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India finally gets a connected vehicle strategy, Tata Motors partners with...
Although 61 million vehicles will be connected to the cloud by 2020 globally, India is still way off from connected cars hitting the road. But Tata Motors is the first Indian company to focus on...
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Cloudy and clueless: why SaaS startups are yet to impress in India?
Apart from Freshdesk and three others, 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...
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Tesco’s Glen Attewell: ‘My father was a weaver, mother worked in textiles,...
The global retailer is at the forefront of the digital revolution in terms of ‘Clubcard’, the loyalty programme, and their innovations in grocery home shopping. Tesco Bengaluru is leveraging India’s...
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iBlocks engineers design robots that can teach kids to dream
The toy market is only $3 billion in size in India, with 95 percent of the market being unorganised. iBlocks wants to disrupt this with its intelligent robots lessons. If you go into one of the...
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How startup Cloud4C is building data backups for large banks and corporates
The business has hit Rs 100 crore in five years, thanks to banks wanting to back up data in a cloud-based architecture. When, in 2012, Sridhar Pinnapureddy wanted to build a cloud-based architecture...
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Don’t be fooled: smoking gets more expensive from today
Be ready to pay six percent more on items that make you pass your time. Today is April’s Fools’ Day, but it’s no joke that a lot of items are going to be expensive with the increase in tax, effective...
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Mayur Abhaya’s Rs 125-crore stem cell company secures future of likes of...
His company – Lifecell – has just bought over the stake held by its investor, Helion Ventures, and is looking at maintaining its position as the largest stem cell network in the country. It is...
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Indian startups can push for global energy conservation: Yuri Sebregts, Shell...
In his 26 years at Shell, Yuri Sebregts has risen from a managerial position to become the executive vice president, Innovation and R&D, and Chief Technology Officer. He has played his part in...
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Grexter works with large property owners to bring rentals down for home seekers
The Bengaluru-based home rental platform manages bulk properties owned by landowners as well as deposits and rent agreements on their behalf. Rajinder Bhatia of Chandigarh has just been recruited by...
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How DoneThing is always ready to run errands for you
This personal assistant platform offers services ranging from buying medicine to having someone take you for a health check-up, from shopping to ordering groceries, sending a courier, to drivers on...
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How Vijai Shankar Raja’s Helyxon is trying to address gaps in in-patient care
Over the last 28 years, Vijai has been in the forefront of building digital radiography equipment. Now with Helyxon, he is trying to make healthcare accountable using data. Even the best of hospitals...
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Guts and glory — how Dr Gurushankar turned a small hospital into a Rs 350cr...
The 37-year-old entrepreneur plugged leakages caused by legacy assets and ruthlessly removed people who did not want to align with his vision. Driving into Madurai district, you are likely to see a...
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How LOBB is creating information symmetry for lorry drivers and transporters
Founded by a team of ex-logistics and tech experts the company believes it can organise the trucking industry, which is fragmented, and make inroads into the $200-billion logistics industry. Ramana...
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i2e1: Satyam Darmora’s gambit which delivered free internet in 4,000 locations
There is so much bandwidth that goes waste in India that by just tapping into a small portion available with retailers there can be free Internet delivered to those who truly need it. The digital...
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Lord of the rings, Amit Kumat’s Rs 850cr Prataap Snacks of Indore eyes gold...
The business of snacking will be worth Rs 35,000 crore in India by 2020, according to research firm Euromonitor, and Amit Kumat wants at least 10 percent of that market. Phraneesh Betkal (name...
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Media becoming collaborative with tech like virtual reality, chat bots:...
The world is transforming faster than we think and Cisco Systems is pushing big to capture the 8.4 billion things which will be connected by 2017. VC Gopalratnam understands communications...
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Made-in-Chennai tiffin box becomes a hit in the US, thanks to Vaya Life
Vaya Life wants to rejuvenate mundane home products like the lunch box with great design and cultural aesthetics. Remember the stainless steel dabba that your mother meticulously packed when you were...
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3 legacy bankers build IBSFINtech to manage $20BN treasury market
There are 6,200-plus companies in India, with turnover in excess of $74 million, which are dependent on spreadsheets and legacy ERP systems to manage critical treasury decision-making, resulting in...
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FMCG companies watch out, these startups mean business
The Indian FMCG market, which is expected to grow to $200 billion by 2020, is set for exciting times with a clutch of startups daring to take on the established players. These past few weeks, Manish...
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Bangalore’s Lavelle Networks turbo-charges legacy lines with the cloud
Every corporate is looking for software that can use the cloud to connect with their global applications, regardless of the private network in each office. Imagine you are a global automobile...
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