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How IBM India Is Becoming Digital
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Indian IT Eyes Crores Of Rupees In Revenue As Firms Rush To Get GST-Ready
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Greyhound Radio with Rajesh Janey, Dell EMC
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Realigning To New H1B Realities: Infosys Announces Hiring Plans For US
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Greyhound Radio: Bringing Digital Transformation Home
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Dell EMC On Track To Serve Digital Transformation Opportunities
Dell Technologies, the company that was formed when Dell Inc. acquired EMC Corp. for $67 billion, remains bullish on its “long-term” growth prospects. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO of Greyhound Research, said that while the Dell-EMC combine has…
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Irony Of H-1B Visa Policy: Jobs Trump Is Trying To Protect Are About To Vanish Altogether
American President Donald Trump’s policy to protect jobs by imposing restrictions on H-1B visas is unlikely to be of any help to that country and may hurt US interests, say experts. What Trump is seeking to protect are entry level…
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Catch Greyhound Research at Dimension Data Leadership Connect 2017
Catch Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research at Dimension Data Leadership Connect 2017. What is the event about? We are experiencing unprecedented change and disruption in the industry today. Business and technology paradigms are changing at a…
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Era Of AI: Infosys’ Mana Eliminates Need For Lawyers To Process Contracts
Infosys has deployed its artificial intelligence (AI) platform ‘Mana’ to process contracts for a bank in Asia that typically needed a team of 10-15 dedicated lawyers. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, believes AI significantly helps in…
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Twitter Southeast Asia And India MD Brushes Turmoil, Launches Twitter Lite In India First
Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday released Twitter Lite -- a much lighter version of its platform on a web based service in India first. After the turbulence of 2016, Twitter is expecting a smoother year ahead, with the micro-blogging firm…
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H-1B, Singapore Protectionism: Calm Down, This Is No Do Or Die Battle, Indian IT Has Weathered Bigger Storms
With the latest missive from the Donald Trump administration on H-1B visa, cautioning companies against misuse, the immigration issues of the Indian IT sector are back in news. And it is not the US alone that is drumming up protectionism…
Trump Begins Clampdown On H-1B Visas
In a fresh blow to software professionals, the Trump administration has moved to bar entry-level programmers from the H-1B visa programme. “H-1B abuse is very high and it is important to check the abuse. All IT services players will adjust to…
Why Our Startups Stutter Even As Indians-Led Enterprise Firms Scorch Silicon Valley
Shutdowns. Funding crunch. Falling valuations. Firings. By pretty much any metric, India’s consumer internet companies have been going through a rough patch. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, feels Silicon Valley is a way more mature ecosystem. “Indian…
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Cloudy And Clueless: Why SaaS Startups Are Yet To Impress In India?
Software-as-a-service companies are yet to meet their promise of profitability in India. The pricing and customer profile, which is the long tail of SMBs globally, are yet to bear fruit. All these businesses have registered offices and business in the…
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Will Amazon’s Food Retail Foray End BigBasket’s Reign At The Top?
Seattle-based e-tailing giant Amazon.com, Inc has sought government approval to enter India’s food-retailing sector with investments totalling $515 million (Rs 3,368 crore) over the next five years. The company, which is already the number 2 player in India’s fast-growing e-commerce…
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Cognizant Layoffs: Gloom Continues, Jobs In Tech And IT Companies Dry Up
Cognizant, the New Jersey-headquartered software services company with most of its operations in Chennai, is likely to lay off 6,000-10,000 “ redundant and non-performing” employees. “When global competition stepped in, Indian companies went through multiple levels of devaluation – for example…
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WNS Gets Deeper Into Healthcare With Tuck-In Buys
NYSE-listed Business Process Management (BPM) company WNS was always on the lookout for niche and tuck-in acquisitions to augment its capabilities, and the latest in the series is not much different. The focus of the two recent acquisitions was to…
Slack-Rival Flock Gets $25 Mn From Founder For Expansion, But Is It A Good Decision?
While the startup ecosystem is struggling to keep afloat as funds are drying up, here is another story -- of a founder who believes that his company can take on global rivals, and even go global. “The winner in the…
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En halv million nye mobilkunder – hver dag. Alle ringer gratis.
Den indiske milliardæren Mukesh Ambani satser på å lykkes hvor Telenor, Vodafon og andre har tapt enorme beløp. Han har brukt over 200 milliarder kroner for å ta markedsandeler og knuse konkurrentene – også sin egen bror. – En slik…
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Google, Reliance Jio Developing Affordable 4G Smartphone
Google and Reliance Jio may be secretly working on an affordable smartphone that will work exclusively on the latter’s 4G network. The phone is expected to be launched before the end of this year, according to industry sources aware of…
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Google Bets Big On AI, Machine Learning To Crack The Cloud
Google is betting big on its dominance in machine learning and artificial intelligence to break into the cloud market. "The announcements made by Google consolidate their vision in the Cloud space, which helps communicate their seriousness. The SAP partnership will…
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IT Majors’ Share Buyback: Shouldn’t They Fuel Innovation And Support Startups Instead Or Are They Done
Every shareholder is happy when a share buyback is announced. Some even pressure companies to repurchase shares because they see no value in remaining shareholders of the company. And sometimes it is the management that wants to be free of…
Real-Estate Firms Open The Door To Technology Start-Ups
Real estate companies are starting to seek the help of technology start-ups in a bid to save costs as they face meek to zero interest in projects due to demonetisation. “At this juncture, as well as in the foreseeable future,…
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The Metric That Indian Startups Once Swore By Is Now Being Blamed For All The Sector’s Ills
Till a few years ago, profitability received the step-child treatment from Indian e-commerce entrepreneurs. “While startups did extremely well by using their public relations muscle to ensure that GMV becomes the industry’s darling, it’s no more than a cover up…
How Entrepreneurial Dreams Are Lost When Investors Take Over Startup
Fights, ousters and exits are likely to occur when the management of a company takes over from its founders. This is because founders and managements don’t often think alike. In most cases, the board is run by investors who pump…
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Here’s The Scary Truth: Almost Every Major Indian Startup Has Made The Same Mistakes As Snapdeal
India’s bustling startup ecosystem is in a state of hysteria as e-commerce major Snapdeal implodes. “I believe other startups will follow suit and by March more layoffs will be announced in other firms. There isn’t any choice. Companies will have…
Are Job Cuts At Snapdeal A Precursor To Its Merger With Alibaba And Paytm?
If Snapdeal follows the rule of the game, the company would deny any kind of merger talks with rival Paytm, or with investor Alibaba, unless a deal is concluded, at least verbally. “It will offer a new lease of life…
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Uber-Reliance Jio Partnership Signals Larger Battle In Mobile Wallets
Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Jio’s partnership with Uber, the American cab-hailing company announced on Monday, signals a larger battle in the mobile wallet space where Paytm leads with over 160 million users. Airtel could not gather the critical user base while…
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