Month: March 2024

Dabur India’s Harkawal Singh joins RSPL Group as vice president – global marketing

Harkawal Singh's innings at Dabur India began as senior brand manager where he orchestrated product design, communication strategy, research testing and 'go-to-market' implementation for the critical re-launch in Odomos Mostiquito repellent Range in the Home Care portfolio.

Harkawal Singh has joined RSPL Group as vice president – global marketing.

AI race: Meta building AI model to power entire video ecosystem

The Mark Zuckerberg-led company said the FTC has failed to meet its burden to present evidence establishing a relevant antitrust market and proving that it has included all reasonable substitute services in its market definition. (Representative image by Dima Solomin via Unsplash)

Meta has been accelerating its AI drive, including adding AI functions into products across its platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

CARS24 to increase female representation in its workforce by 50 percent in 2024

In addition to initiatives at its corporate headquarters, CARS24 is actively recruiting and training women for frontline roles as well. Currently, CARS24 has openings for various roles including customer experience, operations, marketing, product, front line staff etc. (Image source: Moneycotnrol)

At present, women and LGBTQ individuals constitute less than 20 percent of CARS24’s employee base. This pattern is similar across the automotive industry.

After Facebook and Instagram, LinkedIn sees brief outage

March 5 saw the global outage of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. Following the outage, as per multiple reports, parent company Meta’s chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg net worth declined by $ 2.79 billion, in a day, to hit $ 176 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. (Image source: Unsplash)

According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, there were 48,000 reports of outages related to LinkedIn in the US.

Social Panga appoints Ruksheen Palia as vice president – business and strategy

Ruksheen Palia who holds over 12 years of industry experience joins the team from VMLY&R India, where she served as the business lead for various accounts, one of her key accounts being Unilever.

Ruksheen Palia’s new role at Social Panga involves leading the agency’s growth initiatives, developing strategic plans, and fostering innovations for Mumbai hide out. Additionally, she will oversee the development of comprehensive business strategies and identify new market opportunities.

Hyundai announces MoU between Navjyoti NGO and BluSmart ; 250 women drivers to get employed in Delhi NCR

The MoU was exchanged between Anirudh Arun, Co-Founder & CEO - BluSmart Fleet and Gurusharan Khurana, President - ‘Navjyoti Transforming Lives & Careers Society’ NGO, in the presence of Puneet Anand, AVP & Vertical Head, Corporate Affairs, Hyundai Motor India and Soon Sang Hong, Domain Advisor, Corporate Affairs, Hyundai Motor India.

HMIF and Navjyoti will support the participants to obtain a permanent driving license and the graduating students will be certified by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) post successful completion of training and assessments

Google’s former software engineer Linwei Ding charged with AI trade secrets theft

Financial Times reported on Google’s possible revenue shake-up, stating, "Google is looking at options including adding certain AI-powered search features to its premium subscription services, which already offer access to its new Gemini AI assistant in Gmail and Docs, according to three people with knowledge of its plans." (Representative Image: Brett Jordan via Unsplash)

Linwei Ding had stepped down from his position at Google on December 26, 2023. Three days after his resignation, the officials at Google had learnt that he had presented himself as the chief executive officer (CEO) at one of the Chinese companies at an investor conference in Beijing, China.

BARC India’s Derrick Gray steps down

During his stint at Numeris as the senior director - audience measurement science, Derric`k Gray built and developed the Data Science Centre of Excellence within Numeris. Successfully implemented several improvements through intelligence and insights developed through the team resulting in process improvements, increased methodological rigor and financial savings to organisation.

Derrick Gray began his career at HEPCOE Credit Union as senior marketing analyst and went on to work across Canadian Armed Forces, and Numeris.