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If you want to get ahead in business, sit down and pick up a book. Warren Buffett spends 80% of his day reading. Bill Gates reads for an hour each night before going to bed. And Mark Cuban credits part of his success to the fact that he is willing to read more than anyone else. advertisement advertisement “Leaders are readers,” says author and syndicated radio host Dave Ramsey, who reads at least one book a week and gives five of his favorite books to every new team member as part of the onboarding process. “It’s in my DNA to always want to grow as a leader. We want our team to always be learning and growing, too,” he says. Business boils down to personal interactions, and exposure to new ideas challenges you and expands your understanding of viewpoints, says Joan Fallon, CEO of the biotech company Curemark, who reads a book a week. “Reading forces me to stop thinking about my day-to-day life for long enough that I often find a new … [Read more...] about Why You Should Read 50 Books This Year (And How To Do It)

Bill Gates says he reads around 50 books every year—when he isn’t working to end malaria and malnutrition or, say, reinvent the toilet—and each year, he also chooses a handful of the most interesting books to recommend. Here are Gates’ five top choices for the end of the year. advertisement advertisement These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore Spanning centuries of American history, this book “is the most honest account of the American story I’ve ever read, and one of the most beautifully written,” Gates writes in a blog post. Lepore, a history professor at Harvard and New Yorker contributor, writes about basic contradictions like the fact that America was founded on principles of freedom while using slaves; many slaves fought for the British because they recognized that they had a better chance of freedom if the British won. The book shares many little-known facts, Gates says; for example, between 1830 and … [Read more...] about Bill Gates solves your gift problems: Here are his top 5 books for the holidays

Damon MaddenThe payments industry is evolving, and so are consumer spending habits and expectations. On one hand POS credit transactions grew by 29.8% y-o-y, while debit card swipes increased by 14.4%, taking market share from cash payments. On the other hand, UPI transactions continued to witness increasing merchant acceptance and crossed 100 million users, allowing the e-payments ecosystem to thrive.In that sense, 2019 has been yet another significant year for the payments industry in India and the pace of evolution here has gone into overdrive. And it is expected to only get faster. This makes it critical for payments companies, banks and other players in the space to anticipate what’s next—now.Close Unfortunately, fraudsters have also been keeping pace with these developments, constantly in search of weaknesses to exploit. The latest RBI report quoted that the banking system in India detected frauds worth Rs 71,500 crore in the financial year 2018-19. related news … [Read more...] about 2020 fraud predictions for the Indian digital payment ecosystem

Women and viewers from non-metros are driving online consumption. And there's data to prove it.According to a report released by video streaming platform Hotstar on December 10, women in 2019 are consuming 3.2 times more entertainment than last year and 45 percent of the total entertainment consumption comes from women.The 'India watch Report' further pointed out that men's share has dropped from 58 percent in 2018 to 55 percent this year.Close In fact, women were hooked on to cricket more than men this year. related news Panipat looks for a turnaround, Vidyut Jammwal's Commando 3 is profitable Ramya Krishnan nails it in Queen, promises to narrate life and times of late Jayalalithaa Women are watching 3.5 times more cricket this year as compared to 2018. The growth in time spent for men is 2.2 times.Another interesting fact the report highlighted was the video consumption by women in Maharashtra and Odisha which has grown 5.5 times compared … [Read more...] about Binge-watching catching on in non-metros; women viewers beat men in cricket viewership

This is the second installment in  The Design of Y2K , a series telling the stories behind the most influential products of the late 1990s and early 2000s.  advertisement advertisement In 1996, the burgeoning internet service provider American Online, also known as AOL, was growing fast. The company had just implemented a radical new pricing model: unlimited internet for just $20 per month, rather than a price-per-minute system. User numbers exploded, and AOL’s engineers were fighting to keep up with demand. Eric Bosco joined the company a week before the unlimited plan rolled out. With the rest of the team busy building capacity, his boss assigned the young engineer a project that was still just an idea on a white board: AOL Instant Messenger. Bosco became part of a small, largely autonomous team, a kind of “skunkworks” within AOL, that was building the ambitious messaging functionality. They were led by the vision of Barry Appelman, who … [Read more...] about AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today