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'We spent considerable time re-skilling all the employees, and then we created a new focus called the 'One Infosys'.'
The panel headed by former Special IT Secretary M Madhavan Nambiar and former health secretary Rajeev Sadanandan, will also ascertain whether adequate procedures were followed while finalising the arrangements with the private company, Sprinklr. The Opposition Congress has been levelling charges that the collection of data by the US firm violated the fundamental rights of the patients.
Postman, a leading application programming interface platform, has secured $225 million in a Series D round, placing its valuation at $5.6 billion. With this, Postman has emerged as the most-valued software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm started by Indian founders, overtaking web and mobile testing firm BrowserStack, which was valued at $4 billion in June. The valuation of the San Francisco-headquartered firm with offices in Bengaluru, where it was founded, has almost trebled in just about one year and risen multi-fold since 2019. Postman, with team members spread across four continents, had secured $150 million in a Series C investment round led by Insight Partners at a $2-billion valuation last summer.
Tech is also being used to stem resignations, which have recorded a rise amid COVID-19.
Fresher hiring is expected to more than double compared to last year.
As a venture partner, DVP said that Neemuchwala would be bringing deep technology expertise and invaluable experience of building businesses.
In order to make it hassle-free, various start-up support groups such as TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur) and India Angel Network (IAN) are partnering with the digital NBFCs to extend debt finance to their member companies.
Launching Adobe's creative suite 5.5 (CS 5.5) product line here, Prabhjeet Singh, country marketing manager (India), Adobe Systems, said they were looking at subscription as a model.
With over 600 customers signed in a short period of just six months, SaaS solutions aggregator, Jamcracker, has quickly emerged as one of the largest players in the Indian market.
'We want to look at very strong entrepreneurial teams.' 'I want to focus on a full team and not just the entrepreneur, which is building innovative and amazing differentiated businesses in large markets.' 'We also look at business models that are proven and have reasonably good gross margins, which show that this is where a lot of value is getting built.'
From wider adoption of software-as-a-service to a greater focus on biometric security measures, the year promises a lot.
Indian firms selling SAAS products have got a bonanza as companies meet, manage and sell remotely. The top five firms - Zoho, Freshworks HighRadius, Druva, and Icertis - account for 33 per cent of the market share. Chennai, India's SAAS centre, alone generates $1 billion in annual revenue. Yuvraj Malik explains how these companies are planning their next phase of growth.
Univariety offers career guidance that is rooted in the real world.
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has forged a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd for venturing into the web conferencing market.
The policy proposes a single-window platform for facilitation of the Indian software product industry, to help fast-track legal and regulatory issues over import and export, as well as setting up and winding up enterprises.
It is not clear as to whether we are in a bubble in technology stocks. What is clear, however, is that there is no reason why this potential bubble will pop anytime soon, notes Akash Prakash.
While HackerEarth has clients and developers globally, the US consists more than a third of the revenue stream, and plans to ramp it up to 60 per cent of the total share.
The investor has now put together a fund of $3.75 billion to back private companies.
CoLife offers shared living and working spaces under the brands CoLive247 and CoWork247.
The revenue of Indian software market was at $4 billion in 2014.
Liv.Ai makes speech recognition software that allows people to transact in their native languages.
Sixteen major contracts worth nearly $14 billion to be renewed by June 2018 but uncertainty looms large.
Last year, the software giant launched a cloud adoption programme for SMBs.
Tencent reinforces India's consumer internet story. Ranju Sarkar reports.
The Nifty is up 6.5% in the last 12 months. The NSE IT Index is down 10% in the same period. But will the sentiment improve going ahead?
Sapience offers an innovative solution to measure the productivity of office and mobile workers, with almost no manual inputs from managers or employees, says Romita Majumdar.
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
Investors spent much of 2016 cleaning house. And a VC tells Ranju Sarkar, "There's still some bad news left in the portfolios (of VC firms). What happens to Ola and Flipkart will drive sentiment in future."
Start-up Belong.co uses an unconventional way of hiring that trusts more on data available on social media or tweets than the resume.
Ranju Sarkar finds out more about Nowfloats, the start-up that is used by 240,000 businesses that reach 13 million consumers.
Reddi has so far made 10 investments in the US.
To be competitive, you need to focus on building products very rapidly, says Werner Vogels.
Hyderabad-based Pi Datacenters wants to be the first destination of choice for enterprises in data and cloud services.
Morgan Stanley writing down its investment in the e-commerce leader by 27 per cent does not augur well for the sector.
With the help of Practo Ray, doctors can share reports.
The event, organised by Deutsche Messe AG, is held each year at the Hanover fairground, the world's largest, in Hanover, Germany.
More than a decade after it entered the market, Naukri.com, Info Edge (India) Ltd's recruitment services portal, has about 50,000 customers and about 120,000 job listings.
'We had a great product for the global market and we could sell it globally resulting in this amazing growth.' 'When customers come online and buy a product, they don't look at whether it is created in India or somewhere else.'
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