Investments in 2015 reach a record high of $46.4 million with 193 deals.
In an online chat, career counsellor Amit Bansal shared crucial career advice with readers on how to pick the right stream and college to study engineering.
Whatever happens to WPP, the marketing communications business will no longer be the same again, says Sreekant Khandekar.
Company identifies areas like cognitive technologies, artificial intelligence, man-machine interface, robotics
Why Dalit leaders cross over to the BJP
Its trajectory in telecom is well known but now it is pushing for a similar leap into the ranks of the top players in its other businesses: media and entertainment, e-commerce, a series of online businesses ranging from health to education, and retail.
The applications range from disaster recovery to predicting demand and understanding customer choices using artificial intelligence.
After last year's lull, number of offers jump by 15%.
An ambitious long-term vision to ensure economic connectivity between India and the rest of Southern Asia is critical to India's trade policy objectives.
This will be Infosys' first investment from its innovation fund dedicated to start-ups and emerging technologies.
Against estimates of black wealth of Rs 300 lakh crore and black money in cash of Rs 3 lakh crore by economist Arun Kumar, the PMGKY numbers fall short by a huge margin.
'We look forward to providing great customer experiences in India.'
Or it could lose you one, says Samali Basu Guha.
There has also been a shift from hiring freshers to those with two to five years' experience.
IT major TCS said 2014-15 will be better than the ongoing fiscal on account of uptick in client spending in the US and Europe and growth in demand for technologies like cloud, mobility and Big Data.
Indian IT giants are outstanding companies with great management teams, but they have been held hostage by their past success.
In an interview with Peerzada Abrar and Romita Majumdar, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said that his company would continue to bet heavily on India's engineering talent pool.
"In terms of local taxes, in terms of local small business productivity, local large business competitiveness, their educational outcomes, their entrepreneurial work, that's what matters," the Microsoft CEO said.
Start-ups such as Max Wholesale, Jumbotail and ShopKirana are helping them place orders, maintain inventory, optimise delivery routes and make payments, all digitally.
Adapting to the new hybrid normal of remote and office work, cautiously optimistic corporate are looking to hire more people and provide better appraisals in the new year as they step out of the pandemic-ravaged 2020. The coronavirus pandemic emerged as the biggest inflection point for the Indian job landscape. For the corporates, work-from-home and remote workers became the new normal and for the professionals, online learning and digital skills took centrestage.
DDinesh Kumar Khara is someone who cares for others's ideas and suggestions.
If he takes the people along with him (which he always does); cares for the customers (80 per cent of SBI's new customers are in the 20-40 age group); and doesn't take his eyes off technology, his job is done, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Under Neemuchwala's digital-first vision, Wipro has accelerated investments in automation, analytics, cloud and cognitive technologies over the past three years, says Ayan Pramanik.
Cloned journals have become more rampant in the post-pandemic world.
Records of millions of car owners are mined to generate leads, pitch sales and get feedback to develop vehicles, says Ajay Modi.
Surging value of dollar may be posing the biggest threat to US corporate earnings.
Mumbai-based LocalBanya is looking to expand to Pune and Delhi as part of its growth strategy.
One of the many contrasts that Kumar versus Nilekani highlights is that of a traditional career politician as against a highly successful professional entering politics for the first time. Rupa Subramanya reports
The cola major expands its portfolio of healthy foods under brands Tropicana and Quaker Oats, looks to bring down its sugar addiction by Apurva Venkat.
'30 to 40% of the industry needs to be reskilled as existing jobs will go to automation.' 'Reskilling is required as some existing jobs will not be required in the future.'
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
Qualities that relate to emotional intelligence such as empathy and curiosity will be a big consideration factor for hiring managers of the future, says Sanjay Bahl.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
A Bank Investment Company to act as a holding company for state-owned banks would go a long way in minimising government interference and improving governance.
'What matters is that India's perspective on global issues -- climate change, intellectual property, free trade, trade routes being kept free, digital technology -- are listened to with respect,' says Ambassador B S Prakash.
Are breakthroughs on this imminent, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
The fund industry may have embraced machines and robots, but managing money still needs the human touch
TCS on Thursday said the digital segment is the fastest-growing revenue stream, accounting for 12.5 per cent of the overall sales of the IT giant which sounded confident of surpassing the $5-billion target in the segment over the next five years.
Beware of spot offers and discounts aimed to lure you into binge buying.
Insurance company will bear the cost of digitising. It will in turn benefit from lower expenses on servicing policies.
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