The protocol aims to "democratise" lending, reduce costs of credit, and ensure accessibility of credit to small companies and street vendors, according to Nandan Nilekani.
The days when clean sheets and a well-stocked minibar were enough to ensure a satisfied customer are long gone, says Frederick Sabty.
A culture of science and innovation must be embedded in society wherein people not only use new technology but understand it as well. Without this, obscurantism and blind faith can sit side by side with digital technology and, in fact, use the same technology to reinforce their hold on people, says Shram Saran.
The company will operate the IT system for five years.
Through Micro Lost Mobile Tracking System, Micro Technologies would provide security to the mobile handsets of Airtel subscribers, the firm informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. The application would have a software in the GSM enabled mobile handsets that would inform the user about the new mobile number, which replaced the original number, through an e-mail, Micro Technologies said.
Launched by the ministry of housing and urban affairs, the ease of living index (EoLI) is aimed at providing a holistic view of the country's cities. These will be done on parameters like services provided by local bodies, effectiveness of the administration, outcomes generated through those services in terms of liveability and citizens' perception of the outcomes.
Managing team members without daily face-to-face interactions is something we are all learning. However, if we inculcate the following factors in our professional lives, it can help us go a long way in establishing seamlessness and excel at remote leadership
T N C Rajagopalan on the new year and new worries.
He had said the sector was running on a treadmill of lowering costs
Rishad joined the company in June 2007.
In what is seen as a significant move, the DAP featured measures to reduce delay in procurement of essential items by the three services as it proposed a new enabling provision to acquire them through capital budget under a simplified procedure in a time-bound manner.
India has been ranked 52nd in the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2015 compiled by the World Economic Forum.
It may not be an exaggeration to say that in the next three years, in India itself a million jobs or more might be at risk due to automation. How we leverage its benefits will determine our fate in the digital era.
The San Francisco-based giant has acquired a Delhi-based company.
Biden has reiterated America's support for India's permanent membership on a reformed UNSC and its entry into the NSG during his first in-person bilateral meeting with Modi at the White House.
TCS will manage Diageo's global IT infrastructure, data centres and servers, in addition to providing service desk support to employees, TCS said in a statement.
If each one of us puts our minds to it, 2015 will be a year to remember, he said
India's IT/BPO story isn't over yet, believes Ganesh Natarajan.
India's IT/BPO story isn't over yet, believes Ganesh Natarajan.
A postman is well-versed within the area he is allocated and is still a vital link in many rural parts.
Under the 'Major Defence Partner' recognition, the US will continue to work toward facilitating technology sharing with India to a level commensurate with that of its closest allies and partners.
As a multi-agency probe into the NSE case gathers pace, the grant of preferential server and data access to select brokers and their suspected misuse are being investigated threadbare to unveil all quid pro quo arrangements in a highly-sophisticated scheme that worked like a cricket betting scandal, officials said on Monday. While the bourse has said it has taken several steps over the years to strengthen its technology infrastructure, including as per regulatory orders, the officials said certain fresh disclosures call for a detailed probe into whether a select group of individuals in high positions had banded together to make illicit gains by facilitating the preferential trading slots, beginning over a decade ago. Even a split-second faster access is said to result in huge gains for a trader.
'Significant reductions in the compliance obligations mean businesses earlier struggling to comply will now have enough time to prepare and comply within the extended timelines.'
State govt aims to make Hyderabad a 4G WiFi-enabled city by December.
SVAMITVA is a new government project that primarily aims to demarcate abadi areas that includes inhabitant land, inhabited areas contiguous to abadi and wadis/basties in rural areas, using drone surveying technology.
FINDIT will provide access to information on 175,000 business listings.
Ridlr will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ANI Technologies, which owns Ola brand. Ridlr's team of 64 employees will now become a part of Ola.
Slowing growth, stronger rupee and higher local hiring to pull firms down this financial year
Trifacta's investors include Accel, Greylock Partners, Ignition and Cathay Innovation
Smart cities must be very well equipped with technology and security systems alike.
About 80 per cent of the companies that are registered are essentially non-IT.
Wipro's revenue from the information technology services business for the quarter ended September was in line with its estimate, though it lagged some of its larger Indian peers in a few operating parameters. Chief executive T K Kurien tells Bibhu Ranjan Mishra he expects a few issues involving a couple of large clients to be resolved in a quarter, before all the company's engines start firing.
The official also said the government's official app helped generate information about 697 potential hotspots in the country.
In new year message, Sikka warns staff of automation, Premji talks of Wipro's core values
Appropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions, says Shyam Ponappa.
Apart from the much-reported constitutional and political hurdles on a national Goods and Services Tax (GST), there is another basic one. Barely half of dealers in the country have a Permanent Account Number (PAN) from the tax department.
Forty years on, ironically, the managerial attention to new businesses has meant almost 40 per cent of revenues now come from the non-tobacco business.
Mastercard recently launched an authentication product called Identity Check Express that enables customers to verify transactions on their own.
The elephant in the room will permeate the conversations, predicts Rup Narayan Das.
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With its Mitsubishi JV beginning operations this quarter, analysts expect meaningful revenue addition
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