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?
Founders should have faith in themselves, their vision and their team, feels Infosys founder Narayana Murthy.
The idea that technology and startups with newer business models will not disrupt traditional businesses has been thrown out the window.
Businesses have been reluctant to talk about contingency plans for Brexit
Meet Rahul Yadav -- the young, brash and confident CEO of the company.
Internet-based systemic wisdom connects machines and people, and will drive next-gen enterprises, said Huawei's Yatish Nagavalli.
Robotics is making inroads into HR, but will not replace the function any time soon, experts say.
The company is headed for its worst annual profit in three years, under siege as Chinese firms like Xiaomi and Lenovo reel in buyers with full-function touch-screen smartphones that are cheaper.
Advertisers look at large families as target audience and speak to the 50-year old plus.
15 per cent of startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indians.
New strategy for Infosys by October, says Nandan Nilekani. New chairman's other priorities: Hiring CEO, reviewing Panaya probe reports.
Rajat Gupta, 70, the first Indian managing director of McKinsey and who of 17 months in US prison for insider trading, gets ready to tell his side of the story. And he is less than complimentary about Preet Bharara, then the famous crusading US attorney for the Southern District of New York. "The jury, the press and the public saw only... a 'cropped picture', he says. For someone whose life story was a model of the Great American Dream - an Indian of modest means who rose to the highest circles of politics and business, mingling with the White House and Davos crowd - his indictment in 2012 marked a stunning fall from grace. Many ascribed it to the hubris of the rich and powerful, says Kanika Datta.
In this industry, a company's strategy needs to be adaptable in order to keep up with the pace of change.
At a time of massive job losses that is what the much-vaunted Indian IT sector needs. Ritwik Sharma reports.
Five inspiring women who travelled thousands of miles to Hyderabad recently to grow their business and skills share their tales of global entrepreneurship. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listened in.
It is all about a C and C model -- of choices and consequences -- for women. Women make choices about their lives and for each of them there will be consequences, Shell India Lubricants MD Mansi Madan Tripathy tells Jyoti Mukul.
As Chinese army incursions continue to recur, India has cautioned China that any disturbance of peace and tranquility in the border areas can vitiate the overall atmosphere of bilateral ties.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
RailYatri offers a host of travel-related services to a 4.5 million user base. Shine Jacob finds out what's next for the app.
'India is a huge market for Chinese goods. I don't think a war stands to logic when you have economic compulsions, but then Chinese are known to do illogical things.'
As with stocks, real estate and art, investing in start-ups has emerged as an asset class in itself.
'Find a great date, or great dates for the rest of your lives, or maybe a great friendship.'
Zara co-founder Amancio Ortega has toppled Bill Gates to become the world's richest person four times. A peek into the life of the 81 year old even Jeff Bezos can't keep up with!
M Muneer recommends segmenting the population on the basis of their propensity to embrace new technologies is the key to driving digitisation.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
America Inc tells Aziz Haniffa that Microsoft's new CEO validates what business leaders have long known - 'We need more Satyas travelling to the US'.
Not many people know that today's BPM industry gives specialists great career options.
In September, Sebi had given a six-month extension to companies.
Ever since India became a force to reckon with in software services, doing for clients what they want done, the big void that has been constantly talked about is its absence from the space of software products - those over which you own intellectual property rights.
'If there is any industry that is unfit for modern corporate form it is the diamond trade.' 'But no one was asking the right questions.' 'The music was playing and so the game was on,' says S Murlidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
With India poised to become the largest economy in the world by 2030, it cannot afford to leave half of its workforce behind.
The Genie will contain lots of gamified apps.
They researched their companies well, didn't believe in the market chatter and advise to stay invested for long term.
Practo is an online health service platform which assists patients to meet the best doctors and keeps digital records.
Srei Infrastructure's vice-chairman -- and former Assocham president -- Sunil Kanoria discusses the Kanoria businesses and his impression of the Modi government with Ishita Ayan Dutt and Namrata Acharya.
'An operation such as the Mumbai attacks, which needed expert technical assessment, money and time to prepare, could not have been carried out without the knowledge of the ISI's leadership.'
ITC is one of those few enterprises in the world that has traversed a 100 year journey and has yet managed to remain contemporary, relevant and competitive.
If "innovation" were a person, he or she would have looked like David Bowie.
One may fault this government for incompetence, corruption, and delayed action but it cannot be faulted for lacking a vision.
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.
