How semi-literate children in a remote Indian village taught themselves molecular biology
Sugata Mitra's radical new teaching method promises to upend education as we know it.
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Sirion Labs on mission to cut waste in outsourcing
Indian SaaS provider's processes and analytics designed to reduce wastage in major outsourcing arrangements.
India's Contify dispenses knowledge in the cloud
It's a cliché, but worth restating — information in today’s business environment is worth its weight in gold, and it's a strategic weapon if you can access it and act on it in a timely fashion. That's where Contify comes in.
India's ParaBlu claims to supply totally secure cloud storage
SaaS storage provider uses hardare plug-in appliance to protect client data in the cloud.
India's Indix providing cloud insights for marketers
With a database of 250 million product URLs, over 50,000 brands and nearly 10,000 product attributes, Indix aims to deliver real-time insights on products, pricing, promotions, channels and much else besides.
IBM's cloud-based AutoDX promises to make India's auto industry more efficient
If this major initiative works, it will usher in much-needed relief to a cyclically embattled industry
India's Chargebee takes the sting out of billing hassles
Chargebee is yet another company whose origins can be traced to indignant comments on a Hacker news post about a subscription rate hike — in this case, at billing infrastructure leader Chargify — which inspired the founders to jump-start a competing service.
Deskaway emblematic of new Indian SaaS businesses
Two important factors contributed to the birth of Deskaway — a web-based collaboration app that provides a central location for teams to easily manage projects.
HCL-CSC alliance signals potential merger
The partnership between the Indian and US companies may seem to be a straightforward bid for greater market access, but some think there's more to it than that on the horizon.
India's SaaS cloud stars
India has long been derided as a desert for product companies. Some point to the country’s long history as a colonial subject as a reason for this phenomena, others to its socialist past, and many to its lack of a culture of scientific innovation of any significant scale and reach post-independence.