Facebook owns WhatsApp and Microsoft owns Skype, the two services that are at the centre of the current "net neutrality battle".
Unhappy with response to queries following Mehdi Biswas' arrest, Bengaluru Police summon Twitter India marketing head.
HealthifyMe is an app that connects users to fitness trainers virtually, motivate them on goals.
Online retail is increasing market share rapidly.
A friendly working environment, special healthcare facilities, flexible work hours, work from home options, support and camaraderie among the team members keep employees highly motivated in these 10 companies.
The online strategy cuts down on marketing and distribution costs, allowing Xiaomi to sell feature-rich phones at low prices.
Xiaomi said in a statement that "it isn't easy" to build up a patent portfolio as a start-up company, but it aims to have filed 8,000 applications by 2016.
They can carry huge amounts of data, have a lot of bandwidth, but operate at short ranges, between 200 metres and 2-3 km reports Surajeet Das Gupta
Industry analysts were broadly excited at the prospect, but sceptical that it could produce a working model at a mass-market price that soon.
Shortage of top engineering talent in Silicon Valley is inflating paychecks.
India has 53 achievers on the list, second only to China which has 76 honorees.
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.
Amazon signed up Motorola as an exclusive brand partner for its new devices, which in turn helped it grow
Modi said the government aimed at spreading digital literacy across rural India.
Has Steve Jobs' handpicked successor inherited the magic touch or is Apple's winning streak coming to an end?
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.
Industries with the highest number of top-rated companies at risk were hospitality/travel, media and entertainment, retail, financial services and consumer goods/manufacturing
"If I am using data to build intelligence and personalisation for you, then it's meaningful," says Ankur Warikoo, co-founder and CEO, Nearbuy.
One of the key concerns for non-users of voice assistants is trust.
Uber is suing Ola for $7.5 million to compensate for lost revenue and goodwill, alleging the Indian market leader created about 94,000 fake user accounts with the ride-hailing service and used them to make more than 405,000 false bookings
Kalyani Khona is helping the disabled find love.
To promote localisation of manufacturing and reduce its import bill, the government increased basic customs duty on mobile handsets - from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
Banks play 'mind games' to woo customers. Big data and 'games' are now the tools of the trade.
Power2SME, a one-stop shop for sourcing and buying raw materials for SMEs, is the only B2B firm in this space.
Very few things can faze Madhukar V Kulkarni, a cop of 30 years. Yet, an innocuous smartphone scares him. For those like him in Maharashtra's cities, tech classes have stepped in to teach them how to embrace Skype & WhatsApp. Ranjita Ganesan reports.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
Americans are lucky they have inherited the innovations of the past.
India is witnessing its own tech tsunami, and is poised to become the second largest global startup hub by the end of the decade
The past few years have seen a frenzy of phone launches.
The companies experienced a drop of 5,436 approved petitions (37 per cent) in 2016 as compared to previous year, a report by the National Foundation for American Policy, a Washington-based non-profit think-tank, said.
JLR is developing its own autonomous car technologies, which could one day trickle into Tata's more affordable people carriers.
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.
Flipkart's valuation of $15.2 bn arrived at during latest round of $700-mn fund raise.
Automobile makers in India are embracing taxi-hailing apps such as Uber and Ola, hoping to ride on their expansion to sell more cars, a contrarian view to companies in Western markets that fear a drop in car sales due to them
Drivezy is helping people share their vehicles.
'The expectation was that Modi would become even bolder in his approach, and after only four months into his second term, we are starting to see evidence of this.'
The e-commerce marketplace is like an information intermediary these days.
Leading the Indian-Americans on the list is 49-year old Aneel Bhusri.
From teaching to YouTube, these ideas will help students chase their dreams early on.
'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.'
