When Nirmal Jain, an IBM employee, was about to be sent to Jordan on his first onsite posting, his family had serious concerns about security. However, for Jain, now 24, it was a blessing in disguise. IBM paid him a…
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Blackstone India takes Mphasis off HP’s hands for ₹7,100 crore
Private equity player Blackstone India announced that it will buy Bengaluru-based Mphasis for ₹7,100 crore, making it the largest deal in India and bringing to a close speculation over the future of Mphasis. The PE major will acquire Hewlett-Packard’s 60.5…
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With a million sales, mobility security company Airwatch gains traction
VMware’s mobility security company Airwatch has sold over a million licenses in India in a little over a year of operations, and is being looked at as a serious name in the mobile device management space in India. According to…
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Join Sanchit Vir Gogia for Twitter Chat on #APIEconomyChat
Join Greyhound Research (@Greyhound_R) and Sanchit Vir Gogia (@s_v_g) for a tweet-up on APIs in Digital Transformation WHEN: Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 1330 hrs – 1430 hrs (IST) See all of our events in the Greyhound At Events calendar. WHERE: Twitter.com or your favourite…
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Bangladesh Bank cybertheft leaves Philippine authorities rattled
The whopping $81 million loss by Bangladesh's central bank in one of history's biggest cyber heists has left the Philippines -- where the money wound up -- scrambling to save face. The Southeast Asian nation's biggest and first cross-border money laundering scandal…
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Starting Trouble: A Dull Investment Climate For Start-ups
Amidst the growing cacophony of e-commerce start-ups announcing plans to raise capital, what goes unnoticed is the fate of many others that struggle to mop up funding after the initial seed round. The past 6-8 months have witnessed a complete…
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Bangladesh Bank purged after cyber heist
Atiur Rahman, Bangladesh's central bank governor who resigned in disgrace on Tuesday, reputedly never took a holiday and once dreamed of completely digitizing his country's banking system. Rahman stepped down after failing to reveal that $81 million had been electronically siphoned to…
From almost selling chappatis online to setting up a successful cloud tech company, how Vinothini Raju did it all
Vinothini Raju spent a decade in corporate, building and testing network protocols, when she stumbled upon cloud technology. At the time there was a global argument amidst technologists about the merits of storing corporate information in a private or public…
Sanchit Vir Gogia on BW CIO 3.0 Awards Jury
Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief analyst and CEO Greyhound Research is a part of the esteemed jury panel along with other industry leaders, who are evaluating and judging the BW CIO 3.0 Awards. About the Awards: To be a next-gen enterprise technology leader is…
Seven things to know before you book Freedom 251
While the world kept asking questions and Indians remained puzzled, a Noida-based startup, promising a Rs. 251 smartphone, on Friday claimed to have received nearly five crore registrations in just two days. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst at Greyhound Research,…
Chinese firm LeEco looking beyond smartphone business
Looking beyond smartphones, Chinese company LeEco is planning to bring its Internet-enabled TVs and cars into India. “Chinese companies are getting more confident of the ecosystem play as they look to move up the value chain,” says Sanchit Vir Gogia,…
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Freedom 251 price: Why Rs 251 is not ringing a bell for everyone
Ringing Bells Freedom 251 could be the real democratisation of the smartphone. At this price, there should be no one in India who doesn’t own a smartphone and everyone should be online within a couple of years. That is the…
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Freedom 251 pricing explained: Just how cheap can a smartphone get?
India has just had another Tata Nano moment, with the world’s cheapest smartphone being announced here on Wednesday. While there is understandable excitement across the country over the Rs 251 price point of the Ringing Bells Freedom 251 smartphone, there…
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Freedom 251: Why the phone at Rs 251 is not ringing a bell for everyone
Ringing Bells Freedom 251 could be the real democratisation of the smartphone. At this price, there should be no one in India who doesn’t own a smartphone and everyone should be online within a couple of years. That is the…
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Snapdeal Still Has A Long Way To Go To Overtake Flipkart
It was not long ago that Kunal Bahl, CEO and co-founder of Snapdeal, announced that by the end of the current fiscal, that is 2015-16, his company will overtake Flipkart as India’s largest e-commerce company. “That will not happen for…
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Apple's Error 53: How, why and what it means to iPhone users
In case you've not realised, Apple is disabling iPhones that have not been repaired through official Apple service centres. This problem even applies to phones that were earlier repaired and were working fine. But now suddenly after the latest update…
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Father didn’t tell him to, but Kavin Mittal took a Hike
Hike Messenger’s new office at the Aerocity in Delhi was designed by Kavin Mittal, its 27-year-old CEO. That is in keeping with Mittal’s career choices; he chooses to build his own things. He could have joined any of the several…
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Avoid BI Failure: Dispel Myths for Risk-Free Solution Deployment
While Business Intelligence (BI) is fast becoming a top priority for most businesses, achieving Return on Investment (RoI) through BI implementation still remains a big challenge for CIOs. Though many CIOs plan to invest in BI going forward, most of…
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Here’s why investor community is kicked about Bansals’ role change at Flipkart
The clear demarcation of roles between founding members Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal of Flipkart was only expected and it was just a matter of time before they exchanged roles or took on different mantles, say analysts who have been…
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Net neutrality debate enters final stages, deadlock continues
Telecom service providers and net neutrality activists stuck to their stands at an open session hosted by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on differential pricing on Thursday. The debate has entered its final stage with Trai giving parties until…
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PHD CCI to debate Net Neutrality and Free basics today
On a cold Thursday afternoon, arguments and counter arguments on Net Neutrality and Facebook’s ‘Free Basic’ could well heat up the Lakshmipat Singhania Auditorium in the Capital. It is here that the telecom regulator’s open house is scheduled to discuss…
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The Rise Of Practo Technologies
The healthcare industry has been dominated by technology providers like Dell, Philips, Siemens and GE. As important as their systems and machines were in capturing ailments and creating healthcare records, patient information was not meticulously maintained. Data was still being…
Why is Tinder opening its first international office in Delhi?
Three years after it launched in India, Tinder has chosen to set up its first international office in Delhi. The social app hopes to make India—which currently does not feature among its top five geographies—as one of its “core markets,”…
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Why is Tinder opening its first international office in Delhi?
Three years after it launched in India, Tinder has chosen to set up its first international office in Delhi. The social app hopes to make India – which currently does not feature among its top five geographies – as one…
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Is TCS losing the race because of slow digital growth?
A favourite among investors at one time, Tata Consultancy Services is fast turning into a mammoth that is failing to evolve with time as others are fast catching up on the increasing demand for digital. India’s largest software exporter’s enterprise…
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A challenging year awaits Indian IT sector
The tepid third quarter performance of India's largest IT exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is hardly good news for India's overall IT sector. The company's dollar revenue for the December quarter slipped 0.3 per cent over the previous quarter, beaten…
US H-1B and L-1 visa doubling of visa fees controversial
The much reported visa fee increases for both the H-1B visa (from $2,000 to $4,000) and the L-1 visa (from $2,250 to $4,500) have unsurprisingly caused some ripples between Indian and US official bodies. This visa fee increase applies to…
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Google India: Mastering The Art Of Winning
India has more startups today than ever before. And each one of them depends on Google as much as on funds for functioning. It is no exaggeration to say every new company opens its email account on Google’s Gmail, uses…
Indian IT outsourcing companies have been on an acquisition spree that will only increase in 2016
Legacy IT outsourcing companies in India continued acquiring aggressively in 2015. Most of the acquisitions were made in areas such as design and automation to help the companies cut costs, and stay ahead of the innovation curve. “IT services companies…
Hike in US visa fee not to have major impact on Indian IT firms
The hike in visa fees by the US will not have any major impact on the Indian IT industry since the quantum of hike is not significant, say analysts. On Friday, the US Congress doubled visa fees to $ 4,500…
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