Nikesh Arora has an engineering degree in electronics and worked for a brief period at Wipro, selling computers.
With all the brouhaha over GST, and (often) a limited understanding of the long-term forces shaping India's logistics sector, companies seem to have omitted factoring in some underlying trends that could shape supply chain excellence, says Neelesh Mundra.
Tariff cap offers Ola relief in battle with Uber. Though it might hurt their earnings, Ola believes the Karnataka High Court's judgement levels the playing field with Uber.
An interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy,Senior vice-president, ads and commerce, Google.
Mumbai's famous dabbawalas are reinventing themselves to meet the challenge posed by food delivery portals.
Amazon is working on deepening its engagement with young technology companies in the country.
LocalOye is a Bengaluru-based marketplace for local household and personal service providers.
'We had a great product for the global market and we could sell it globally resulting in this amazing growth.' 'When customers come online and buy a product, they don't look at whether it is created in India or somewhere else.'
The Nifty had hit its third successive record high of 7,922.70 today.
India's online listing space is witnessing phenomenal growth.
India has the second-largest user base for LinkedIn after the US. The US-based company, which has over eight per cent of its global user base of 332 million from India, is looking at expanding its product development team in the country, Michael Korcuska, vice-president of product management at LinkedIn told Business Standard.
'It should be considered one of the primary cuisines on Earth,' Zorawar Kalra tells Avantika Bhuyan.
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
Bengaluru has been ranked among top 20 technology-rich cities in the world in a survey done by Jones Lang LaSalle.
The beauty queen turned actor talks about her new athleisure start-up.
The author meets the brains behind Unocoin, the first Indian Bitcoin exchange and merchant processor in India to have raised international funding.
Rahul Yadav, the recently-ousted CEO of Housing.com, says he is too logical to be sentimental about the venture he co-founded three years ago.
Nifty is likely to remain under selling pressure unless and until it breach the 7,700-7,720 levels on closing basis.
The youngest winners of the thriving tech economy, many of whom came of age during the last financial crisis, aren't often interested in the ideas that attracted clients in the past.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
When it comes to embracing newer technology, youngsters are usually much faster than adults. It's this quick rate of adoption that also makes them susceptible to danger.
Five inspiring women who travelled thousands of miles to Hyderabad recently to grow their business and skills share their tales of global entrepreneurship. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listened in.
He may have failed at his first attempt, but 27-year-old Dinup Kalleril, an engineering dropout, is following his passion relentlessly.
Most e-commerce firms with 'Singapore holding structures' would opt out of the new Sebi platform
Ebay will cut around 2,400 jobs this quarter in a bid to improve business efficiencies.
Tech start-up set to change wellness segment with cloud-based services.
Internet entrepreneurs are the next big thing in India.
Walking around InMobi's office, it is hard not to compare what you see here with the images one has seen of Google's global offices.
Education, jobs, health and more: Experts share their wishlist.
Meet Anna Chandy, chairperson of the Deepika Padukone-led Live Love Laugh Foundation.
Perhaps, the most misunderstood aspect is the role of the state.
The Forbes 30 Under 30 list is harder to get into than Stanford or Harvard University. Meet the desis who made the cut this year.
The US is still a place for innovation and entrepreneurship, and it is good to see Indian Americans and immigrants contributing to this in a major way, says K V Seshasayee who visited the US after four years and found the gloom had dissipated.
More than 100 days as the chief executive of India's second-largest information technology (IT) services company Infosys, Vishal Sikka on Wednesday said he was upset at the sector. He added there was a "better direction" the industry must look to take.
Every start-up's dream is to become a unicorn.
One needs to carefully tread the thin but solid line between the sublime & the ridiculous.
'Prices are rock, bottom, developers are ready to negotiate and banks are keen to lend.'
Vistara needs to launch more aircraft into service.
'Some of these companies are India focused, some are overseas focused and some companies are focused on both.' Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California.
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