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In a SaaS or subscription environment, there’s almost nothing more important than the quality of customer service (or “customer success,” or “the customer experience”–I have no dog in the fight over which of ...

More than ever, islands -- and the resources beneath them -- are the focus of geopolitical tensions between nations around the world. The biggest disputes range from the Arctic to Croatia to north of Samoa, and some of t...

British high-street cafe Pret A Manger revealed today that it sold one million cups of coffee a week during the 52 weeks to January 1, 2015. Overall, the cafe's sales rocketed 16% year-over-year to £594 million ($884 m...

There are three options: NEFT, RTGS and IMPS. Here's what they do.

Johannesburg

So, this is fun. Via Zero Hedge comes this report from a Swiss website, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). It seems that a Swiss pension fund tried to evade negative rates on deposits by withdrawing a very large amou...

Private equity legend David Bonderman is incredibly busy right now -- too busy, some worry. Bonderman runs a giant $50 billion+ private equity firm, TPG Capital. Here's some of what he's up to: Join the conversation ab...

It is the longest-term goal that one saves for and a periodical review will keep up with the ever-changing inflation

Astana (Kazakhstan)

Boosting manufacturing and laying the foundations for a better infrastructure go together

The CEO of Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance says open architecture may not increase insurance penetration

The RBI norms towards targeted marginal lending for the small farmer is a structural solution to aid them--unlike bailout packages, which provide only short-term relief

Experience shows that when public sector enterprises increase capex, so do the states, given the complementary investment activities between the two

Unseasonal rains and the prospects of a below-normal monsoon may hurt rural cash flows and lead to a deterioration in asset quality

Bigger iPhones stole the show in the previous quarter. Now, all eyes are on Apple Watch.          

UltraTech's investor presentation highlights low infrastructure spending and subdued housing demand has continuously affected the sector, with a low 67% capacity utilization

The average Olympian only makes $20,000 a year, half of the $40,000 cost to go to Summer Olympics in Rio in 2016. The newly launched TeamUSARegistry.com, the crowdfunding website of Team USA, hopes to educate and entice ...

The gig: Melissa Kieling, 38, is the co-founder and chief executive of PackIt, which makes foldable, freezable bags to keep food and beverages cold. Last year, PackIt was named one of the fastest-growing privately held c...

Right now, people in markets are worried about one big thing: liquidity. But there's a problem: no one is exactly sure how to define or measure it. This week, Peter Hooper and his team at Deutsche Bank wrote a big report...

Revolutionizing healthcare will take more than fancy technology, data and analytics. We need to build a movement.

President Barack Obama is surprised that Donald Trump is still sticking around the White House Correspondents' Dinner. "Donald Trump is here...still," Obama joked during his remarks at the annual dinner in Washington on ...

Rarely do you see the CEO of a $180 billion company care much about its warehouse workers.