The Supreme Court Monday said it would first deal with issues related to objection to the e-voting process for winding up Franklin Templeton’s six mutual fund schemes and distribution of money to unitholders. A Bench comprising Justices S A Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna posted the matter for hearing on February 1 after one of the lawyers, appearing in the case, referred to a recent media report and sought time to file an application placing on record certain new facts. The Bench permitted the lawyer to file application within three days and said that response…

January 22, 2021 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Here’s a piece of advice that could gear up any new brand for a strong start: Market it early.  There’s absolutely no point in waiting for your brand’s day one before getting into marketing. And as my own ecommerce businesses can prove, a good pre-launch strategy is an absolute must-have if you want your brand to attract the right audience and your products to sell well without having to wait for months or years of zero to negative profits.  A pre-launch campaign’s core purpose is to…

Reflecting strong momentum, India witnessed 19 initial public offers worth USD 1.84 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020 and market sentiment remains positive in what could be a stellar 2021, according to a report. Leading consultancy EY’s India IPO Trends Report: Q4 2020 showed that there were a total of 10 Initial Public Offers (IPOs) in the main market and 9 in the SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) segment during this period. In the latest December quarter, there were 19 IPOs valued at USD 1.836 billion and the largest was…

January 22, 2021 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It seems that most media attention tends to go toward startups that offer something innovative and exciting. The latest app or “disruptive” brand is what will inevitably get the most attention. The thing is, not every business can deliver that level of flash and pizazz. Some industries and businesses are going to seem boring no matter how you look at it. This doesn’t mean they aren’t necessary. After all, toilet paper is hardly an exciting product, but you’d have been hard-pressed to find it throughout much…

Mumbai, Maharashtra [India], January 23 (ANI/NewsVoir): MahaDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governed by its users, the MAHA community, are officially launching the first epoch for ARTH, the world’s first non – depreciating currency. The currency has been designed to improve existing fiat price-pegged stablecoins, that continually need to keep up with the money printing and upon elastic stablecoin protocols, which spend virtually all their time in the contraction phases. ARTH also has the additional benefit of incentivizing DeFi users to pool assets and earn inflationary rewards. ARTH will be available for Indian investors at 3.30 PM GMT today at…

January 22, 2021 7 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. What’s on deck for influencer marketing in 2021? From everything we’re seeing, it should be a year filled with demands for creative production and on-point strategy. Here’s what’s on our radar for the upcoming year. 1. Influencer marketing gains importance for ecommerce Covid-19 has spurred ecommerce to record levels of use. Mega-retailers like Walmart report a 97{bce2ac57dae147ae13b811f47f24d80c66c6ab504b39dda4a9b6e8ac93725942} increase in ecommerce and this acceptance will trickle down throughout the ecommerce world. Experts suggest the pandemic has accelerated the shift towards online shopping by about five years.  Along…

Given the world-turned-upside-down year we just closed out, it is probably wise to steer clear of making predictions. But it can be hard to resist the temptation in January to submit to this traditional exercise of forecasting the future. We all know that the pandemic has changed the world of work for the long term, but one aspect of that change that may be underappreciated right now is the number of senior executives who are likely to balk at the idea of going back to the office full time. Once most people have gotten the vaccine, and companies decide that…

The sharp selloff in Bitcoin this week is stoking fresh questions about the sustainability of the cryptocurrency boom. Prices for the digital asset have tumbled 14 per cent this week, marking the steepest decline since March. Bitcoin was steady on Friday, holding near $31,000 and commentators have cautioned that a sustained drop below $30,000 could presage further losses. “Being Bitcoin, a 10 per cent range intraday is a mere flesh wound to the digital asset, in a world where tradable versus investible is seriously blurred,” said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at Oanda Asia Pacific. The…