Video game maker Activision Blizzard will buy “Candy Crush Saga” creator King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion, as the heavyweight of console and PC-gaming makes a major push into the faster-growing mobile market. The deal is one of the biggest in the industry in recent years, more than twice the size of Microsoft Inc’s $2.5 […]
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 […]
I am constantly surprised to what limits the young and dynamic human minds are pushing their limits regardless of the fact of their age, surrounding, and no matter how tough the conditions be. The startup I was about to interview was a piece of work done, not by a person who had tremendous experience of […]
Written by Prashin Chaturvedi, Business Transformation Leader – India’s Prime Minister Mr. Modi visited the Silicon Valley last month, and on the itinerary were the obvious inclusions – Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Also on the list was a curious entry – Tesla. Why Tesla? Modi surely did not make the high-profile visit to get an early […]
Lesson #1: Investors love to make excuses on why they don’t want to invest When we first started pitching Crazy Egg, no investor would write us a check. It wasn’t their fault as my co-founder and I sucked at pitching. They all had different reasons why they didn’t want to invest. After getting over 20 […]
The ads are inescapable. They stare at you from hoardings at busy intersections, bellow at you on live TV and cover the entire front page of major newspapers. Approximately Rs. 3500 Cr worth of traditional media advertising is bought annually by internet companies, typically peddling their smartphone apps.
A strange thing happened at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29. I was learning more about the Google Domains interface, and typed google.com and clicked search domains. To my surprise, Google.com was showing as available! I clicked the add to cart icon beside the domain (which should not appear if the domain is […]
The Indo-US Startup Connect was a unique exhibition of Start-Ups that showcased products from 40 different companies. Forty startups from India are participating in the programme at San Jose, which was planned following PM Modi’s “Startup India, Stand up India” call from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day.
India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday took to YouTube to back Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ campaign focused on connecting 1.2 billion people in the country and said his company would play its part in supporting the initiative.
One of Reliance Industries’ offices in suburban Mumbai became unusually busy last week. The Reason: a second batch of 10 startups joined the country’s largest private firm’s four-month acceleration programme, run in partnership with Microsoft Ventures, to help them scale up operations through mentoring and infrastructure support in exchange of technology and ideas. A month […]
The U.S. celebrity machine thrives on a set-em-up-and-knock-em-down cycle so it’s not surprising that the latest film about Steve Jobs is highly negative. However, perseverating on Jobs’s problematic personal relationships is completely missing the point. CEO’s that treat people like crap are dime-a-dozen. There was nothing unique about Jobs’s management style. What was unique about […]
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