Every year, Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) honours Tech Pioneers IT companies for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest caliber, and whose technologies will have a deep impact on business and society.
To make it to the elite list, a company must be involved in the development of life-changing technological innovation and play a positive impact on people’s lives. (more…)
24 Jul, 2009, 1617 hrs IST,IANS
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NEW DELHI: Microsoft founder Bill Gates said it would be a “big mistake” if the US imposes curbs on the entry of skilled workers from abroad, putting his weight behind “smart people” from countries like India who want to work overseas. (more…)
Sumir Chadha and KP Balaraj founded Sequoia Capital. In the last 22 months, Sequoia has invested in 10 start-up firms from its $300 mn third India-focused VC fund. No other fund has invested more in this period.
Companies That Sequoia Helped Grow To $100 Million (more…)
In today’s excerpt - the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which a number of economists view as the direct antecedent to our current financial crisis:
“In the 1990s, Asia was ‘hot’: observers were smitten with the Asian ‘miracle’. Exactly why was puzzling. (more…)
A house in South Africa where Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi lived in the early 1900s has been put up for sale.
The house’s owner says she has failed to find an institution interested in preserving the building’s legacy, so she is selling it on the open market. (more…)
In today’s excerpt - the concept of a nation, in the modern sense of a place which is a primary source of identity for its inhabitants, is a very recent phenomenon:
“Of the many ways in which we can define ourselves, the nation, at least for the last two centuries, has been one of the most enticing. The idea that we are part of a very large family, or, in Benedict Anderson’s words, an imagined community, has been as powerful a force as Fascism or Communism. Nationalism brought Germany and Italy into being, destroyed Austria-Hungary, and, more recently, broke apart Yugoslavia. People have suffered and died, and have harmed and killed others, for their ‘nation.’ (more…)
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An expat must adapt to the genteel workplace in Singapore, says Bharat Puri, Cadbury’s global chocolate category director.
26 Jun 2009, 0110 hrs IST, Roli Srivastava, TNN
MELBOURNE: An estimated 75 per cent the 96,000 Indian students in Australia currently are pursuing “vocational courses” such as hair cutting, hospitality or even cooking in little-known private institutions that have mushroomed in and around Melbourne over the last few years. Most of these students use these courses as a route to apply for Permanent Resident (PR) status. This phenomenon is at the root of the string of attacks on Indian students here over the last couple of months. (more…)
Lalit K Jha in Washington July 08, 2009
A US-based Hindu advocacy group has asked American fast food chain Burger King to immediately remove an advertisement campaign featuring Goddess Lakshmi, which it say is “offensive” to the people of the faith.
Washington-based Hindu American Foundation said Burger King is running a print advertisement in Spain that depicts an image of the goddess seated atop a meat sandwich and other foodstuff with the catch phrase, “A snack that’s sacred,” in Spanish. (more…)