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March 11, 2016 Indian School of Business gets all-time high of 1,093 job offers
ISB’s flagship post graduate programme in management is a year-long course and costs around Rs.25 lakh. Hyderabad: The Indian School of Business (ISB) has grabbed an all-time high of 1,093 job offers this year. ISB has 812 students in its two campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali. On Thursday, ISB said that it has seen a […]
ALL DEALS March 8, 2016 Indian start-ups at risk as investors step back, PM Modi’s fund falls short
Flipkart and Snapdeal have attracted big-name backers like Accel Partners, Temasek Holdings and SoftBank, enthused by growth potential. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Mumbai: After pumping billions of dollars into Indian Internet start-ups in the last 24 months, global investors are cutting that flood back to a trickle as dreams of huge online sales are clouded by […]
ALL DEALS March 8, 2016 Amazon pumps Rs1,696 crore into Indian unit
The latest infusion, which came in December, is the single largest tranche of funds received by Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd, the Indian unit of Amazon, since 2014, according to documents filed with the Registrar of Companies. Photo: Reuters Bengaluru: Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, has infused an additional Rs.1,696 crore into its […]
NEWS March 4, 2016 Why Morgan Stanley’s action on Flipkart is bad news for Indian unicorns
Given that Flipkart is expected to list its shares in the US at some point over the next few years, the valuation estimates of the mutual funds will be an important indicator of how stock market investors will value the company. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Bengaluru/New Delhi: Late last month, Flipkart India Pvt. Ltd, the country’s […]
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March 2, 2016 The battle of Indian Internet unicorns
Photo: iStock “I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you…stranger,” so says the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. What he really means is not all change makes you stronger or better. Some changes leave a scar, or break us from the inside. When looked at from the perspective of Internet companies, […]
ALL DEALS March 1, 2016 Meet the first Indian start-ups to adopt IBM Watson platform
A file photo of IBM’s headquarters in Armonk, New York. Kartik Mohla, a graduate in management information systems, used to work at an US investment bank before he came back to India to join his family business that helps companies boost the skills and productivity of their employees. Now, he is the CEO of InspireOne […]
ALL DEALS March 1, 2016 Indian Angel Network invests in Roadhouse Hostels
Roadhouse Hostels currently has two hostels with a total of 80 beds in Goa and Jaipur and plans to add as many as five such properties in Kerala and Himachal Pradesh by the year end. New Delhi: Roadhouse Hostels, a chain of backpacker hostels, on Wednesday said that it has raised an undisclosed amount of […]
ALL DEALS March 1, 2016 As smartphone sales surge, Indian app makers lure venture capital
Photo: Mint Bengaluru: Foreign venture funds are stepping up investments in Indian mobile application makers, betting a surge in smartphone sales in the country will drive demand for home-grown apps, mirroring the trend in world’s biggest mobile phone market China. San Francisco-based incubator and venture capital firm 500 Startups on Tuesday launched a $25 million […]
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February 28, 2016 The Best Indian Mobile Games from Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore
Last week, at Pocket Gamer Connects (PGC) Bangalore, we got to check out a ton of games from Indian developers, both upcoming and well established. PGC is one of the world’s biggest mobile gaming conferences, and included talks from developers from around the world, and the Very Big Indie Pitch event, where developers stood to […]
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February 24, 2016 Indian Economy to Grow at 7.4% in FY16: Industry Body
New Delhi: The Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.4 per cent in the current fiscal year, slightly lower than 7.6 per cent projected in advance estimates of the Central Statistics Office, industry body Ficci said on Tuesday. “The results of latest round of Ficci’s Economic Outlook Survey put across a median GDP growth […]
