With India witnessing immense startup growth, the Silicon Valley has invited a group of top 30 Indian startups providing Software as a Service (SaaS) products at a global scale to establish links with Fortune 500 companies in the US. The event, Startup Bridge India, aims to raise awareness among …
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Mobile software start-up Helpshift raises $2 mn from Cisco Investments
Helpshift Inc., a start-up making customer support software for mobile apps, on November 22 said it has raised $2 million of funding from Cisco Investments, a unit of networking equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. This follows a Series B round that Helpshift raised in June, netting $23 million fro…
SMEs find opportunity to migrate to cloud environment at no upfront cost
The bottom of the pyramid for Business-to-Business (B2B) companies are the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and their technology requirements are certainly very different from any large entity. Catering to their needs can be a very tricky challenge as the business volume is certainly high but …
Ronnie Screwvala’s ed-tech start-up UpGrad acquihires Pyoopil
UpGrad, the online education provider for working professionals, Co-Founded by well-known entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, has acquihired Pyoopil Education Technologies, a mobile-based SaaS (Software-as-a-service) product used by companies to deploy online training programmes. Delhi-based Pyoopil, …
BT Joins forces with Microsoft to simplify hybrid cloud
BT announces BT Compute for Microsoft Azure, a new service that allows BT customers to order Microsoft Azure alongside BT’s own cloud services through its award winning Compute Management System (CMS) online management tool. The service enables customers to build hybrid cloud infrastructure with …
LinkedIn launches new product to help small businesses in India
LinkedIn expects to take what it calls ‘Made in India, for India’ products to other markets in the world, the CEO of the professional social networking company said. “There’s a lot of learning from what we are going to do here that we think can be extended elsewhere beyond…
Google zeroes in on cloud offerings
With the Indian cloud computing market becoming increasingly competitive, Google is sharpening its focus on India for its Google for Work, a set of cloud-based offerings for enterprises, to raise productivity and internal collaboration. According to the company, India has become one of the fastes…
Google races to catch up in cloud computing
When it comes to cloud computing, Google is in a very unfamiliar position: seriously behind. Google is chasing Amazon and Microsoft for control of the next generation of business technology, in enormous cloud-computing data centers. Cloud systems are cheap and flexible, and companies are quickly …
Furniture retailer Ikea to invest Rs 1,500 crore in Mumbai
World’s largest furniture retailer Ikea is investing Rs 1,500 crore here as part of plans to have 25 stores across India by 2025 and its first store is likely to come up within 18 months in Navi Mumbai, an official said. It is among the several companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Owens C…
Cloud services high on Microsoft India priority list
Microsoft, the information technology multinational, is raising its focus on security, high-end computing applications and developer community building services on the cloud. Cloud computing is the term for using a network of remote servers, hosted on the internet, to store, manage and process da…