With the median age of 27, India has the largest number of youngsters and the Google chief says that they’re born digital with a growing insatiable need for the internet. When it comes to the internet, the growing tribe of emerging businesses on the internet can’t be ignored. Anandan feels that t…
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Cisco betting big on SME sector for growth, to triple customer base to 90k
IT hardware giant Cisco is betting big on India’s Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector for growth. Company is looking to increase its customer base from 30,000 to 90,000 over the next three years. “We have about 30,000 SMEs customer in India and over the next three years we aim to triple this t…
Start-up Jhakaas offers tech-based tools to bring SMEs close to customers
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India find it difficult to meet the demands of consumers due to limited access to sophisticated technologies such as Big Data analysis and machine learning. This is exactly where a handful of tech start-ups are looking to chip in, with technologies tailor-ma…
Number of sick MSMEs in India doubled in four years
Chennai: The number of sick Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has doubled in the last four years, the Minister of State for MSME Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on April 10. The reply provides figures made available by the Reserve Bank of Ind…
Higher production costs impact manufacturing competitiveness
Mumbai: Rising production costs significantly impacted manufacturing competitiveness in the last few months, according to a survey. Industry body FICCIs latest quarterly survey on manufacturing suggests slight decline for the manufacturing sector outlook in the fourth quarter (January-March) of t…
Why Indian SMEs need to partner with IoT platforms
The Make in India initiative aims to boost the contribution of the manufacturing sector from 15% to 25% of GDP, by 2022. While the market is buoyant and some changes are visible, it seems we will take much longer than anticipated to get the desired results. If and when this growth happens, there …
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International Chamber of Commerce pushes for e-Commerce agenda at WTO
New Delhi: A key global business lobby group has petitioned the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to begin talks to open up cross-border digital trade for small and medium companies and allow them to sell their products across borders through e-Commerce. The International Chamber of Commerce has pro…
Investors get drawn towards SME IPOs
While large size IPOs are getting improved responses from investors, with some over subscribing two to four times on the main platforms of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE), SME IPOs are not lagging behind either. According to the investment bankers, investors’ t…