Sluggish exports leave India needing to curry favour with investors

More like these, please IN THE spring of 1991, Indian officials desperate to fend off a balance-of-payments crunch secretly airlifted 20 tonnes of gold confiscated from smugglers into the vaults of UBS, a Swiss bank. That crisis prompted liberalising reforms that helped integrate India into the global economy. By 2013 India’s exports as a percentage […]

5 reasons why the sluggish robot revolution is about to speed up

Chris McGrath/Getty Image To date, the robot revolution has been slow-moving due to the amount of time and money required to develop industrial robots. In order for robots to become fixtures in our everyday lives, they need to become affordable, socially accepted, and regulated legally.  It has been anticipated that the demand for industrial robots […]

Twitter stock nosedives after it reports sluggish revenue growth

Twitter just can’t win with investors. Every quarter it seems to miss expectations on either its financial metrics or its user growth. This quarter it reported that its daily active user count was up 11 percent, the first time in a year it had a double digit increase in this category. But its revenue growth […]