People Matters TechHR Start-up Program: An Opportunity for Early-Stage HR Tech Start-ups
Gurgaon, Haryana, India: People Matters kick starts its TechHR Start-up Program 2018, to help early-stage HR tech start-ups interact with investors and buyers, and showcase their products to the who’s who of HR community at Asia’s largest HR technology conference, People Matters TechHR 2018. To encourage, identify, and applaud the innovative HR technology and entrepreneurs […]
Read More →India’s First Centre for Design and Innovation to be set up in Gurugram
New Delhi: IVS School of Design, one of the fastest growing design schools in India, recently announced its decision to start one of South Asia’s biggest design and innovation platform, the Centre for Design and Innovation (CDI) in Gurugram. The school is planning to tie up with a major realty company to set up the […]
Read More →US Govt SBA honors Prabhu Patil, CEO of PROLIM, as the Entrepreneurial Success of the Year
Bangalore: Prabhu Patil, President & CEO of PROLIM, has been honored with the “2017 Entrepreneurial Success of the Year Award” by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Dallas, Texas, in recognition of his achievements and role in driving the nation’s economy. This year’s honorees of the year were honored at a luncheon hosted at the […]
Read More →Prime Minister to address participants of Smart India Hackathon 2017 tomorrow
New Delhi: The Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi will address the students participating in Smart India Hackathon 2017 tomorrow i.e. 1st April at 10 p.m through video conferencing. The Smart India Hackathon is intended for promoting innovation, out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially engineering students. It is focused on the problems of social importance as […]
Read More →Artificial intelligence’s (AI) greatest impact by 2020 will be in functions outside of IT such as marketing, customer service, finance and HR
London | Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, has unveiled its Global Trend Study titled, ‘Getting Smarter by the Day: How AI is Elevating the Performance of Global Companies’. Focused on the current and future impact of artificial intelligence (AI), the study […]
Read More →Artificial Intelligence is the need of the hour: ASSOCHAM-PwC study
Mumbai: Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotics and cognitive automation in direct proportion bestow rise in the quality and quantity of training data that the systems are exposed to, the conditions are ripe for India to emerge as a leader in AI, said an ASSOCHAM-PwC paper. India is already on the path of […]
Read More →The President meets Ashoka Fellows
New Delhi: A group of Social Innovators from the Ashoka Innovators for the Public (ASHOKA) including newly inducted 2016 Ashoka Fellows called on the President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee yesterday (February 11, 2017) at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President said that India is a diverse country and this diversity is its strength and needs to […]
Read More →Axis Bank launches crowd-sourcing competition and invites Ideas on ‘Future of Jobs in India’
Mumbai: Axis Bank, the country’s third largest private sector bank, launched the largest crowd-sourcing competition, ‘Future of Jobs in India’, seeking ideas from young minds. The competition, under the aegis of ‘Axis Moves’, is open to all Indian citizens in the age group of 18 to 30 years. Participants, in teams of 2, can select […]
Read More →Top Ten global universities that breed the founders of unicorn start-ups: IITs at fourth
London/Mumbai: Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India’s premier technology institutes, has brought many laurels by enlisting their names in global start-up map. Now, IITs added a new feature in their cap as they achieved fourth rank in the global list of universities that have produced the most unicorn start-up founders. The most popular universities that […]
Read More →Commerce and Industry Minister meets incubators and accelerators of startup ecosystem
New Delhi: The Commerce and Industry Minister, Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman, held a meeting with various incubators and accelerators to receive feedback, understand their concerns and address key challenges faced by them in the startup ecosystem. This is in line with her previous initiative to reach out to various stakeholders of the ecosystem. In the meeting, […]
Read More →First ever China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship international contest launched in India
Bengaluru: Both China and India are considered as the hubs of start-up movement in Asia. To attract the best ideas and talent in innovation and entrepreneurship, both countries are making efforts to collaborate in the start-up ecosystem. Now, the City Government of Shenzhen, China has introduced the first ever China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International […]
Read More →More start-ups co-founded by SPJIMR Alumni receive funding
Mumbai: Two start-ups co-founded by SPJIMR alumni have successfully raised around Rs 450 million in funding, strengthening the Institute’s support and efforts for promoting entrepreneurship among alumni and participants of its various management programmes. These start-ups are TYGR, a game-changing transport and logistics app platform, and Bezahlt, an invoice financing venture in Europe. The institute […]
Read More →Pragun Jindal Khaitan, MD of JAL, bets big on Artificial Intelligence (AI) based startup
Mumbai: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest buzzword in the start-up space in India. The AI-based start-up movement in India is at ascent stage. Now, Pragun Jindal Khaitan, MD of Jindal Aluminium Ltd (JAL), the largest aluminium extruder in India, has spelt out plans to invest in Artificial intelligence (AI) focused start-ups. Following the growing […]
Read More →New funding and incubation support opportunities for social enterprises in 8 low-income states
New Delhi: It is golden chance for social enterprises in eight low-income states to raise their scale. Innovative Ventures and Technologies for Development (INVENT), launched by Technology Development Board (TDB) with support from Department for International Development (DFID), will support more than 150 early-stage social enterprises over three years and make at least 50 of […]
Read More →Co-working spaces set to expand multifold in 2017
Mumbai: Co-working spaces or shared working spaces is one of the most popular trends, supported by start-ups, real-estate and corporate circles. However, the overall co-working spaces’ market is still in nascent stages and is expected to rise by 40-50% in the next year, thereby making the segment as one of the most lucrative industries. As […]
Read More →Party planning, coaching and education, lessons and tuitions, fitness and wellness are the top four service categories that have seen massive growth online local services
Chennai: Sulekha, India’s largest local services fulfilment platform, unveiled a study indicating the key trends and changing dynamics of the Local Services industry in India through 2016. This report is an analysis of the searches that have been done on the Sulekha platform from January to December 2016 across 25 cities in India. Among the […]
Read More →Nominations invited for National Entrepreneurship Awards Scheme 2016
New Delhi: The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MoSDE) Government of India has instituted the annual National Entrepreneurship Awards to encourage a culture of entrepreneurship across the country. These premier awards seek to recognise and honour entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship ecosystem builders for their outstanding efforts. A total of 19 awards will be presented to […]
Read More →Delhi top performer in city-states, Tamil Nadu stands out in innovation driven economies, Sikkim No 1 among north eastern economies
New Delhi: Delhi emerges as the top performer in city-states while Tamil Nadu is the top performer in innovation driven economies as per the 8th edition of the India State Competitiveness Report 2016, released by the Institute for Competitiveness, an International think tank. Among transition economies, Karnataka remains at the top performer while Rajasthan emerges […]
Read More →Over 100 alumni-entrepreneurs meet on SPJIMR campus to celebrate GYB, SYB journey
Mumbai: SPJIMR’s Start Your Business (SYB) and Grow Your Business (GYB), the twin entrepreneurship programmes run by the Centre for Entrepreneurship, have received enthusiastic endorsements from a wide range of alumni who reconnected recently at an alumni meet and awards night. The meet on the SPJIMR campus was the second such celebration exclusively for the […]
Read More →EdTech Vidyartha launches ‘Best in Game Talent Hunt’ initiative across 500 schools in South India
Bengaluru: Vidyartha, an edtech company and first of its kind data-driven learning guidance platform, has launched a ‘Best in Game Talent Hunt’ initiative across 500 schools in South India with The Hindu as its execution partner. The ‘Best in Game Talent Hunt’ is among one of the high impact initiatives by Vidyartha to engage with […]
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