A powerhouse line-up mixing Hollywood, diplomacy and corporate America streamed into the White House for President Barack Obama's lavish state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Wipro chairman Azim Premji on Thursday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'The models that may work in one country may not work in another.'
Google's Larry Page has emerged as the 'business person of the year' for 2014, edging past the likes of Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to Fortune magazine.
WhatsApp competes with messaging apps like LINE, Viber and Hike in India.
Nadella has been ranked fifth among 50 global corporate heads by Fortune Magazine in its annual 'Businessperson of the Year' compilation, followed by CEO of Milwaukee-based maker of water heaters A O Smith Ajita Rajendra on the 34th spot, HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri on the 36th position and Banga on 40th.
Let's take a look at billionaires globally who left their studies incomplete and still managed to make it big.
Here are some images of celebrities taking the challenge for the cause. We start with Lady Gaga dressed in here inimitable style.
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
Terming Rajan as "India's prescient banker," Time said he is among a rare breed of "economic seers".
No algorithm based on terrestrial mathematics can make Facebook's WhatsApp deal compute.
Pune-based entrepreneur's unlisted company is already the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world and the networth has been helped by vaccine distribution and manufacturing potential of his business, it added. Recentrly, Serum struck an agreement with AstraZeneca to manufacture 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University.
While Bill Gates tops the billionaire charts, Mark Zuckerberg is this year's biggest gainer.
The social media giant promised that news and views will be checked for veracity and pejorative content will be weeded out.
It's a twist that is sure to have some telecom bosses in Barcelona gritting their teeth.
Facebook said its daily active users were 1.04 billion on an average for December 2015, an increase of 17 per cent year on year.
Three Indians - Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji and Dilip Shanghvi - have made it to a global list of 50 wealthiest people that is topped by Bill Gates.
A keen understanding of the way our brain functions is essential to building sustainable routines and habits that set us up for success, says Jay Kumar Hariharan.
A grouping of Indian and Indian-origin professionals working with tech giants like Google, Uber, Amazon and Facebook have written an open letter against the new religion-based citizenship law and the planned national register of citizens, terming them as "fascist". The letter by 'TechAgainstFascism' on online publishing platform Medium also urged the leaders to refuse to shut off the Internet at the "government's whim" and to ensure that content moderation is not skewing pro-government.
'I am in favour of keeping these talented people here so they can go to work in Silicon Valley.'
The company he inherited has become a very different creature: a mature corporate behemoth rather than a scrappy industry pioneer.
Indian e-commerce companies in particular have been using their Facebook pages extensively to reach out to as many consumers as possible, apart from paid advertisements.
Modi won the online readers' poll conducted by Time magazine for Person of the Year 2016, the second time he emerged winner of the reader's choice poll.
Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich donors.
Investors want to see evidence that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 8-year-old company is delivering on promises to develop a full-fledged mobile advertising business.
Mateen wrote, "America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic State," and, in his final post, "In the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic State in the USA."
The revamped News Feed will be heavy on visuals and allow users to see more of the topics they are interested in.
Out of the world's 1,426 billionaires, there are 29 people under 40 years old.
Google's India-born head Sundar Pichai has come out in support of Muslims saying it is important to have a diverse mix of voices.
Facebook, which went public in May, tripled the amount spent on lobbying activities to nearly $1 million in three months ended June 2012.
They've made their millions much before they completed school! Here are five really, really wealthy techies.
E-mail will follow the destiny of postal letters, which paved the way for e-mails, says Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking giant Facebook.
Bansals of e-commerce company Flipkart and Aditya Ghosh of low-cost carrier Indigo have made into Fortune's young achievers list for their initiatives in creating job opportunities.
It's also among the top five most valuable Internet companies in India, reports Yuvraj Malik.
We bring you inspirational sayings from famous people to motivate you to start fresh in 2013.
A record-breaking year for the world's billionaires.
The seven Indian-Americans are cybersecurity firm ZScaler CEO Jay Chaudhry, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group Romesh Wadhwani, cofounder and CEO of online home goods retailer Wayfair Niraj Shah, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla, managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures Kavitark Ram Shriram, Airline veteran Rakesh Gangwal and Workday CEO and co-founder Aneel Bhusri.
Dhirubhai may or may not have owned the government; it would seem his son wants to own the market, notes T N Ninan.
Building a company is a marathon, says Akshay Bhatia.
Facebook has exceeded one billion active users, an "amazing" milestone for the social networking site that now reaches one out of every seven people on the Earth.
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