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Keynote: Who Owns Digital Transformation?
Below are excerpts of a recent Keynote by Sanchit Vir Gogia on the topic: Who Owns Digital Transformation?
Want To Buy Property In Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, More; Soon, Try Amazon.in
Want to buy property in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon and more? Read on. Amazon, last year did two online property events to advertise their property. One with Tata Housing and the other one with Magic Bricks. Housing.com, Magic Bricks…
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After Roti and Kapda, Amazon Bets On Makaan
Jeff Bezos-led Amazon, which is breathing down Flipkart’s neck in India, is likely to soon list houses and apartments, or run promotional campaigns to generate leads for real estate firms, a top company source said. The company may take a…
“The World Better Be Ready For Automation”: Ganesh Ayyar Of Mphasis
About two years ago, Ganesh Ayyar, CEO of Mphasis Ltd, began interacting with his younger, digitally-native employees to understand the moorings of a new generation. In his interactions he noticed deep underlying currents that could completely change the way these…
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Verizon Inks Deal To Acquire Yahoo For $4.83 bn
by Yahoo! Inc. has agreed to sell its core operations to US telecom giant Verizon Communications Inc. for $4.83 billion in a transaction that marks the end of the Internet pioneer as an independent company after a two-decade-long journey. Greyhound…
Verizon Acquires Yahoo For $4.8 billion In All-Cash Deal
Yahoo, one of the biggest Internet services companies of yesteryears, has been acquired by US telecom major Verizon for $4.83 billion in an all-cash deal. While the acquisition is being seen by many analysts as the end of the road for…
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Verizon Buys Yahoo, Puts It In Competition With Facebook, Microsoft And Google: Analyst
Yahoo, that has been restructuring its business for year now, finally sold out to Verizon. Verizon sealed the deal for $4.83 billion, all in cash. This acquisition gives Verizon access to Yahoo’s advertising technology tools such as BrightRoll and Flurry, assets…
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Building A Company Is Larger Than Just Raising Money And Cashing Out
20 Quotes From Indian Startup Journeys... The future is in platforms - Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Futurist, Founder and CEO of Greyhound Knowledge Group. Source: YourStory.com
India’s Tech Center Underdog Fights Back
Considered to be one of India’s most developed cities, Pune is making a name for itself as a go-to tech hub in the country. In recent years, the city has seen an exponential growth of its startup community and may…
Why AWS Announcement Heralds Public Cloud War In India
On 28 June, when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its sixth Asia Pacific (APAC) Region in Mumbai, India, it did nothing short of telling its competitors firmly, especially Microsoft and IBM, that it was stepping up its…
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Indian startups witness a sharp 59% fall in funding in Q2 2016: Report
Startup firms in India raised $583 million (about Rs 3,915 crore) in the second quarter this year, a sharp fall from the $2333 million (about Rs 15,666 crore) they raised a year ago, indicating falling valuation and a bearish signal…
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On Top Of Cloud
As oracle programmers rewrite fresh codes for its cloud services, the company is scripting a new history. It is transforming itself into a cloud-first company. Some industry watchers might argue that it is a tad late in entering the realm of…
5 Reasons Why Symantec’s Acquisition Of Blue Coat Matters To The CIO’s Office
On 12 June, 2016 Symantec announced its agreement to acquire Blue Coat for USD 4.65 billion. As a result of this acquisition, the company will now have 385,000 customers, a vast repository of data sources and over 3,000 researchers and…
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One Year On, What’s Plaguing Digital India’s Success?
aPM Narendra Modi’s highly ambitious Digital India Program completes a year of its existence today. In the last one year, several initiatives were announced by the government – from the launch of MyGov.in portal to BharatNet and E-sign to Wi-Fi…
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Who Should Be Your Cloud Driver On The Digital Highway?
It’s not an easy task to choose a cloud computing services provider, especially when companies like Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., Oracle Corp. and VMware Inc. are pulling out…
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Amazon Opens Data Centres In India
As a part of its commitment to invest $5 billion in India, Amazon on Tuesday launched its first set of India data centres in Mumbai to cater to cloud computing services here unleashing a new race for the top cloud…
Amazon Launches First Cloud Data Centre In Mumbai
As a part of its commitment to invest $5 billion in India, Amazon has launched its first set of India data centres in Mumbai to cater to cloud computing services here unleashing a new race for the top cloud provider position…
Karan Bajwa to join IBM
IT veteran Karan Bajwa, who was the Managing Director of Microsoft, is set to join IBM. Bajwa tweeted that he is a reborn IBMer. He was in charge of sales and marketing operations of Microsoft. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst…
AWS Announces New Asia Pacific Region – Here’s Why It Matters!
On Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its sixth Asia Pacific (APAC) Region in Mumbai, India. The new AWS Mumbai Region consists of two separate Availability Zones at launch. This news is part of the…
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Companies trying to use bots in HR-related functions: Study
Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) are starting to pilot the use of bots in HR-related functions. According to a study by Greyhound Research titled Emerging Markets CHRO Priorities 2016, after talking to 750 CHROs, 6 per cent of them are…
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What Brexit Means For CEOs & IT Leaders
On Friday, 24 June 2016, Britain faced a decisive moment when the majority of its population (51.9%) voted in favour of moving out of the European Union (EU). In words of the exiting Prime Minister David Cameron, Britain went through…
Thoughts About Bots In Human Capital Management and Beyond!
In a recent research note we highlighted a key trend about Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) piloting and implementing Workforce Empowerment Systems (WES) to win the war for talent. This trend was noted in our recent Greyhound Research study titled…
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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn
Microsoft on Monday announced a $26.2 billion deal to acquire professional networking platform LinkedIn for $196 per share. The market gave a mixed reaction to the announcement. While shares of LinkedIn surged 47 percent to near $193, Microsoft’s stock was…
Is Symantec/Blue Coat Deal a Game-Changer?
Indian security leaders welcome the move, expected to be finalized later this year, saying it will definitely change the way technology is consumed by organizations, as they expect new innovations to help them tackle future threats more effectively. "It was…
Mint Enterprise Technology Summit 2016
Leslie D’Monte, Technology Editor is in discussion with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO of Greyhound Research, Vishal Dhupar of NVIDIA Graphics, DR Shriram Revankar of Adobe India Big Data Experience Lab and many more such guests in Mint Enterprise…
Will LinkedIn be another failed acquisition for Microsoft?
In its 41 years history, Microsoft has acquired several companies but the biggest success was none other than Hotmail, which was bought from Sabeer Bhatia for $500 million in 1997. However, a repeat of Hotmail is something that Microsoft hasn’t…
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What Does Microsoft Stand to Gain From its $26.2 Billion Acquisition of LinkedIn?
Microsoft announced today that it bought LinkedIn in a $26.2 billion deal, the tech giant's largest acquisition in its 41-year history by a wide margin. So what value does Microsoft see in the professional social networking site? Sanchit Vir Gogia,…
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Why Microsoft Acquired LinkedIn? It’s All About User Insights!
On June 13, 2016 Microsoft announced the agreement to acquire LinkedIn for USD 26.2 billion. Important to note that this is the first big deal under Satya Nadella’s leadership and LinkedIn will continue to operate as an independent company. Albeit…
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Users will get to organise their information better
The acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft will help the duo assist client companies, and even individuals in the personal lives, to organise information and orchestrate their functions better. The deal is expected to give an impetus to Microsoft’s Customer Relationship…
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