'The tipping point for digital in China was the evolution of the mobile ecosystem.'
The exponential number of downloads can be attributed to a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking people to have the app on their mobiles, combined with the government's push for downloading of the app through other channels, reports Neha Alawadhi.
Experts say the new guideline is likely to hurt foreign players more, especially card companies such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express who process and store credit card transaction data outside of India.
American inventor's thoughts about India is not being well received.
Google Inc is expected to command more than a third of the world's $140 billion digital advertising spending this year
It's seen as a signal that he wants to engage with India Inc at a time when the economy has started looking up.
The move comes at a time when the traditional software maintenance and support works, once the bread and butter for export-driven IT services business, are slowly drying up.
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Hailing from a middle class family, Pichai's family did not own a car or a television during his childhood.
For a time it looked as if Apple would never relinquish the top spot in terms of market value.
US President Barack Obama has written a profile for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Time magazine as it named the Indian leader among the 100 most influential people in the world.
Obama joked comfortably with the eccentric founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
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Samsung which leads the global list takes the 10th spot in India.
By 2020, we should have some 10 listed sports companies, with one or two big enough to be on the Sensex
The IZO platform provides large business houses to jointly use their private IT network along with public network.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon tops the list for the second consecutive year with networth of $147 billion.
Enterprise data management will be a USD 105 bn business by 2020.
Jargon-heavy management bluster is taking over everyday office chat.
The trick is to know how long you are supposed to hold which document, observes Bindisha Sarang.
He topped the list with a personal fortune of $4 billion.
The company did not disclose the valuations at which funds were raised.
Walmart is likely to buy stakes of multiple Flipkart investors, including that of Tiger Global Management and Softbank to end up with a significant majority holding
It will be exclusively available on Amazon.
The so-called 'fourth industrial revolution' will bring ever faster cycles of innovation, posing huge challenges to companies, workers, governments and societies alike
Five Indian-Americans have been named among the 400 richest people in the US by Forbes, a list topped by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for the 21st year in a row with a net worth of $81 billion.
Are we seeing a replay of March 2000? What are the similarities and differences and how worried should we be, asks Akash Prakash.
The ultrabook is a successor to the MateBook X.
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Project Aero will enable creative executives and developers to design AR experiences and new forms of immersive content. But, what makes it special is that for the first time users will be able to design an end-to-end AR experiences with little or no technical knowhow. But, what makes it special is that for the first time users will be able to design an end-to-end AR experiences with little or no technical knowhow.
'Modi is the only chance we have in creating an Indian dream like we have the American Dream out here,' one ohe judges for the 'Code for India' hackathon in California tells Ritu Jha/Rediff.com
Bill Gates with an estimated wealth of $86 billion topped the list for the fourth year running.
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One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
Consumer products like mobile phones and laptops may become cheaper as the overall taxes on goods are likely to come down
Silicon Valley techies and investors who were at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India dinner analyse the parlay for Ritu Jha.
Software developers who tried on an Apple Watch for the first time on Friday predicted a rush of new apps over the next few months.
Snapdeal has a number of shareholders including Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, PremjiInvest, Ratan Tata, Foxconn, Temasek and BlackRock, among others.
Have you decided what will happen to your social networking accounts and your digital possessions when you are no more?
Mumbai is the most hard working city in the world. Mumbaikars work for an average of 3,315 hours annually. In comparison, a full-time employee in Beijing works for an average of 2,096 hours a year, says Shyamal Majumdar.
Adobe has roped in industry veteran Abhay Parasnis to head the firm's technology strategy, particularly its cloud portfolio, reports Ritu Jha.
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