Bengaluru: The next step for enterprise startups is to go global and Microsoft is focusing on helping 14 startups in its latest cohort of its accelerator program. The startups are all in their late stage, having an average age of 3.5 years and an employee size of 80 employees.…
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Wipro launches Silicon Valley Innovation centre in US
New Delhi: IT major Wipro said it has set up a Silicon Valley Innovation Centre in Mountain View, California to develop and showcase next-generation technologies and solutions for enterprises. The centre will showcase and demonstrate cutting-edge enterprise applications based on technologies to s…
Access, enablement & affordability are key factors in digital journey of MSMEs: SAP India
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) need to adopt strong tech-enabled business models and processes to make them more efficient and achieve global competitiveness in the quest to become digital, said a top SAP India executive in an interview to IANS. At a time when large corporates as wel…
President Mukherjee bullish on start-ups & SMBs to “fully utilise” demographic dividend
With India on the cusp of creating 50 million jobs by 2020, President Pranab Mukherjee has further laid his trust on start-ups and small businesses. “Every year 10 million persons are entering the job market and not adequate job creation is being done. The solution has to depend on start-ups, we …
Ireland keen to woo Indian start-ups, offers tax benefits
With quite a few nations mulling stronger immigration laws, Ireland, the island in North Atlantic, wants to play a different tune. The Investment and Development Agency (IDA) wants to triple the number of start-ups, IT services organisations, entrepreneurs from various sectors in India in the nex…
Donald Trump’s new plan may create hurdles for PM Modi’s Startup India
The US is all set to become a tax-haven for most companies wishing to save tax after the Trump administration last evening announced lowering corporate tax to as low as 15 per cent from the present 35 per cent. Currently, several Indian tech startups including the likes of Flipkart, Grofers, Prac…
How PPP model is helping Indian industry projects take a lead
Startups are paving way to innovation such that could, if partnered with, lead to the making India a global leader in terms of technology. Government-based projects in India are attracting high-end technological advancement proposed by the great minds of this country. Several startups that are fo…
Start-ups can learn a lot from Infosys, Wipro: Nandan Nilekani
Infosys Co-Founder and Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani said the last few months have exposed various frailities of Indian startups and that it’s the responsibility of everyone in the ecosystem to see how entrepreneurs and companies can build better businesses from a leadership and value system …
Start-up fever remains strong for tech-savvy Indians
Bangalore: In the basement of a Bangalore building, hundreds of young Indians sit in neat rows of desks typing furiously, all dreaming of becoming the new Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. A quarter of a century after liberalisation kick-started India’s economic transformation, a new generatio…
Indian IT will hire more small firms as they look to bridge digital gaps
Indian IT services firms may invest aggressively in acquiring smaller firms in 2017 to enhance digital technology capabilities. A large chunk of these acquisitions by companies such as Wipro, Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys, others will be driven by the need for transformation as…