Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani has moved 2 ranks ahead this year on the most powerful list.
Dorsey works to rebuild employee morale and confidence at Twitter after a spate of high-level departures.
This next phase of globalisation needs to deliver economic growth so that it is equitable: Nadella.
Mainstream American newspapers, many of which had been sceptical of India's space mission and sometimes even made fun of it through cartoons, noted the great Indian achievement.
"In a year dominated by political chaos and bluster, it was a rare brand of steady -- even quiet -- leadership that won the day in the business world. And no one epitomises that brand of obsessively results-driven, team-based leadership more than our new No. 1 Businessperson of the Year," Fortune said.
Rajeev Suri, the head of Nokia's telecoms network equipment division, is likely to become the Finnish group's next chief executive following the sale of its handset business to Microsoft.
After Sheryl Sandberg, it's now the turn of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to visit India, the second biggest market for the social networking giant, later this month.
'On the ground, Jai would never swipe or slog or do anything ugly with a cricket bat.' A Joseph Antony salutes the memory of M L Jaisimha, one of the most stylish batsmen to play cricket for India.
Chanting slogans of "Modi Modi" and India-US friendship, Indian Americans walked in a procession for over an hour towards the historic Lincoln Memorial where the participants busted into an impromptu dance.
Most of the companies are Chinese and surprisingly all are diversified banks.
Unique benefits, work-life balance, and fair share of profits were the top three areas where MNCs fared better over Indian companies
Yahoo! co-founder to give up CEO job after a brief, chaotic tenure.
The Chinese President dethroned Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most influential person on the planet.
Wipro has been quite aggressive among Indian IT services companies in acquisitions as a strategy to buy the capabilities in emerging technologies.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella have assured help to India as the country grapples with a ravaging coronavirus crisis that has put enormous pressure on its hospitals due to a shortage of beds, oxygen and medical supplies.
How many of the apps downloaded in India deliver the GPT technology they say they are?
"Indian-Americans are an 'organic bridge' between the world's two largest democracies," he said.
Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
Bezos' total net worth hit $65.05 billion
Microsoft CEO holds all-hands-meet with India employees, reiterates thrust on 'mobile-first, cloud-first' strategy
In the first qarter results, Lumia sales showed incremental gains.
Satya Nadella is a "proven leader" whose "strong technical skills and great business insights" will drive the world's leading technology company, says Microsoft's outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer about his successor.
'I was amazed at how tasty it was.' 'They did a good job with millets and lentils, which Mr Modi liked.'
With his elevation as the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, in whom co-founder of the microblogging giant Jack Dorsey has "bone-deep" trust, joins the growing power club of Indian-origin executives helming US-based global multinationals. Twitter's outgoing CEO Dorsey announced on Monday that 37-year old Agrawal, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Stanford University alumnus, will be the company's new chief executive as he stepped down after 16 years at the company that he co-founded and helmed. A report in The New York Times said Agrawal will receive an annual salary of $1 million, in addition to bonuses, restricted stock units and performance-based stock units.
Technology giant Microsoft is in talks with TikTok's parent company ByteDance to buy its US operation.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
Heads of Apple, Microsoft and HP, Infosys and Wipro's IT business would be keenly watched.
The tech creators, or the ones who made billions, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
If Android One succeeds, it will only cement Pichai's so-called position as the most powerful man in the mobile world.
Don Mattrick helped turn the Xbox business into a profitable venture after years of operating losses.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been ranked as the world's ninth most powerful person by Forbes magazine in a 2015 list which is topped by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Hospitality firm OYO is planning to raise up to $1.2 billion (around Rs 8,000 crore) through an initial public offering and is expected to file the draft red herring prospectus with Sebi next week, sources told PTI on Thursday. OYO has appointed investment banks like JPMorgan, Citi and Kotak Mahindra Capital to manage its public issue, they added. Comments from OYO could not be obtained at the time of filing the story. The proposed initial public offer (IPO) plan of the hospitality firm follows the spectacular success of Zomato's IPO that ended with a bumper oversubscription on July 16, and was biggest since March 2020.
Bezos wears it on his sleeve, Nadella keeps it quiet
Google boss's absence at US-China internet forum meet raises eyebrows.
The Padma Bhushan was conferred on 17 personalities including N Chandrasekharan, chairman of Tata Sons, Krishna and Suchita Ella of Bharat Biotech, Cyrus Poonawalla, Satya Nadella, chairman of Microsoft, Sunder Pichai, chairman of Google.
Cricket-loving Satya Nadella will get a base annual salary of $1.2 million as new CEO of Microsoft, but his overall package after taking into account bonus and stock awards may reach $ 18 million (Rs 112 crore) a year besides various other perks.
Jack Ma who had five years ago said he was inspired and excited by "Make in India" possibly understood the essence of the signature campaign better than some others and decided to stay away from India other than as an investor, says Nivedita Mookerji.
"The world is global, whether you like it or not."
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