With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
Is it likely that one of these days, a demand may rise that only truthful endorsement should be made in media and that if it is discovered that she or he in real life does not use that brand, punishment may follow, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
How do you balance the demands of an expanding business with the desire to retain the culture that made you successful?
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.
Nobody knows your business better than you. Do know that you need to be closely involved with the social media efforts for your start-up. It is not something which you can just hand over to someone and forget about it. To make it effective, you need to be as much involved in it. If you have the bandwidth and skills to do it in-house, I would recommend going with that option
'There is a communication between Rahul Mukerjea and Sheena Bora.' 'First on the 26th. And then on the 27th and then on the 28th.' 'See the messages wherein Rahul Mukerjea tells Sheena Bora "Baba I am in the car park. Come".' 'And Sheena Bora replies to Rahul Mukerjea: "Five min bas".' 'This explains why none of the bodies matched Sheena Bora...'
The freebies are now over, but Jio will need to notch up subscriber numbers and margins to prove its sceptics wrong.
'You must remember that a career is something you can craft for yourself.' 'But if you want to be a successful leader, you need the organisation and your team to support you.' 'In order to make it all work, you need to be cognisant of the team.' 'You can't be a prima donna. These days, people don't accept that.' 'You can't ride roughshod over people.'
The struggling smartphone maker has been slashing prices of its handsets in India -- Z30, Z10, Q5, 9320 and 9720 -- to drive sales due to competition from Android, iOS and Nokia's Windows Phone, which have been offering devices at affordable prices.
A large part of the credit for the Kwid's success goes to sourcing of local components. This allowed Renault to launch the car at Rs 256,000 in September 2015
Ford India and Renault too reported good sales growth in April
A Molotov cocktail of lies, abuse and bigotry is blowing up social media.
With one million users in Brazil, and 35,000 here in India within three weeks -- are we going to witness an encore from Orkut Bykkkten?
For the traditionalists, wars on Twitter and Facebook smack of immaturity.
The Mars mission is overwhelmingly irrelevant to space science and won't advance the frontiers of knowledge. It will divert attention from the real technological challenges facing the Indian space programme, and will further distort our science and technology priorities, says Praful Bidwai.
Take a look at the skills that matter and how you can acquire them.
In conversation with Anil S Nair, CEO & Managing Partner at L&K Saatchi & Saatchi India.
Today, Apollo Tyres is the first made-in India automotive brand to be sold in Europe independently.
MCX Stock Exchange is bullish on breaking-even in one year's time frame.
'If you look at voice and data realisations in India, they are the lowest in the world.'
After building a subscriber base of nearly 50 million in about eight chequered years, it finally gave up as it saw itself up against a 600-pound gorilla that breezed through double that many subscribers in a fraction of that time, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The one common theme across companies that have rewarded shareholders is consumption.
The second generation Ford Figo offers the best of safety, performance, technology and styling, emerging as a complete hatchback.
'Instead of doing reforms and restructuring, the present government is busy with the perception that everything is fine and the economy is hunky-dory.' 'Such hollow perceptions are very dangerous for the Indian economy in the long run.' 'The real risk to India is the lack of decent employment opportunities for youth in general and educated youth in particular.'
The Sensex soared 402 points higher to end at 25,720 and the Nifty surged 130 points to close at 7,819.
His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions. Siva Sankar pays tribute to S P Balasubrahmanyam, the legendary singer who passed into the ages on Friday.
If not a full time career, learning some of these skills will help you create additional sources of income along with a regular job.
'Ex-servicemen engineers and technicians are true professionals worthy of being 'Make in India' agents. They can be trusted to bring long term dividends -- it is in their character to be long term loyalists!' says Air Marshal P V Athawale (Retd).
Saksham Karwal shares the lessons he's learned along the way.
T N Ninan lists a few David-Goliath encounters in the Indian markets, all of which make life interesting, though difficult if you are an investor looking for the next multi-bagger.
Viveat Susan Pinto & Niraj Bhatt in conversation with Nirvik Singh, chairman and CEO, Grey Group.
For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
The total staff strength - once 1,100 - is now under 200.
India has made a remarkable journey from a top-down system of economic decision-making to one that unleashed our entrepreneurial spirits but the next big jump lies in enhancing the quality of our tale.
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He started a fund with Rs 800 crore and made several investments.
'You worry when serious people, with control of our and our children's future, begin to start obsessing over social media, seeing it as an easy, lazy, fun, low-cost substitute for boring, old-fashioned practices of politics, governance and serious, fact-based debate,' says Shekhar Gupta.
India will have to deal with the question of whether broadband service providers are 'common carriers', like highways.
Some start-ups, small businesses allowing pets at workplace
Apoorve Dubey lists out the 15 things that will make you a successful entrepreneur.
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