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Home Oracle's loss, Google's gain: Thomas Kurian joins as head of Google's cloud business
Thomas Kurian is expected to bring to the table his knowledge and expertise of putting great cloud products out in the market by listening to the developer community. In shopping parlance, one would call getting a great product, at whatever cost, a steal. But, when an ace technocrat gets picked up by a global tech giant, it is considered gold. On Friday,...
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Home How this photographic society has been a creative force for 60 years - and is still going strong
From the analogue to the digital era, this community of photographers has entertained, educated and energised citizens across the country. The Bangkok Art Biennale 2018 focuses not just on art and installations, but photography as well (check out Part I and Part II of our photo essay). Some of the photography sections at the art festival focus on...
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Home Funding activity almost grinds to a halt; PhonePe crosses 1B transactions in over 2 years
The second full week of November will probably go down in startup history as the week that Flipkart was left without a founder at the helm. It was a shocking development, to say the least. In contrast, this week saw just $8.95 million raised across nine deals, an 86 percent drop from last week's already paltry $65 million across four deals. Further,...
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Home [Weekly funding roundup] The week that Binny Bansal quit also saw funding activity almost grind to a halt
The second full week of November will probably go down in startup history as the week that Flipkart was left without a founder at the helm. It was a shocking development, to say the least. In contrast, this week saw just $8.95 million raised across nine deals, an 86 percent drop from last week's already paltry $65 million across four...
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Home How to master the four types of business stories - and make storytelling a successful habit
This useful book explains why storytelling is important in the world of business, what kinds of stories can be crafted, and how to use them effectively on a regular basis. Types, tools and techniques of the craft are well explained in the new book, Stories at Work: Unlock the Secret to Business Storytelling by Indranil Chakraborty. Storytelling is...
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Home Startups in NetApp Excellerator's 3rd cohort have innovative solutions to improve healthcare outcomes, prevent losses due to bad data, and deliver robust data security
After two successful cohorts of its accelerator programme for B2B startups, global data management giant NetApp launched the third batch of the NetApp Excellerator in September this year. From over 300+ applications received from startups working across diverse areas such as...
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Home [App Fridays] How Virat Kohli's official app seamlessly marries milestones, fans, contests, ecommerce and more
If you're a fan of Virat Kohli, this app might just be the best thing out there! Here's why. Celebrity apps aren't a novel affair. Consider this: in 2016, out of the 100 people who made it to Forbes' Celebrity list, 30 had their own apps . Surely, the percentage has improved over time. The number of celebs has...
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Home OYO appoints new CEO; Digital disruption to add 1.4 M IT jobs by 2027
OYO has a new boss! Hospitality startup OYO on Thursday announced Aditya Ghosh to be its new CEO for India and South Asia, effective from December 1. This comes as a part of the company's efforts to continue to invest in and attract world-class leadership in the wake of its focus to drive accelerated growth in its home markets - India and China. The unexpected exit of...
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Home [VC Focus] Iron Pillar on charting the next phase of growth for startups and taking them global
Iron Pillar, which focuses on growth-stage companies in the enterprise and consumer technology space, was founded in 2016 by Managing Partners Sameer Nath and Anand Prasanna, Partners Mohanjit Jolly and Harish Hulyalkar, Operating Partner Ashok Ananthakrishnan, and Partner and Chief Financial Officer Ashish Shah. Together, the six offer Indian...
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Home India-Singapore partnership to propel entrepreneurship, fund flows and create more opportunities for both countries
SouthEast Asia is the next big market of the world, and the region is and has been for some time now, the hub of most business activity. Whether in terms of economic activities, startup buzz or innovations - this is the place to be. These are being aided by policies by various countries in the region. And taking the lead are the...
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