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Doctor struggled to diagnose a family member's disease, his 'elderly maid' did it in 10 seconds
Cyriac Abby Philips, popularly known as The Liver Doc on social media, said that he was frustrated when all the tests he carried out came back negative. '17 years of medical school and a Harrisons on my lap and my elderly maid got it in like 10 seconds,' he said.
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Vir Sanghvi after getting his new passport in 24 hours: 'How fortunate we are in India'
'In few countries will you get a new passport in a couple of days,' author and anchor Vir Sanghvi said. 'At least in Delhi, the passport offices have actually got more citizen-friendly over the last year.'
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After Bengaluru event, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke calls India his 'new home away from home'
Thomas Dohmke also shared a picture clicked on Brigade Road at almost the exact spot where he had taken another picture in 2008. 'Sixteen years later, I had to stop by Brigade Road on my way back home,' the GitHub CEO wrote on X.
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Elon Musk had sex with an employee, an ex-intern, and asked another staffer to have his babies: WSJ
The former SpaceX intern, who is 20 years younger than Elon Musk, told the publication that she had met him when she was still in college. She had approached the him with ideas for improving SpaceX and the conversation had led to a date, 'which led to a kiss, and eventually sex'.
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Elon Musk's threat to ban Apple devices over partnership with OpenAI divides X users
Elon Musk also said that company visitors 'will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage'. He was referring to an enclosure that blocks electromagnetic waves used by wireless communications such as mobile phones, bluetooth, and the internet.
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Billionaire Warren Buffett says developing this skill can 'make a major difference' in your bank balance
The Berkshire Hathaway chairperson also shared that he had taken up a public speaking course whose fee was about Rs 83,000. 'The impact that the class had on my life was huge,' Warren Buffett said.
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Noida techie moves to Bengaluru, rents a 3-BHK flat for Rs 80,000. He has only 1 regret
'I respect my time more than money,' 26-year-old solutions engineer Ashish Jha said. 'When I moved from Noida to Bengaluru, I had made up my mind that I would cut the daily commute time as much as possible since in my previous job, I had to travel from Noida to Delhi.'
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This 92-year-old just became one of US' richest self-made women. Joan Payden is worth $700 million
Speaking about being recruited by a reputed wealth management company in the US during her early days, Joan Payden said, 'I was hired at a 25 percent discount because I didn’t know the difference between a bond and stock.'
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Vishal Kal from Netflix's 'Indian Matchmaking' says his US firm laid him off to hire 'Indians from India'
Vishal Kalyanasundaram claimed he even offered to move back to India to save his job but was informed that the company was replacing the entire team with that of 'Indians from India' with much lower salaries.
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Mark Cuban turned 300 of his employees into millionaires after selling a firm for $5.7 billion
Mark Cuban said, 'In every business I’ve sold I’ve paid out bonuses to every employee that was there more than a year.' The Shark Tank judge also said that except one, none of the other companies has had a layoff right after the sale.
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'New continent, same result': Sachin Tendulkar after India beat Pakistan by 6 runs in New York
'T20 may be a batters’ game, but in New York, bowlers were the Apple of our eyes today. What a thrilling match!' Sachin Tendulkar said. He was present at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium stands for the India vs Pakistan T20 World Cup match on Sunday.
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India vs Pakistan: Delhi Police's tweet on 'broken televisions' after T20 World Cup match win is viral
The post on X, which hasn't received a response from the NYPD yet, gathered more than 8.5 lakh views and over 41,000 likes. It also left fans in splits.
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'You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room,' says tech CEO John Lombard
John Lombard suggested business leaders employ people that they think are smarter than them. He said that some of the best decisions that organisations have ever made happened when people challenged the status quo within the company. 'And it's those smart people that will often do that.'
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang on work-life balance: 'I work from the moment I wake up, 7 days a week'
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang wakes up at 5 am. He is one of the longest-serving tech CEOs and the 14th richest person in the world with a net worth of $105.8 billion, according to Forbes.
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Indian-origin Tesla director Ashok Elluswamy says 'Elon Musk is critical for Tesla's success'. See note
'Would like to clarify that this is my personal note that I decided to write to explain Elon's importance to Tesla. While the timing is partly in light of the shareholder vote, I truly believe everything I wrote,' Ashok Elluswamy wrote. Tesla shareholders will vote on Musk's $56 billion pay package, and the re-election of directors, including Musk's brother, at their annual meeting scheduled on June 13.
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'Without him...': Elon Musk praises Indian-origin Tesla director Ashok Elluswamy. 5 points
Ashok Elluswamy earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the College of Engineering in Chennai. He has been working with Tesla for about 10 years.
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Feeling lonely at work? Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has a 'brilliant' solution: 'It worked so well'
CEO Brian Chesky shared that what had started off as a productivity strategy at Airbnb turned into something more in time. He said, 'Sometimes it’s just hard for one person to be a unicorn, to be able to do everything, but if you could create...
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Anupam Mittal says investors will see independent judiciary, EC as 'a very positive sign'
India’s stock markets have seemingly shrugged off the shock of the election results –- overcoming early concerns of the BJP failing to secure a majority on its own –- and have rebounded on renewed confidence in the continuation of the NDA coalition government.
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Japan launches dating app to improve birth rate. Elon Musk approves: 'I'm glad'
'At risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. This would be a great loss for the world,' Elon Musk had tweeted in 2022.
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Delhi water crisis: Amid heatwave, slum residents rush after tanker as taps dry up. Video
But the daily rush to collect water, especially amid the ongoing heatwave, is not a peaceful process and fights among residents are common. 'There are fights everyday,' a resident said. Moreover, temperatures in the region have been more than 43 degrees Celsius in the last few days. More than 60 people have died due to the heatwave.
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke visits India, shares pic from 2008 Bengaluru trip: 'I love this country'
Thomas Dohmke is scheduled to attend GitHub Constellation 2024 on June 12 in Bengaluru. The event is the company's in-person developer conference celebrating the best of the Indian developer community and to connect on topics such as AI, collaboration, community, and security.
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Nike's former HR head says job seekers must have this one line in their resume: 'Really helpful to...'
While hiring managers will ultimately decide if the candidate's experience is relevant, but 'you’re trying to share as much information that helps locate you in the context of your professional journey in as short a period of time as possible,' James Hudson said.
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Bill Gates to write about 'getting kicked out of college' and starting Microsoft in 'Source Code'
'Over the years, I’ve often been asked about my upbringing, my time at Harvard, and co-founding the company (Microsoft). Those questions made me realise that people might be interested in my journey and the factors that influenced it,' Bill Gates said on writing his 'origin story'.
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Bill Gates, Warren Buffett have McDonald's 'Gold Card' that allows them to get free food for life
Billionaire Warren Buffett is known to enjoy the simplicity and convenience of the fast-food giant while Bill Gates has in a recent blogpost called cheeseburgers his 'favorite food'.
