Rajan posed the question while speaking at the annual leadership conference in Mumbai National Association of Software and Services Companies.
An Indian American Silicon Valley entrepreneur has launched a unique initiative designed to get techies to volunteer their time to develop software and applications that will benefit people in India and other developing countries.
And if you have started wondering why such innovations come only from American companies, Ajit Balakrishnan offers the answer.
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Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said universal connectivity and net neutrality "can and must" coexist.
Chinese mobile brands are deeply entrenched in the Indian market. A move to bar them may send a bold diplomatic message. But its cost for the local industry is anybody's guess. In the event that Chinese brands face curbs, two handset makers - Samsung and Apple - squarely stand to gain.
Social media is the new advertising tool for today's politicians and political parties, says Viveat Susan Pinto
British banking major HSBC on Thursday announced a consolidation exercise under which it will almost halve the number of branches in the country to 26, which will lead to 300 job losses.
The company is modelling its many ventures on Alibaba in China.
Advertisers take to pitching family values and social causes, giving celebrity endorsers and flamboyance a miss. Nikhat Hetavkar reports.
With big dreams and high hopes of earning lakhs or even crores, more and more youngsters are getting into software development for smartphones.
Solving problems through science was the key takeaway from the Prime Minister's speech.
The prime minister said gradually people are "shedding their hard currency mindset" and moving towards digital currency and the youth are leading the way using their mobile phones as the new tool to make and receive payments.
Writes to Trai, Mumbai Police to catch unauthorised SMS senders
Jean Dreze, a noted economist who was was a member of Sonia Gandhi led National Advisory Council, was dropped from the list of speakers at the Delhi Economics Conclave organised by the finance ministry and inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As daily testing of samples of blood and throat and nose swabs crossed two lakh for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, over 14,000 new coronavirus cases were registered in the country for the fifth day in a row to take the total count to 4,56,183, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
The PM's vision of a lean, agile, mobile and technology driven force requires more than 1.7 percent of GDP that it now gets.
Enguru app's 40-hour programme teaches general spoken English & employability-focused English.
They aid patients needing drugs and doctors via their online venture.
'Irrespective of their politics, people feel happy.' 'One of the best compliments I have received is that I have made it from Kashmir to Karnataka.'
'AI will be bigger than the advent of the Internet or the harnessing of electricity.' 'India must embrace it with all its might,' says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
The CJI said that absence of timely legal help to poor affects credibility.
Kashmir remained on the edge with six more persons, including a cop getting killed in violence on Sunday.
WikiLeaks has released what it termed as the biggest-ever leak of confidential documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the America's premier spy agency partnered with foreign intelligence agencies to turn TVs and smartphones into weapons for surveillance.
There has to be a purpose, aim or a goal. The brain should know why it should remember what it is trying to remember.
The meeting between the two leaders lasted about 20 minutes.
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.
The growing use of mobile phones for storing personal data has become a security concern, says Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com.
'Considering that an Internet company's market value is largely determined by its direct access to consumers for digital services, and largely served outside a sovereign country's control, it would appear reasonable in trade terms to discuss fees for a seat at the proverbial 'table' of opportunities in the largest open consumer market,' argues Venki Nishtala.
'It is really troublesome that someone in a position of power is misleading people and presumably, citizens of the country to give up data.' 'That is not a part of informed consent.'
With the festive season underway, retailers in the online and the offline world need to prepare well to offer the best deals to consumers and earn trust.
'Indian doctors have also been wary of patients learning about drugs and brand names.' 'Probably harking back to the Brahmanical tradition of preserving information and knowledge from getting polluted by the lower classes,' says Ambi Parameswaran.
'Where will the next 200 million users that will come online in India prefer to go? Will they buy a data pack, or will they use the free Internet?' 'What will happen when most of the Internet in India is inside a walled garden?'
The big breakthrough in e-commerce came in October when the big three of Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal went into an overdrive to win customers and offered pre-Diwali sales with eye-popping discounts.
Flipkart's current valuation is an estimated $12 billion.
A lowdown on how this career portal launched by the Government of India will change your search for jobs forever
The agency proposes to improve revenues from non-advertising segments, integrate non-traditional disciplines and strengthen sister agencies Orchard and Black Pencil.
Gamification has the potential to trigger immediate positive responses to learning that an organisation wishes to impart.
What an exciting year this has been for smartphone users. We list the best apps that were all the craze in 2015
At a time of massive job losses that is what the much-vaunted Indian IT sector needs. Ritwik Sharma reports.
