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How Slack Technologies developed from an idea for easier office chat to software juggernaut in two years, entirely by word of mouth

It’s late morning on a Thursday in September, and Slack Technologies CEO Stewart Butterfield has convened a meeting with his design and product heads in the company’s low-key San Francisco headquarters. On the agenda is the question that’s been most on Butterfield’s mind lately: how his $US2.8 billion ($3.9 billion) start-up, which makes business-collaboration software, […]

9 Billionaires Entrepreneur Who Didn’t Graduate High School

Did you know that “more than 1.3 million students drop out of high school every year in the US?” Considering that this makes a high-school dropout ineligible for 90% of jobs in the country, is there any reason to think that they’ll find success? Actually, there is. Though I don’t recommend that anyone drops out of high […]

Tata Trusts, Khan Academy enter five-year pact to develop free, high quality learning experience in India

Tata Trusts, and Khan Academy, a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit education initiative founded by educationist Salman Khan, announced that they were entering into a five-year partnership to leverage the power of technology to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere in the country. The partnership will focus on developing tech-enabled, high quality and localised education resources […]

Meet The Richest Man in Asia, Also An Investor in Facebook

Li Ka-shing the richest man in Asia was born in 1928, Chaozhou in China’s Guangdong Province to a school-principal father. In 1940 With the Japanese invading, his father packs up the family and flees to Hong Kong. Dad died from tuberculosis two years later; at 12 Li starts working in a plastic-watch-strap company to support his family. […]

Khan Academy Launched in Hindi Version

Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre. They also published a small press release on it’s Khan Academy Blog – Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi, […]

Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here’s How He Did it

Brilliant. Passionate. Overbearing. Impatient. Steve Jobs’s management style has been described in many ways, both positive and negative. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying what he accomplished: Within a short time, he built the most successful company on the planet. Before that, though, Jobs was actually forced out of Apple (in 1985). A […]

What kind of Startup Services a “Bikaneri Sweet Shop” Owner Needs?

Recently India has popped out as a huge market for the startup world. It is yet developing and is attracting not only corporates but local vendors and distributors. It is not to be reminded how companies, that were started just in a room have now achieved a huge success that used to take centuries to […]

HCL Technologies Acquires CRM Services Provider PowerObjects

HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider, announced today that it has acquired Minneapolis-based PowerObjects – a leading North American provider of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This will bolster HCL’s global applications business, which offers transformational programs and complex application management for a myriad of clients’ technology landscapes. PowerObjects is a professional services firm completely […]

Quikr Launches QuikrServices to Organize the Unorganized

Quikr, India’s No. 1 cross category classifieds business, has launched QuikrServices with a special focus on the unorganized sector of service providers across the country. Quikr has been facilitating buying, selling and rentals across 12 categories via its platform, and its new vertical provides easy access to reliable service providers across sub-categories such as home, […]

Modi didn’t start ‘Digital India’, it was Rajiv Gandhi: Sam Pitroda

Noted technocrat Sam Pitroda, who is credited as the father of the nation’s telecom revolution, on Tuesday flayed the Narendra Modi government for snatching away all the credit for the digital revolution started by Rajiv Gandhi, saying Modi “did not” initiate the digital India drive. “Modi didn’t start digital India…It’s a journey which started 25 years […]

Holidify raises angel round to strengthen its technology and expand to more holiday options

Holidify, a Delhi-based startup founded by IIT Bombay alumni has recently raised an angel round of funding of $100K led by Promoter of Aarti Group (BSE: AARTIIND). The promoter family of Aarti Industries has earlier invested in education startup Places, Bewakoof.com and Humming Whale, creator of Gladius Technology Cricket Bats. The funding round also saw […]

Meet Manisha Who Changed India’s Medical Advisory Service

As rightly it is being said, “Good health leads to good brain and good brains leads to good life.” And we all know how important it is to stay healthy and stay fit. In this era of being busy and running after other luxuries, we often forget what it is to stay in good shape. […]