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Firms in India expected to give 10% hike in 2023; highest in APAC: Report

Companies in India are expected to give a salary hike of 10 per cent in 2023 as they struggle with rising attrition in the tight labour market, according to a report

India's OTT market likely to touch $7 billion by 2027, says report

In India, new local and wealthy players are now gearing up to grab the market share, which is led by a newly recapitalized Viacom18, backed by Reliance, Bodhi Tree and Paramount

India price cuts drag Netflix's average revenue per member down 2% in APAC

Excluding India, APAC ARM grew 4 per cent in constant currency terms, Netflix said on Wednesday, when announcing June quarter results

Netflix sees an uptick in user engagement in India after reducing prices

Content streaming platform Netflix, which reduced its subscription prices in India late last year, is witnessing an uptick in user engagement in the country

India-based investors 2nd to provide fintech investments in APAC in 2021

India-based investors were a distant second in providing funding to fintech in Asia-Pacific after the US in 2021, a report said

IBM's new cybersecurity hub to train APAC companies thwart cyberattacks

IBM announced a new cybersecurity hub that will train companies in Asia Pacific (APAC) region to manage the growing threat of cyberattacks.

India to Indonesia: Emerging Asia central banks run out of room to wait

The Reserve Bank of India's move last week to keep the reverse repo rate unchanged surprised markets, which had expected the bank to raise rates to begin policy normalization

Lamborghini expects India to rank higher in top 10 markets in APAC region

Lamborghini is bullish on India to rank higher in its top 10 markets in the Asia Pacific region going forward, buoyed by strong consistent performance over the years

Kaspersky predicts rise in cyber espionage for India in 2022

Kaspersky considers APAC region as among hottest targets in the world for cyberattacks, for reasons including rapidly increasing usage of digital technologies matched by lack of awareness

India to Indonesia: Asian economies challenged by Delta Covid variant

In India, where the delta strain was first identified last year, a deadly second wave is ebbing but its fallout is substantial.

Mumbai tops APAC data centre capacity addition in Q1, says Report

The financial capital saw the highest addition of data centre capacity in the entire Asia Pacific region in the quarter ending March 2021, says an industry report

Stonebridge raises $200 mn to deploy in Indian, APAC cos; lists on Nasdaq

Stonebridge Acquisition Corporation (SBAC), on Monday announced to have raised USD 200 million or Rs 1,400 crore from global investors for investing into Indian companies.

Slow vaccination weighs on recovery of A-Pac sovereign credit metrics: S&P

S & P Global Ratings expects most Asia Pacific sovereign credit ratings to remain unchanged in the next one to two years despite continued pressures posed by Covid-19."We have stable outlooks on more than two-thirds of 21 long-term sovereign ratings in the region currently," it said in a report published on Wednesday.Covid-19 vaccines rolled out in several countries from late 2020 have helped to reduce pandemic-related uncertainties on the trends of economic and fiscal indicators.The better clarity has allowed a few positive rating actions on governments that showed strong credit metrics for their respective rating levels at the beginning of the year."We expect much of Asia Pacific to return to relatively strong economic performance once the region has Covid-19 under control," said the report."Many parts of the region have been significantly affected by the pandemic and have seen sharp economic contractions in 2020. However, we believe the episode has not seriously damaged their ..

CS, Nomura turn 'overweight' on India; how much upside can one expect?

How much more meaningful upside can we anticipate for the market? In this podcast, Jyoti Roy, DVP Equity Strategist at Angel Broking answers this and more

Global funds remain more overweight on India than APAC: Amish Shah

Amish Shah, India equity strategist at BofA Securities says that his firm expects the markets to consolidate in the near term

80% firms in Asia Pacific changing marketing strategy over Covid-19: Adobe

Organisations in countries like India and China are likely to have a Covid-19 taskforce to manage messaging and campaigns.

Covid-19: APAC firms likely to face nearly 33% carve-out acquisition delays

A carve-out is the partial divestiture of a business unit in which a parent company sells minority interest of a child company to outside investors.

Coronavirus could knock $211 bn off APAC economies, Japan most vulnerable

Japan would take 0.5 percentage point hit and Korea a 1 percentage point knock

Moody's lowers Apac growth forecast to 5.2% over Coronavirus outbreak

The impact of the shuttering is large as China contributes a whopping 16 per cent of global GDP, up from 4 per cent when it was hit by the SARS virus in 2003

Bengaluru tops APAC list in office rental growth: Knight Frank report

Connaught Place in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai are ranked 7th and 11th in the 20 fastest growing prime office markets in the Asia-Pacific region