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    Will Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon, Paytm have to stop online discounts?

    Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint Bengaluru: One would expect Internet companies to cheer the fact that India allowed foreign direct investment (FDI) in e-commerce marketplaces on Tuesday. As usual, however, the devil is in the details, in particular two conditions attached to the approval of FDI in e-commerce. One, no group company or seller on a marketplace […]

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    Apple Said to Have Hired a Corporate Security Officer Amid Legal Battle With the US

    Apple Inc, amid a pitched battle with the US government over law enforcement’s desire to crack into iPhones, has hired a new security executive to oversee its corporate digital defences, people familiar with the matter said. Apple appointed George Stathakopoulos, formerly vice president of information security at Amazonand before that Microsoft Corp’s general manager of […]

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    Don’t Have Money? 17 Entrepreneurs Who Bootstrapped Their Startup from Nothing

    Think you can’t start a successful business without huge rounds of funding? Think again. There have been plenty of hugely successful entrepreneurs through the years who bootstrapped their startups from nothing. Here are some of the most successful entrepreneurs who bootstrapped their businesses. Entrepreneurs Who Bootstrapped Include … Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak The story […]

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    Start-ups have limitations in traditional business, says Capgemini India CEO

    Photo: AFP New Delhi: Srinivas Kandula, chief executive officer of Capgemini India, and Patrick Nicolet, member of the Capgemini group management board, spoke about the integration of iGate’s business with Capgemini, future areas of focus for the India unit and the challenge from start-ups, on the sidelines of the Nasscom Leadership Forum in Mumbai. Edited […]