January 5, 2016 - The gorilla warfare is on in India's e-commerce space: Let's see who wins -- Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, Paytm, or a futuristic merged entity
From the Editor's Desk In a classic case of 'God complex', Paul Graham seems to have stepped beyond his area of expertise with his latest essay, incurring the wrath of many - Paul Graham is still asking to be eaten. He claims that he is a manufacturer of economic inequality, a statement that begs to be attacked. While his proficiency in helping produce successful startups through YCombinator is beyond doubt, the problem with his latest essay is his tunnel vision to think that Silicon Valley/he has the solution to the economic problems of the world. What makes Silicon Valley look good is the comparison with Wall Street, where greed and fear have destroyed wealth for many, while a few have run away with millions. In the larger scheme of things, Silicon Valley only embodies a better form of capitalism where consumers generally gain, but the primary driver is still investors demanding a high return on investment. It does nothing in important areas where markets themselves fail (fundamental innovation in sciences/research, healthcare, etc). Capitalism itself is far from perfect and governments around the world (including the US) keep trying to plug its weaknesses through various forms of incentives, penalties and wealth transfers. The economic inequality problem is not something Silicon Valley can solve by itself - Comment
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Is "Free Basics" The Right Strategy For Facebook? Since this limits internet access and provides an advantage to the sites which can be accessed for free, activists in India have been opposing this service stating that it is a threat to net neutrality. Apart from India, Facebook has partnered with telecom carriers to offer
Govt agencies to develop tech varsity exam software The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and National Informatics Centre (NIC) have expressed interest to develop a software solution for online evaluation of answer papers of engineering examinations of the APJ Adbul Kalam Technological University .
The 11 highest-paying jobs at Yahoo Getty ImagesYahoo may be struggling as a business, but it's still one of the biggest websites in the world.It gets hundreds of millions of users every month,
The ad-tech of tomorrow, today : Report I remember watching the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report and thinking: “Nah, that will never happen.” But, to my surprise, 13 years later the ad technologies portrayed in that movie have almost become a reality.
A Reporter Remembers AB Bardhan In public memory, communists are usually remembered as ascetic, dour, and humourless personalities. During the many years in which I interacted with the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), AB Bardhan, as a reporter, I found that he passed the first marker with flying colours, and failed the other two by…
Pathankot terror attack: BJP says Congress politics over terrorism unfortunate BJP sources said the government's decision to start dialogue with Pakistan was driven by its intentions to show the world that it wanted peace with the neighbouring country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise stopover in Lahore was a part of these efforts.
These 6 Maps Show Odd Even Rule Has Reduced Traffic In Delhi It's been three days that the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government imposed the odd-even rule in the city. However, the real test for Kejriwal's odd-even anti-pollution rule began today, with Delhiites
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