No money this year, happy if we break even in third year: Vijay Amritraj,...
The Champions Tennis League (CTL) is India’s first international tennis league, launched by promoter Vijay Amritraj with support from the All Indian Tennis Association (AITA), with Indian juniors...
View ArticleWe see over 11,500 software product startups by 2020: Ravi Gururaj, Nasscom
Nasscom Product Council chairman Ravi Gururaj believes there will be more than 11,500 software product startups in India by 2020, employing over 2.5 lakh. Already, more than 800 startups are sprouting...
View ArticleMicrosoft sharpens its cloud edge
Mumbai-based Zing HR, a human resources management firm, had a peculiar problem. Every morning and evening, while registering employee attendance, its data storage infrastructure would get overloaded....
View ArticleInfosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan invests $160,000 in Lookup, which...
Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, who finished his innings at the IT major in October, is back on the circuit. Reuters Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, who finished his innings at the IT...
View ArticleGoogle GOSF objective is not discounts: 5 power points
Google-promoted Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF), which kicked off on intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, promised that it will be another mega show. Google India’s director for e-commerce...
View ArticleGOSF 2014, Day 2: Great Online Shopping Festival traffic hits 7 mn, but...
According to eTailing India founder Ashish Jhalani, Google has left much of the non-digital marketing to participating brands. Google’s Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF 2014) has clocked almost 7...
View ArticleTech powering the life saving wheels: The science of IT in an ambulance
The ubiquitous 108 ambulance is one of the world’s largest integrated emergency services, with 8,300 vehicles in operation, covering 75 crore people. (Representative image: Reuters) The siren of an...
View ArticleConfident of facing Salesforce, Microsoft competition: Sridhar Vembu, Zoho
Chennai-based cloud enterprise software product firm Zoho, which gets 95% of the revenues from overseas markets, has started to focus on the Indian market. The company has grown over 30% annually...
View ArticleDigital shopping bazaar gets bigger
The domestic e-commerce industry, which is poised to double to a $6-billion entity by 2016. When the old guards of India Inc, having dabbled successfully in anything from salt to software, vouch for...
View ArticleBeating Ola with less money is something we’re used to: Aprameya...
Homegrown taxi aggregators had a bull run last year, with investors pumping close to $300 million into market leaders TaxiForSure and Ola. While TaxiForSure mopped up about $40 million, Ola stole the...
View ArticleBritannia eyes more in-house baking to improve margins
Britannia, the Rs 6,500-crore biscuit major, plans to move more of its production in-house. It is targeting in-house manufacturing for 60% of its products, up from the currrent 50%. The company has 12...
View ArticleXiaomi signs up 20,000 sq ft office space in Bengaluru
Xiaomi works as a startup with a skeletal staff and has presently 20 employees in India even as it has sold more than a million handsets until December last year. Reuters After e-commerce giants Amazon...
View ArticleTasting success: With Varun Berry, Britannia gets its mojo back
Biscuits and dairy products maker Britannia Industries was in somewhat of a disarray when its current managing director Varun Berry was brought on board as chief operating officer in January 2013....
View ArticleStartups ready for orbit as Google Inc kicks off Launchpad with Bengaluru...
Launchpad — run by Google’s developer team — had scrutinised over 1,450 ventures before selecting the 20 startups. (Reuters) Google on Monday launched its startup mentorship programme, Google...
View ArticleWe don’t want to diversify in a hurry: Varun Berry, MD, Brittania Industries
Britannia appears to be back at the peak of its powers under managing director Varun Berry. Operating margins have surged in the last two years, driving its growth rate consistently past industry...
View ArticleIntentions are right but need visible gameplan from govt: R Chandrashekhar,...
Ahead of the Union Budget, IT industry lobby Nasscom has met the government and placed its list of demands and expectations from the government. In an interaction with FE’s Anand J, Nasscom president R...
View ArticleFocus now on value building instead of competition worries: Raghunandan G,...
Taxi For Sure, the second largest taxi aggregator in the country behind Ola, sees a lot of synergy in its acquisition. In an interaction with FE’s Sayan Chakraborty and Anand J, founder and CEO...
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