Nasscom, an IT-BPM industry body in India, has partnered with Facebook to popularize the product design ecosystem and support over 500 product startups in India. Under the ‘Product Design Initiative’, a flagship program of the Nasscom Product Council, the partners aim to train more than 5,000 product designers over a...
India’s Stock Market Regulator Announces Relaxed Listing Norms
With the aim of boosting India’s startup ecosystem, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the body that regulates Indian stock markets, has relaxed listing and fund raising norms for the startups. According to India’s IT industry trade body Nasscom’s key findings of the India Start-up Report 2014, there are:...
India’s Software and Hardware Representative Bodies Partner to Support the ‘Digital India’ Initiative
The partnership between the National Association of Software and Services Companies and the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association is aimed at making India a leading player in the IT and the Electronic System Design and Manufacturing industry over the next decade. With electronics, computing and communication paradigms shifting to the...
Many Countries Evince Interest in India’s Proposed Smart Cities
During the Smart Cities India 2015 Expo in New Delhi from May 20 – 22, many countries expressed keenness in investing in the Indian Government’s smart cities project. Poland expressed interest in partnering with India’s smart cities and industrial corridors, exploring investments in power and mining sectors in many Indian...
IT employs 2.8 million Indians today and expects revenues of $225 billion by 2012
My friend Som Mittal used to run Hewlett Packard's India operations from Bangalore. Upon "retirement" he took over as the President of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies or Nasscom and moved to New Delhi. Som was three years ahead of me in undergraduate school and I've met...