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.
Engineering graduates specialising in artificial intelligence and machine learning can earn up to 24 lakh a year, says Saran Balasundaram, founder and CEO, HanDigital, a talent consulting firm.
Microsoft chief Bill Gates arrived in Patna on his day-long maiden Bihar visit, on Wednesday morning.
The footprints of Indian-origin corporate executives at multinationals is expanding, with Sandeep Kataria taking over the reins of footwear major Bata as its global chief executive officer. From FMCG majors to IT titans, Kataria joins the league of Indian-origin executives who have climbed the highest echelons of corporate across diverse sectors globally. From Nooyi to Pichai to Nadella, the list of such people at the helm of multi-billion dollar enterprises is long.
The extra skills you acquire set you apart, differentiate you from your peers and fast track your career.
The development comes amid Japan's SoftBank booking an investment loss of 39.28 billion yen (USD 350 million) on its investments in India, including those in Ola and e-commerce company Snapdeal.
Like the other platforms, the Clubhouse will have more users in India than anywhere else because of the interest we have in knowing what others are doing and in letting others know about our activities, predicts T P Sreenivasan.
The game delivers in terms of visuals, the roster and the number of modes.
Already 15-20 per cent of the workforce, earlier used to be procured from staffing firms and subcontractors, are replaced by freelancers tapped from platforms like Topcoder, GitHub, and Upwork.
However, his backing as an investor is no guarantee of success for Twitter
A Vodafone Group insider with more than 25 years in the telco across geographies, he's like the eyes and ears of the multinational in India.
Wipro, has set up a venture capital (VC) fund that will look at investing in early-to-middle stage technology start-ups globally.
Mobile application vulnerability detection start-up, Appknox is in talks to raise funds from Singapore-based Jungle Ventures, along with a slew of angel investors including Google India head Rajan Anandan.
We are certainly for digitisation. I do not have opinion about demonetisation. I still don't, says Bill Gates.
Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA's all-time greatest players whose international stardom transcended basketball, was killed at age 41 on Sunday in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others on board, officials said.
Meet Shirish Nadkarni, co-founder and CEO of Livemocha.com.
Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates wants to become Toyota's chief Formula One sponsor.
If Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! goes through, the combination will mean stiff competition for Google and AOL in the Rs 230 crore online advertising market in India that is growing rapidly.
Virtualisation is going to be a key opportunity for software players in the next 3 to 5 years, according to Amit Chatterjee, general manager, Windows Group of Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited.
Goes without saying that the $10 million prize money will be nothing compared to the lifelong accolades that will follow the winner of this contest.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
A company with a size exceeding $1 billion finds it really hard to innovate.
Indian team boasts of world's best spinners and it has enough experience in both bowling and batting to outwit hosts England during the upcoming series, said former coach Anil Kumble.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
Though most of the voice-activated solutions are based in English, work is on to create solutions in Indian languages.
Hailing from a middle class family, Pichai's family did not own a car or a television during his childhood.
IIIT-D team builds algorithm that will help identify synthetic images.
Home ministry sources say there are fears that international lobbies might have been involved in spying, to create a narrative around Indian governance as well as the economy.
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.
Paul Allen became an investor and philanthropist after leaving Microsoft and has been named one of the top 15 philanthropists in America.
Dorsey works to rebuild employee morale and confidence at Twitter after a spate of high-level departures.
Digital assistants are a gateway to powerful artificial intelligence tools
'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.'
Thanks to technological support provided by BlinkIN, a Bengaluru-based intelligent visual-assistance company, engineers in Wuhan were able to remotely install air ventilation systems in two hospitals in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, reports Peerzada Abrar.
Krishna's appointment as head of the global IT giant adds to the growing list of Indian-origin executives at the helm of some of the biggest multinational companies. Krishna joins the club that includes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, PepsiCo's former CEO Indra Nooyi and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen.
'What I would love him to do most is to become a life coach and share his incredible story of struggle, success, and survival,' says marketing guru Sandeep Goyal.
Using Microsoft's Cognitive Services, the selfie is compared to the one corresponding with the account on file. If the two photos do not match, the account is temporarily blocked while Uber looks into the matter.
