Zeta

Zeta, a Bengaluru-based startup offering meal and other group benefits to corporate employees, has received funding worth $60 million from French employee benefits organisation,...

Amazon will invest $700 million on training

Amazon, the e-commerce company, plans to spend $700 million on retraining a third of its workforce in the US in new skills required to...

Over 15000 jobs to be cut at Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank, the German multinational investment bank and financial services company is planning a revamp estimated to cost $5.6 billion, which will see more...

Zeta’s Bhavin Turakhia takes minority stake in PeopleStrong

The two companies will provide a holistic offering to enterprises in the HR technology space.

Employee benefits ROI calculator app to optimise spending

The app helps evaluate the standard of savings and the impact of employee benefit programmes on retention, absenteeism, recruitment and performance too

Talent.io grabs $8.8 million for its recruitment platform

The platform helps companies find full-time employees, interns and freelancers.

AI-based HR Analytics platform Infeedo gets funded on a TV reality...

The AI-based HR analytics platform agreed to give away 5 per cent equity to the team formed by Ameera Shah, managing director and CEO, Metropolis Healthcare, and Vivek Bhargava, CEO, iProspect.

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Innovation in insurance recruitment: Tata AIA’s journey towards high volume, top talent acquisition

Tata AIA Life is a joint venture between Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd and AIA Group. The venture merges Tata's leadership in India with AIA's...

Quest Global: Establishing trust as a go-to partner for the world’s most challenging engineering...

Quest Global is in the business of engineering, to build a brighter future. What makes it different is not what it does but why...

Airbus to expand UK workforce by at least 1,000

Airbus is on the lookout for software, cryogenics, robotics, cyber security and manufacturing engineers. It is also keen to hire project and programme managers...

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Layoffs commence at Michigan Ford plant amidst strike

The strike by auto workers in Detroit against major car companies is causing more problems as it continues for the sixth day. The strike...

Umesh Jadhav is now CHRO, Infiiloom

After a successful five-year tenure with Calderys, where he was group talent and development director, Umesh Jadhav has joined Infiiloom as chief human resources...

WGA reaches tentative deal; 146-day strike nearing end

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the representatives of the studios and streamers have managed to strike a tentative deal or “an agreement...

Hollywood writers’ strike may soon be called off

The strike by the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) that has been on for over 100 days and had brought all production activity in...

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Data analytics and not technology will redefine HR

Q. How satisfying has been your professional journey of 39 years? A. It has been a bagful of mixed experiences. At times I have been...

EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO

Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...

“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...

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