'We are certainly open to inorganic opportunities to grow.'
The Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund (RVCF), which has a corpus of Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion), would focus on innovative projects in the small and medium enterprises (SME) segment, such as the IT/ITeS, bio-technology, retail, tourism, hospitality and entertainment sectors.
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.
Google is investing heavily in creating business tools and products, driven by open source technology and machine learning
Farming and agriculture are crying out for a business model innovation, says R Gopalakrishnan.
We must work in the direction of an innovation and technology driven economy which could boost up creation of jobs and open advanced and newer avenues of employment within the country.
Asserting that India had removed many barriers in trade and investment
The latest deal would give Facebook deeper access to India, the second largest internet market after China.
The market price action seems to point in this direction. Let's hope we finally break out. It is about time! asserts Akash Prakash.
Videocon launched an app-powered air conditioner.
Gadkari said that the MSME sector contributes significantly in pushing the country's economic growth and creating employment.
Women entrepreneurs view the world through different lenses, hence, execute things differently, says Mohana Nair.
Two Indian non-government organisations are among 22 institutions to be awarded $615,000 each by the California-based Skoll Foundation for using "innovative approach" in addressing social issues.\n\n
3i Infotech Ltd on Tuesday said it has acquired a US-based specialty IT solutions company, Innovative Business Solutions Inc, for an aggregate consideration of $3.6 million.
'Facilitating conversion of well-run NBFCs into banks is urgently needed.'
Sanjeev Nayyar offers a roster of things to do to see the India of our dreams.
Muzammil Patel and Rahul Murthi will answer all your start-up queries.
Solving problems through science was the key takeaway from the Prime Minister's speech.
Three Indians have won the 2005 Ashden Awards, considered the Green Oscar, for their outstanding and innovative projects.
The founder of the e-commerce firm, which specialises in procurement of industrial products, believes if he plays his cards right, his company could become a unicorn with a valuation of $1 billion in 5 years.
Tele/video-consults have been effective for patients requiring post-hospitalisation follow-up, especially if they are from outside the city; patients with chronic diseases that need periodic monitoring; and pregnant women who require routine checkup with minimum exposure.
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Tata Sons, India's biggest business group, and firms controlled by billionaires Anil Ambani and Kumar Mangalam Birla are among the 26 companies that have applied for licences to open banks.
Sources said the spin-off, a joint venture company, was yet to be named.
Here's the full text of address to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on the eve of the Republic Day 2022.
He is nominated to the investment, innovation and audit committees.
In the decade since Biyani revolutionised retailing in India, he has attempted a number of things, eventually exiting a few of them.
'Kindly advise about the following stocks. Can I hold or exit?'
Global IT major Hewlett Packard on Tuesday launched its mobile e-service bazaar, which is an incubator for wireless technology applications, in three cities in the country -- Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd on Friday announced to raise Rs 7,350 crore from two investors -- Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and Global alternative asset firm TPG -- by selling a stake in group's retail arm.
Amid subdued demand for traditional information technology (IT) services offerings, Indian IT services players are betting on big data, as this is high on clients' agenda.
'India has the potential to reduce its trade deficit with China by $8.4 billion in FY21.'
In order to make it hassle-free, various start-up support groups such as TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur) and India Angel Network (IAN) are partnering with the digital NBFCs to extend debt finance to their member companies.
According to sources, Chambers has led the $5-million funding round via his investment firm JC2 Ventures
Cheap data plans, affordable handsets, increasing popularity of video services and 4G networks have helped average data consumption per user in India to grow to over 11 GB a month, telecom gear maker Nokia said on Thursday. Nokia -- in its annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBiT) report -- said the overall data traffic in India increased by 47 per cent in 2019, driven by continued 4G consumption. 4G data constitute 96 per cent of the total data traffic consumed across the country, while 3G data traffic registered its highest ever decline of 30 per cent, it added.
'The immediate attempt by China is to get its way and gain territory through small steps without having a full-scale war.'
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Sunday raised concerns over India's drugs regulator granting permission for restricted use of Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine and asked the government to explain why mandatory protocols and verification of data has been dispensed with.
Software industry body Nasscom on Wednesday appointed Cognizant India Executive Vice Chairman R Chandrasekaran as its Chairman for the year 2014-15.
"We now realise that the so-called farmer agitation hardly remains a farmers' agitation. It has almost got infiltrated by Leftist and Maoist elements, a flavour of which we saw over the last two days when there were extraneous demands to release people who have been put behind bars for anti-national (and) who have been put behind bars for illegal activities," Goyal, the Minister for Railways, Commerce and Industry and Food and Consumers Affairs, said at FICCI's annual meeting.
Without our realisation, basic AI is already managing our personal and work lives through emails, work processes and even entertainment
