Having raised $1 billion from the Japanese investor SoftBank, India's hospitality unicorn Oyo entered the U.S. market by opening an office in Dallas, and is testing the market with OYO Townhouses in Austin, Texas. The company generates most of its demand directly, and its customers book rooms via its mobile app. Oyo focuses on the...
Indian-American Raj Subramaniam now CEO of FedEx
Rajesh Subramaniam, an Indian-American IIT-Bombay graduate, is now the president and CEO of Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx Express. Subramaniam is a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, and also has an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin. He has been with FedEx for more than 27 years,...
Epicor Expands Tech Center in India
Austin, Texas-based Epicor Software Corporation, provider of industry-specific enterprise software announced the opening of new office premises for its existing technology center in Bangalore. CEO Steve Murphy, who inaugurated the center said, "India is an important part of our growth plans—with a solid distribution partnership and the expansion of our...
Dover Fueling Solutions Wins Another Order from BPCL
Austin, Texas-based Dover Fueling Solutions scored on two fronts in December 2017, in India: the company was awarded a fuel dispenser tender from state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), India’s leading oil marketing company, and it announced the opening of a new factory in Navi Mumbai. The fuel dispenser order...
U.S. Fashion Designer Connects East with West
Ruby Bhandari's passion for designing began even as she was a teenager. Born in New York of Indian descent, the University of Texas, Austin graduate set up Silk Threads in northwest Dallas where she offers ready-to-wear or custom-designed dresses, custom bridal wear, Indian American styles, and fusion menswear. Her creations are...
MIT Grads Provide Biodegradable Sanitary Pads to Rural India
A startup, Saathi (meaning 'companion' in Hindi), founded by three graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate from Nirma University in India, is hoping to improve access and waste disposal of sanitary pads for women in rural India. 275,000,000 women in India cannot access pads because they are...