E-tailers like Flipkart, Snapdeal, Jabong and others to hire 60,000 this year

MUMBAI: India's e-commerce companies such as Flipkart may be at odds with foreign rivals such as Amazon on whether or not to allow foreign direct investment, but they seem to be on the same page in anticipating an inflection point for the sector. Between them, the 10 top e-commerce firms plan to hire 60,000 people for the year ending March 31, 2015, the highest in a year for the fledgling industry. The job creation data is for...

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Pakistan workers fire Brazuca ball to Brazil for football World Cup

She has no idea who Lionel Messi is and her country isn't even playing, but Pakistani mother-of-five Gulshan Bibi can't wait for the football World Cup. She is a stakeholder because she helped make the balls. When Brazil and Croatia kick off the tournament in Sao Paulo on June 12 there's a good chance they'll be using a ball made by Gulshan and her colleagues at the Forward Sports factory in Pakistan's eastern town of Sialkot. Here’s...

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