'There is no tried and true recipe for creating Silicon Valleys.' 'Attracting and creating a mass of truly dynamic entrepreneurs is at the core and among the hardest and most necessary ingredients.' 'In the US, close to 60% of the top valued tech companies were started by immigrants who found the start-up climate to be superior to where they came from.' 'India would clearly benefit from attracting back its talented Diaspora, but it also needs to hold onto those entrepreneurs.'
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Promising that the Centre will go "all out" to support Bihar in a "big way", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Tuesday said the government is likely to announce projects and schemes in a few weeks time to assist the resource-rich state.
Robo Brain -- a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources -- is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals.
Find out if your favourite business school features in the list.
Founded in 2006, PremjiInvest's assets under management are worth over $2 billion across India
Sikhs have been mistaken for terrorists and radicals and continue to suffer after 9/11 terror attacks in the US, community members feel following the latest attack on an elderly Sikh man in California which is being probed by police as a hate crime.
'The fact that Kalanick and others managed to build such great companies, in spite of their apparent foibles, should give us hope,' says Vikram Johri.
Over 200 teachers from across India and abroad have written to Delhi University's vice-chancellor asking him to revoke Professor G N Saibaba's suspension so that he can rejoin his college.
Srikanth Bolla, CEO of Bollant Industries, has set his sights on changing lives
New Google CEO Sundar Pichai made ascent with low-key style and technical chops.
In just three years the online real estate portal has managed to raise about Rs 270 crore.
What matters is the culture and the atmosphere of the workplace, and whether employees get treated fairly. 'It is also important for the employee to feel s/he is part of a winning team,' Credit Suisse's Mickey Doshi tells Niraj Bhatt.
Bringing in people with large corporate experience also helps in bringing in world class processes in quality and compliance
Eugenie Bouchard's mid-season nosedive continued on Tuesday as the Canadian was swept aside 6-3 6-4 by Croatian qualifier Donna Vekic despite having home advantage and the backing of an excited crowd in a first round clash at the Rogers Cup.
Recruiters want to know if you can express your ideas clearly, confidently in a group, solve problems and take decisions.
'In the next 14 years, 100% of US energy will be clean and solar.'
Frilp will help you discover and share valuable information through word-of-mouth recommendations.
There is no substitute for hard work. I think the smartest people in life don't get ahead. It's the hard working people who do, says Rishad.
Dr Manjiri Bakre's OncoStem is revolutionising breast cancer treatment. And has raised $6 million to do more!
Leading the Indian-Americans on the list is 49-year old Aneel Bhusri.
'It was a big relief to get it out of the way. Now he can concentrate on future progress.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
'Vishal Sikka may have realised that he was in no position to deliver on the promise Infosys made to its shareholders.' 'Perhaps he was looking for an escape route and he quit under the cover of "continuous drumbeats of distractions",' says Sudhir Bisht.
In a start-up set up, nothing is fixed, not even your job-description
Travel is all about venturing into unchartered territory, and experiencing new cultures and people. Starting up is very similar.
While chips have become ubiquitous, Moore's Law has remained a self-fulfilling prophecy even half a century later. Not bad for an industry where the time scale is not measured in decades and centuries, but in annual quarters, says Shivanand Kanavi.
'Sundar Pichai is not only a great engineer but a good leader too'
In an interview with Business Standard, Mazumdar-Shaw spells out her plans for the institution over coming years.
Take a look at the 10 biggest IT deals ever.
Funding Indian start-ups has slowed down.
Software employees can opt for company-run programmes, online courses, boot camps to upgrade skills.
The companies experienced a drop of 5,436 approved petitions (37 per cent) in 2016 as compared to previous year, a report by the National Foundation for American Policy, a Washington-based non-profit think-tank, said.
This makes him corporate India's biggest donor to society.
15 per cent of startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indians.
The war of words between China and the US heated up on Tuesday with an American Admiral defending last week's US naval ship's foray near Chinese-made artificial islands in the area while Beijing blasted the move as a "blatant provocation".
Meet 20-yr-old Aditya Vikram, a self-learned app developer who chose starting a business over a formal education.
Sri Srinivasan, the first Indian-origin federal judge in the United States, is India Abroad Person of the Year 2013
During her tenure, Facebook's users in the country have grown from 8 million to 138 million, making India its second largest market after the US
