In an address at the Council of Heads of Government meeting of the eight-member SCO, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said the most important challenge faced by the region is terrorism, particularly cross-border terrorism, and that India remained concerned about threats emerging from ungoverned spaces as well.
"In terms of local taxes, in terms of local small business productivity, local large business competitiveness, their educational outcomes, their entrepreneurial work, that's what matters," the Microsoft CEO said.
In India, where it is tougher to do business, a start-up gets established by the Series-B stage, and it gets expensive for investors.
What will it take to get India's poor broadband penetration to be seen as a problem and not as a condition, thus enabling real, serious e-commerce to take off in India?
The television business today contributes 7 per cent to Micromax's revenue and it posted a 70 per cent growth last year.
If India wants to become a globally competitive manufacturing hub, it will have to rethink the notion that the traditional SMEs will form the manufacturing backbone, argues Prosenjit Datta.
India is Facebook's largest market with 250 million active monthly users. Along with Google, it has a 70 per cent share in the Rs 1,000 crore domestic digital ad market.
The total number of states in the country will be now 28 while the total UTs will go up to seven.
Google Glass may face some tough competition from a San Francisco-based company which plans to develop smart Bluetooth-enabled glasses that display HD video and are equipped with a global navigation satellite system.
Founded by a group of IIT alumni, the programme aims to further the cause of education for all by allowing discussion sessions through mobile devices.
For Uninor, it is more important to serve customers better in existing circles rather than going for pan-India operations.
Private labels remain big business for e-commerce marketplaces. They comprise almost 15 per cent of the total business of such firms.
While existing players are expected to first drop prices, acquisition of smaller firms by larger ones is likely in future
Other private banks also planning to employ bots soon
As share of cash volumes in trading mix sees decline, it will result in moderation of profitability from core broking operations.
Analysts believe making mobile data more affordable will fuel mass market adoption of data services
The deal will end months of uncertainty about Yahoo's future.
Paytm's secondary share sale gave an opportunity to its employees - both former and current - to liquidate their vested Esops and earn around Rs 500 crore in total.
Chillr recently raised $5 million from Seqouia Capital.
Tax demands and regulatory hassles, coupled with low internet density and sundry other problems, would have kept Mr Ma awfully busy - and small.
World's largest e-tailer Amazon is evaluating setting up a data centre in India to tap into the multi-billion cloud opportunity in India.
From Singapore to Almora, Abhishant Pant has survived without cash, and he wants to continue in that state all his life.
As India's online population crosses 450 million, e-commerce ventures are trying to grab a pie of online sales estimated to hit $48 billion by 2020.
Indian IT giants are outstanding companies with great management teams, but they have been held hostage by their past success.
Venture capital investments in India's start-ups nearly halved to $1.5 billion in fourth-quarter 2015
ISI sought to intercept all communications passing through the country in 2013, the most significant expansion of its capacity to conduct mass surveillance to date and rivalling that of the United States and UK.
Mittal said that overall, he expected that by March 2018, the "dust will settle down" for the entire industry.
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Babajob.com is trying to help unorganised blue-collar workers get better employment.
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
Individuals who can understand data and go for data driven decisions making using their critical mind will be highly valued.
According to analysts, most of the growth in the smartphone space will come from existing users, who will be lured to upgrade their handsets as new features and technologies turn existing features redundant, says Arnab Dutta.
'.. if the cost is its own survival,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Co-founders of India's latest unicorn expected Covid-19 to be a speed breaker; instead it accelerated sales. Cars24 now enjoys more than 90 per cent market share among all other similar online transaction platforms. Dhruv Munjal traces the birth of this used-cars platform.
The preference for digital banking now cuts across all customer segments.
'AI will be bigger than the advent of the Internet or the harnessing of electricity.' 'India must embrace it with all its might,' says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
"It would be my hope that people understand why this particular transaction is important for us," the EAM said in Washington, DC.
A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur asked the Centre as to what action has been taken in the matter.
Is the Airtel Zero plan really a big blow for net neutrality? Will it end the 'free' internet as we know it? Amidst the hullaballoo over the issue, Sudhir Bisht provides a contrarian view.
Shares of the world's No. 1 online social network soared as much as 15 per cent in extended trading before suddenly falling to $47.40, down 3 per cent from its $49.10 close.
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