Microsoft India has believes in the Indian start-ups and has assisted more than 4,000 start-ups in India, conducting skill training for 30,000 people along with 26,000 teachers while working with several state governments and non-profit organisations during FY17 in India, as per its India Citizen…
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Zone Startups to promote WomePreneurs building tech enabled ventures
Zone Startups, the India arm of the Toronto-based tech accelerator has roped in Microsoft, Department of Science and Technology, Tata Trust’s Social Alpha, Cherie Blaire Foundation, ICICI Bank and Amazon to promote women entrepreneurs building technology-enabled ventures…
‘Microsoft sees innovative global opportunities for Indian start-ups’
Fitzpatrick said India is a great place for innovation and some of the greatest things have been happening in the Indian market from innovation perspective. India has gone through the entire maturity of Cloud and starting to adopt and embrace it, she added.
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Microsoft unveils all-in-one-solution ‘Microsoft 365 Business’ to empower SMBs
Microsoft 365 Business is designed for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) with upto 300 customers and includes Office 365 Business Premium, security and management features for Office apps and Windows 10 devices, upgrade rights to Windows 10, and a centralized IT console.
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Lessons Indian entrepreneurs can learn from Israel — the Start-up Nation
In their bestseller, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer raise and try to answer a question: How is it that Israel — a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its foun…
India’s GST launch spawns tech cottage industry for compliance
India’s new Goods and Services Tax (GST), its biggest tax reform since independence, will unify a $2 trillion economy into a single market – and demand massive changes for small businesses that will have to go online to file their taxes. Major software and service players, IT companie…
It’s time for start-ups to move to the next level: NASSCOM
The Indian start-up ecosystem is evolving and it is time for stakeholders to move to the next level and collaborate with the external eco-system, said KS Vishwanathan, Vice President at Nasscom. “It is now time for the companies to move to the next level of mid-stage and growth,” Vish…
EY launches DigiGST to help businesses comply with GST
New Delhi: In a bid to help out Indian businesses floundering to comply with the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Ernst & Young (EY) has announced the launch of DigiGST – an integrated GSP-ASP (GST Suvidha Provider- Application Service Provider) solution that provides organisations with en…
Funding Revival: Chinese & US tech corporates re-energise Indian start-ups
There’s a start-up funding revival in 2017, and it is being driven by Chinese and US tech companies. In 2015, it were hedge funds and pension funds that played a big role in large funding rounds, and it was their retreat that led to the slowdown of 2016. But now, corporate funds have come t…
India adds 40 new start-up incubators in 2016; Surpasses Israel to take-up 3rd spot in highest accelerators
Bengaluru: The government’s initiative to establish 30 incubators in educational institutions under the Startup India programme has enabled India to surpass Israel as the country with the third highest number of start-up incubators and accelerators. India now has 140 such institutions, ahea…