Ananya Bhattacharya

The Trump administration has been extremely hard on the H-1B visa, which allows highly skilled professionals to live and work in the US for up to six years.

Many consider the H-1B visa to be the pipeline that helped America build the world’s biggest tech hub in Silicon Valley. Others believe the visa’s success has come at the expense of American jobs.

The Donald Trump administration’s decision to temporarily suspend the H-1B visa programme has taken a toll on the valuations of several large American companies.

Many people who are not part of the majority ethnic group in the country they live in are accustomed to being asked: “But where are you really from?” Now companies are being asked the same question.

In September 1987, a laboratory in China sent an email to a German university—the first-ever email the world received from the Communist country. It read: “Across the Great Wall, we can reach every corner of the world.”

Walmart appears to have leaped ahead of Amazon in the crucial festive season e-commerce wars in India this year.

Facebook’s US employees are allowed to work-from-home until the summer of 2021 but halfway across the world, thousands of its content moderators are being forced to come into offices in the middle of the pandemic.

It’s almost like the Covid-19 lockdown never happened for Flock, an office team communication software firm founded by Indian serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia. During a time when most businesses across the world struggled to cope with shutdowns and lack of demand, Flock’s revenue grew 40% for three consecutive quarters, while it saw a 60% increase in the time users spent on the platform.

Coronavirus hasn’t hampered India’s festive spirit. It’s just shifted priorities.

India’s startups are digging a bigger hole for Google in India.

This article has been updated to reflect the results of the US presidential election.

The Donald Trump administration’s latest tweak to the H-1B visa programme might end up hurting the US economy.

The Donald Trump administration has made major changes to the H-1B visa programme, which will make it harder for foreign workers to work in the US.

In a year that’ll be remembered in history for a devastating pandemic and an unprecedented economic slowdown, an American investor is flooding India with money.

For over 2.65 million Indian Americans, Joe Biden’s vice-president pick is revolutionary, to say the least.

Nearly a year after launching its public transport feature in Delhi, Uber is all set to ride into its second Indian city.

Donald Trump often blames the H-1B programme for stealing American jobs. However, the ace up foreign workers’ sleeve has been that there aren’t enough American workers to fill their roles. Now, the Donald Trump administration is splurging to change that.

Even before India banned TikTok completely, it was scrutinising content on the short-form video-sharing app closely.

Softbank-backed digital payments firm Paytm has said Google temporarily removed its app from its Play Store without any warning and forced it to comply with its mandate.

With Oracle and Walmart set to acquire significant stakes TikTok’s US business, questions about a possible sale in India loom.

Coronavirus is not getting in the way of India’s festive spirit.

Having established itself as one of the leading e-commerce players in India, Amazon is now casting a wider net in the country.

Apple Inc is adapting to the pandemic. For instance, the company’s “Time Flies” event on Sept. 16 will be held virtually, just like its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. In India, the pandemic-linked innovation will soon include a move that could revamp its retail experience.

A Chinese company with links to Beijing has mined detailed personal information of more than 10,000 Indians, including government officials, prominent politicians, and industrialists, an investigation by The Indian Express newspaper has revealed.