UpFront
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A forecast for a warming world: Learn to live with wildfires
The US has seen three straight years of record-breaking fires that researchers say are likely to continue in a warming world and which raise an important question: How to live in an ecosystem that is primed to burn?
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Business (Fake bazaar in India!; Why rich people don't stop working; Jeff Bezos and his faster decision-making secret), Neurotech (Implants that can control your brain), Management (Podcast of chats with a16z co-founders), Politics (The national language debate) and Learning (Lessons from 'coach' Rahul Dravid)
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Electric cars are getting louder. Here's why
As electric vehicles continue to gain popularity, a conceivable problem is the lack of sound that their quiet engines make. Now, carmakers are trying to change that, to avoid mishaps, as governments around the world ask them to turn up the volume
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Why saving WeWork will be hard
As Softbank takes control of WeWork, it wants the coworking space company to slow its growth, focus on its core business — leasing office space, refurbishing it and renting it to "members" — and devote its energy to major markets like New York and San Francisco
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What happens if lenders can't resolve DHFL issue by December? Recognition of NPA
Lenders are seeking to acquire 61 percent stake in DHFL by conversion of debt, price to be decided under ICDR regulations
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HCL Tech's $1.8 billion software play gets off to modest start in Q2
Analysts say that revenue for the software unit, with products acquired from IBM, may have fallen short of projections
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Tesla reports profit for quarter, sending shares soaring
Tesla seems to have shaken off many of its troubles, and detailed a suddenly robust position when it reported $143 million in net income in the third quarter, defying analysts' expectations of a loss
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Big tech for Big Mac: McDonald's taps into AI, ML to drive sales
As fast-food sales decline across the increasingly competitive restaurant industry, McDonald's is looking for new ways to lure customers, and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire technology companies that specialise in artificial intelligence and machine learning
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'Time to reclaim the crown': Sansui's Lim Jew Tim
The electronics company's head of global licensing speaks to Forbes India about its new India strategy
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Excerpt: Nobel winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo on decisions poor make
In their 2011 book, Poor Economics, the couple explores the reasons behind the decisions that the poor make, and chart a middle ground between market-based solutions and large-scale solutions to eradicate poverty
