The proposed acquisition is expected to close by the end of 2014, subject to approvals from Indian Courts and the anti-trust body in India and the US
Of the 600 young change makers who made the cut this year '1:6 are immigrants from 44 countries' -- an important ratio in the age of growing protectionism.
A start-up that just focuses on discounting for growth without a balancing effort towards product will soon find itself riding a tiger that's impossible to get off from.
Decision to build or buy a platform is a function of price but buyouts are helping large investors create a medium and influence outcomes.
Cisco employs over 10,000 people in India.
Here's a glimpse of Modi's first day in Israel.
Upbeat on the rapidly evolving entrepreneurial environment in the country, Cisco has created a $40 million (over Rs 240 crore) fund, a first by the networking solutions giant in any of its present geographies.
India serves as the company's R&D hub as it morphs into a health tech major.
XSEED Education is a curriculum-and training-based learning solution that helps schools improve their teaching techniques. And its impact, even on students with dyslexia and dysgraphia, is remarkable.
'As the world changes, we will be on a constant change programme too,' advertising agency J Walter Thompson Global Chief Executive Officer Tamara Ingram and South Asia CEO Tarun Rai tell Viveat Susan Pinto.
Indian start-ups are waiting to spread red carpet for engineers to be laid off.
Long before he launched Paytm, Vijay Shankar Sharma, a 32 year old from Aligarh, embarked on his ambitious entrepreneurial journey.
India's list of non-cricket sports stars is growing, but when it comes to endorsement deals, the bulk of the money is spent on a handful of cricketers.
Foodpanda delivery executives were assured they could make Rs 50,000. There were promises made on surge and demand. But the demand never kept up with the supply.
The 100MB app casts the cricketer in a digital avatar that can be used in a variety of ways. Celebrities, Urvi Malvania reports, are increasingly leveraging their fan following in the real world to build virtual empires.
On the Digital India initiative, Pichai said India was undergoing its own revolution
The age of buying into ideologies just because they sound nice is long gone says Piyush Kedia.
Over lunch with Jyoti Mukul, Banmali Agrawala, president and CEO, GE South Asia, discusses how GE is transforming itself into a digital industrial company.
Employers believed that frequent job movements are indicative of indecisiveness in a candidate and demonstrate a lack of loyalty.
Advice to the new finance minister from former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan: 1. Clean up banks by reviving projects that can be revived after restructuring debt. 2. Improve governance and management at public sector banks. 3. De-risk banking by encouraging risk transfers to non-banks and the market. 4. Reduce the number and weight of government mandates for public sector banks, and for banks more generally.
Shortage of top engineering talent in Silicon Valley is inflating paychecks.
To tackle the resultant inflation, the Indira Gandhi government had imposed price controls on manufactured products, including soaps and vanaspati, in 1973.
Google is investing heavily in creating business tools and products, driven by open source technology and machine learning
Canada and Mexico emerge as preferred destinations to service clients in the US; east Europe and Nordic nations are favoured alternatives
Salary budgets in APAC region are set to rise 6.8 per cent in 2016.
'Skater Girl is India's first film on skateboarding and I hope that it inspires girls and boys across the world and brings them hope.'
In less than a week of Donald Trump being sworn in as the 45th US President, the "H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act" was introduced to prioritise American workers and restore fairness in visa programmes for skilled workers.
Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California on the largest TieCon ever.
BPO, which is growing at 12 per cent annually in the country, is expected to touch $50 billion by 2020 from the present $21 billion.
He wants his companies to have speed and agility to adapt to turbulent times
Mera Job is a marketplace for both lower end white collar jobs and skilled blue collar workers.
The first quarter of 2018 saw infrastructure and real estate drive investment worth close to $8 billion across 180 deals
'Middle-level managers account for 10 per cent -- or 450,000 people -- in the IT industry in India.' 'And of these 225,000 would lose jobs over the next one decade as their work would get automated.' 'This is grim news for many reasons,' says Aakar Patel.
ATCO's subsidiary, ATCO I-Tek, will become a part of Wipro after the closure of the deal, which is expected to be completed in this quarter.
'What we are actually missing in India is a platform wherein the government engages with cybersecurity experts, gets them employed and then utilises their capability to deter such attacks.'
'Lakhs of engineers graduate every year in India and the IT industry used to be the primary recruiter. That is going to end.'
Flipkart will need $2 bn annual profit to make Walmart investment viable, which will mean yearly revenue of $100 bn
Anjuli Bhargava discovers how the Buddha Fellowship is attracting India's brightest minds to solve its problems.
'You will see more and more people working independently -- starting beauty parlours, driving cars, etc.' This is what we call the gig economy.' 'The same people who have been laid off in India or are unable to get visas to work in the US may be part of this gig economy.' 'India needs billions of jobs, and it can only be created by self-employment or the gig economy.'
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