An interesting question came on Quora recently: “I see people earning in lakhs per month as a freelancer. Can anybody on Quora guide me to be a freelancer?” (link) My response to the query was as follows: First things first, earning a “Lakh” (hundred-thousand rupees) or about US$ 2–3 […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Google ups investments in virtual reality, acquires startup EyefluenceRead – Google just picked up a key piece of technology that might move its virtual reality ambitions closer to the masses. Eyefluence, which is working to enable eye movements to control digital screens, wrote in a blog post on Monday that […]
DigitalStartup in #News : Week of Nov 6
30 percent of Microsoft employees in New York will receive memberships to the co-working space. By Avery Hartmans [Business Insider@averyhartmans ] Microsoft is dipping a toe into the coworking world by giving nearly 30% of its New York employees WeWork memberships. The company plans to take 300 WeWork memberships -; WeWork’s basic, […]
Microsoft Is Giving 3,000 Employees WeWork Memberships to Bolster Startup ...
In conversation with co-founders of Notion Press, one of India’s fastest growing publishing start-ups What is it like to begin a start-up? Is it ok for friends to work together? How should you deal with disagreements in a way that doesn’t affect your work? This week’s podcast is all about […]
Podcast: It’s good to start a start-up with your friends
Relay is waist-high. It has mood lighting, touch screens, and chirps as it wheels along hotel hallways, delivering Cheetos, Kraft Mac and Cheese, and hairspray to guests. There are only a handful of Relays deployed in several Silicon Valley hotels right now. But Intel Corp., which invested in the robot’s maker, Savioke Inc., thinks the […]
Room Service, From a Robot: The Robots are Coming, With ...
Dive Brief: Enterprises that effectively leverage digital technologies, new business models and entrepreneurial cultures could see huge benefits in the next two to three years, according to a new report from International Data Corp (IDC). IDC laid out predictions and a plan for CIOs and other IT leaders in 2017 […]
Startup methods and ‘adaptive response’: IDC reveals 3-year plan for ...
Retail banking globally is undergoing a thorough shake-up with innovative technologies, from startup to digitisation, finds the eighth annual study ‘Innovation in retail banking’ released on Wednesday by Efma and Infosys Finacle. According to the report, almost 73% of banks consider working with innovative startups as the best approach to […]
Startups make impact on retail banking
*Question posted on Quora recently He’s unhappy about our growth. Anyway, we’re building something useful, it works – and I’m not quitting. However the tech stack (AWS / PHP / docker / grunt…) will be out of my reach for a while – I can become a good dev, but […]
Web Startup: my technical co-founder* is likely to be quitting ...
A startup contest hosted by professional services firm Ernst & Young ended with three blockchain companies receiving honors. The six-week E&Y Startup Challenge accepted six blockchain-focused startups in September, which focused on two application areas for the tech: digital rights management and energy transfer. Bitcoin mining firm The BitFury Group […]
3 Blockchain Projects Win E&Y Startup Challenge
James Nunns 31st October 2016 The artificial intelligence hardware market is getting a new UK-based competitor. Graphcore, a Bristol-based start-up that creates hardware designed for machine learning applications, raised $30 million in a Series A funding found. The company says that its mission is to make machine learning faster, easier […]