'There is no tried and true recipe for creating Silicon Valleys.' 'Attracting and creating a mass of truly dynamic entrepreneurs is at the core and among the hardest and most necessary ingredients.' 'In the US, close to 60% of the top valued tech companies were started by immigrants who found the start-up climate to be superior to where they came from.' 'India would clearly benefit from attracting back its talented Diaspora, but it also needs to hold onto those entrepreneurs.'
Amazon has seen its India sales growing four times this year.
The ban has been in force since last Friday.
Analysts say the impact on Indian entities would not be immediate
When it comes to embracing newer technology, youngsters are usually much faster than adults. It's this quick rate of adoption that also makes them susceptible to danger.
The BBC is all set to produce daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi (in addition to the existing Hindi, Tamil and Urdu), Jim Egan, CEO, BBC Global News, tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
What your favourite celebrities are saying on social media.
Good pay hikes, positive macroeconomic factors and the taming of inflation have had a positive effect on purchases
Some people say I treat it as my wife, others ask why care so much, it is a machine it has no feeling, it has no life, but hell I say, once I hear it roar it does make me feel alive, is how Get Ahead reader Adamya Manshiva expresses his love for his favourite bike.
Here's what went down in the curtain raiser episode.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.
First phase of online video's growth is over. Netflix, Amazon developing new content ecosystem.
Cricketers and fans around the world are paying tribute to Phillip Hughes via a social media campaign by leaving their cricket bats out and sharing a picture with the message #putoutyourbats on Twitter.
People think I do this for money, but I don't. I do it because I value data privacy, says Anand Prakash.
Pride is all ours and of those who made a beeline to Halls 3 and 5 that showcased indigenous defence technologies at the Make In India Week.
Taking the supporters of Telangana supporters by surprise the Union government has given its nod to the ambitious Information Technology Investment Region proposal for Hyderabad which envisions an investment of Rs 2.19 lakh crore in and around the city over the next 25 years.
Siddharth Chauhan, winner of the Satyajit Ray Award
The Hundred-Foot Journey is reduced to plot holes and factual inaccuracies of surprisingly epic proportions, writes Nishi Tiwari.
The foremost lesson is that technology has got commoditised.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf wonders why no one objects to jokes about Rahul Gandhi, but are upset when Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar are mocked.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
The Powerwall 'will be great for India where there is a scarcity of electricity. The sun is there pretty much all day and there is no real good way to store its energy,' Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan tells Ritu Jha/Rediff.com.
Seamlessly integrating multiple devices is becoming the single most important strategy for retailers, says Ritwik Sharma.
Business should be pleasure, not pressure, believes Thrissur-based T S Kalyanaraman.
10 things you must know about the Girls Who Code founder.
'This has been an ongoing process,' says Ambassador B S Prakash, India's former consul general in San Francisco, 'but I believe a Modi visit to the West Coast can be a force-multiplier.'
At Rs 56,990, the smartphone seems to be on the pricier side.
Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru wants to be the youngest person to scale the seven summits of the world.
The Forbes 30 Under 30 list is harder to get into than Stanford or Harvard University. Meet the desis who made the cut this year.
Unlike previous Paris auto shows, where new diesel models took centerstage, much of the buzz this year centred around hybrids and electric vehicles.
Yakub Memon, who was convicted for helping finance the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which 257 people were killed, was hanged at the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning shortly before 7am.
Viveat Susan Pinto & Niraj Bhatt in conversation with Nirvik Singh, chairman and CEO, Grey Group.
The MG Hector has grabbed a lot of attention and interest, especially for its segment-above technologies.
Aditya Bhushan Dwivedi profiles Amitava Ghosh the chief technology officer at TaxiForSure.
The Chinese phone maker has ensured its two brands - Lenovo and Motorola - do not cannibalise into each other's share.
The suspension of mobile communication for the past 12 days in Kashmir amid strict curfew has put citizens in a desperate situation, says Athar Parvaiz.
'People don't like me wearing saris. But I am an Indian drag queen. I will wear a sari.'
The inspiring story of how Saurabh Aggarwal conquered it all with his mobile gaming company Octro.
Would you believe if I were to tell you that YouTube was conceived as a video-dating platform?
