January 15, 2016 - Google to host live contest dubbed 'Startup India Standup India', to offer $1,00000 to the highest voted startup

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Invite Friends Blog Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk Steve Jobs wanted 'serendipitous personal encounters' to occur between his employees, so his office bathrooms were placed accordingly. Freshbooks in Canada sets its employees up on 'blind dates' (no, not the romantic kind), so they can get to know each other better, make friends at work and yes, possibly come up with out of the box ideas. Is your organization more than a few dozen people? What are you doing to encourage serendipity? - Comment Digital Google to host live contest dubbed 'Startup India Standup India', to offer $1,00000 to the highest voted startup Google has announced that it’ll be hosting a live contest dubbed as the “Startup India Standup India” to promote start-ups in India. Have a penchant for good content? 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Software India's newest startup unicorn Shopclues.com says it is more IPO-ready than competitors Q&A with ShopClues's co-founder and CEO Sanjay Sethi. Software Tech Mahindra bets big on digital technologies like automation and internet-of-things : Will invest in 22 platforms Over the last few months, the company has said it would invest in startups, seek external funding for internal units and would partner with technology providers. Ecommerce Mahindra & Mahindra ties-up with Flipkart, CarNbike.com and M2all to sell its small SUV 'KUV 100 Aimed at the youth and the first time car buyers, Mahindra is hoping to create some buzz online, for KUV 100, on the online retail platform. Ecommerce Amazon expands logistics reach with move into ocean shipping to get a foothold in the $350 billion a year ocean freight business Its new status as a freight forwarder, or "non-vessel operating common carrier," gives Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, a foothold in the .. 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V, Vice President – Human Resources, Omega In the next two years it is expected that the current volume of medical coders will be almost doubled as earlier the international coding standards ha.. HR Capgemini appoints Srinivas Kandula as CEO of its India operations French information technology services company CapGemini SA on Wednesday said it has appointed Srinivas Kandula as chief executive officer for India effective 1 January, replacing Aruna Jayanthi, who has moved to a global role within the group. 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