Bill Gates, chief architect of Microsoft Corporation, is expected to boost his company's investment plans in the country besides giving a fillip to its R&D activities.
"In a year dominated by political chaos and bluster, it was a rare brand of steady -- even quiet -- leadership that won the day in the business world. And no one epitomises that brand of obsessively results-driven, team-based leadership more than our new No. 1 Businessperson of the Year," Fortune said.
Kini, is set to return to the United States in June, and will launch his venture in the environment space.
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The richest Asian is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud ($21.5bn) of Saudi Arabia while Aziz Premji heads the Indians on the list.
Communications between the USTR and the world's most powerful pharmaceutical and trade lobbying groups reveal that many raised concerns about India's push to exempt Covid vaccines from intellectual property.
"We have 4,000 professionals in India today, we will increase it to 7,000 over the next three to four years," Bill Gates said at the CII-CEO Forum in New Delhi.
The government aims to increase the number of Indian Institutes of Technology from seven to 12, Union Minister of Science and Technology Murli Manohar Joshi said on Wednesday.\n\n
Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal became the third richest person in the world, trailing only Microsoft chief Bill Gates and US investment guru Warren Buffett.
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.
Bloomberg's data notes that since last year, Bill Gates's net worth has decreased by $1.1 billion, while Ortega's has increased by an impressive $10.4 billion.
Microsoft India has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Uttaranchal government for the rollout of Project Shiksha.
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In the new decade, the scene will change because the banks till recently had been challenged by the fintechs, but the techfins have now entered the arena, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates wants to become Toyota's chief Formula One sponsor.
On Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest, the new title was "Hacked by OurMine Team."
The Musahars, still regarded as 'untouchables' in the state, usually hunt rats for food in the paddy fields.
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.
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Bharti Global is planning to put up more satellites and has set a stiff deadline to launch commercial Internet services by October in the UK, Alaska, northern Russia and northern Europe.
Premji is ranked 13th on Forbes' first ever list of '100 Richest People In Tech', followed by Nadar on the 14th spot.
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We may be witnessing a slow erosion of the democratic republic and the emergence of the police State, warns Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Are the big five using their dominance to shut out rivals? That is the key question, says Prosenjit Datta.
The Chinese President dethroned Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most influential person on the planet.
