Microsoft to offer cloud services to Indian start-ups

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 22:12

Cloud services such as software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service are provided by vendors over the internet to enterprises across verticals to drive their businesses.

NSE gears up for e-IPOs, start-ups

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 20:55

To ensure smooth implementation of new norms for e-IPOs and listing of start-ups, NSE on Tuesday asked trading members to upgrade infrastructure and provide adequate training to concerned officers.

Google `campuses` give tech startups room to flourish

Last Updated: Friday, July 3, 2015, 07:13

In a nod to its humble beginning in the garage of a Silicon Valley house, Google is building "campuses" around the world intended as fertile ground where entrepreneurs can flourish.

Start-up IPOs: India Ratings talks of funds misuse risks

Last Updated: Thursday, June 25, 2015, 20:27

The recent decision of Sebi to ease the initial public offering (IPO) norms for start-ups is likely to pose a risk as the funds raised are liable to be misused, says a report.

SEBI relaxes listing, fund-raising norms for start-ups

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 22:01

The new norms are aimed at encouraging Indian entrepreneurs and their technology and other start-ups to remain within the country, rather than moving to overseas markets for funds.

Startup EduKart raises $1 million

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 15:19

Education marketplace EduKart today said it has raised USD 1 million (Rs 6.4 crore) from Holostik Group's United Finsec (family office arm), cricketer Yuvraj Singh's YouWeCan Ventures and early stage fund, 500 Startups.

E-commerce startups asking high price for parting stakes: Tata

Last Updated: Friday, June 19, 2015, 00:03

Stating that startups in e-commerce segment are asking for too high a price for parting stakes, Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata today took a dig at the fledgling sector, saying "valuations" and not "evaluations" are driving the play.

India IT behemoths revamp culture to attract young talent, battle start-ups

Last Updated: Thursday, June 18, 2015, 08:50

Those young set-ups say they go beyond cookie-cutter solutions and argue that they do the job more quickly and for less.

China's loan-hungry developers move from shadows to cloud

Last Updated: Friday, June 12, 2015, 13:12

Faced with reluctant banks and trusts, developers welcome the rapid growth of an alternative source of funds, but scaling up this immature market carries systemic risks.

Intel launches investment fund for minority, women-led firms

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 09:42

Intel is launching a USD 125 million investment fund for technology startups led by women and minorities, a move the chipmaker says is aimed at changing the face of Silicon Valley.

Intel pledges $125 mn for start-ups that back women, minorities

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 22:40

Following up on its earlier pledge to spend $300 million over the next five years to improve diversity, Intel Corp promised more on Tuesday, this time to back companies with women and minorities in leadership roles.

Startup listing norms soon; need to retain them in India: Sebi

Last Updated: Sunday, June 7, 2015, 16:21

"We have created separate platforms for SMEs at the two top exchanges BSE and NSE. We have balanced the requirement of safeguarding the investors and also facilitating the fund requirement of the SMEs.