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Meesho tightens returns process to save costs, triggers seller protests

Meesho undertook changes to its product returns policy following feedback from its third-party logistics partners, the sources added. Returns comprise a big cost area for e-commerce players in India as it adds to logistics expenditure.

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India to be model of global science, tech and innovation by 2047: CSIR chief

Kalaiselvi, the first woman director general of CSIR, established by the government in 1942, was in Bhopal to participate in the 8th India International Science Festival (IISF)-2022 which began on Saturday.

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Elon Musk says higher priced Twitter subscription won't carry ads

The billionaire also said that ads are "too frequent on Twitter and too big," and that steps will be taken to address those issues in coming weeks.

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Campus blues: mass layoffs put IITians on edge

Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Goldman Sachs have operations in India and also are regular recruiters at top Indian campuses including IITs. This year, both Microsoft and Amazon are hiring fewer numbers from the campuses, according to multiple placement sources.

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Tech layoffs shock young workers. The older people? Not so much

Microsoft said this week it planned to cut 10,000 jobs, or roughly 5% of its workforce. And Friday morning, Google's parent company Alphabet said it planned to cut 12,000 jobs, or about 6% of its total. Their cuts followed big layoffs at other tech companies such as Meta, Amazon and Salesforce.

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Big-tech companies should share revenue with digital news publishers: I&B Secretary

​In a message sent to the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) conference on Friday, Apurva Chandra said Australia, Canada, France and European Union have already taken the initiative through their legislatures and strengthened their competition commissions to ensure a fair split of revenue among the creators of news content and the aggregators.

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'Devastated, shocked': sacked Google employees left distraught as layoffs impact 12,000

Google parent Alphabet on January 20 announced that it plans to cut about 12,000 jobs or 6% of its global workforce.

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Yellow.ai deploys 30% of global generative AI bots domestically

While markets like the US are mostly using GenAI for customer support in a bid to cut costs, India Inc. is using them as an opportunity to g...