Freshdesk names STS Prasad senior VP of engineeringA former VP of product at WalmartLabs, Prasad has held various leadership roles at Amazon. com, Kosmix, Junglee, HCL and Sybase. He has alr...
After comfortable jobs in Silicon Valley, it's ghar wapsi for Indian engineersSenior-level Indian engineers and executives are beginning to leave comfortable jobs in Silicon Valley to join startups in India.
Nine techies who are leaving the Silicon Valley to join startups in IndiaSenior-level Indian engineers and executives are beginning to leave comfortable jobs in Silicon Valley to join startups in India.
NEA, Nexus lead $2.6-million round in SaaS startup Blueshift“Blueshift’s mission is to enable marketers to use the power of big fast data to build deeper relationships with their customers,” said Vij...
Srinivasan Seshadri's retail search company Zettata improves efficiency of e-commerce sitesSeshadri and some of his colleagues crawled e-commerce sites and found that their search technology could be improved.
Walmart to expand tech centre at Bangalore as it takes on e-commerce rival AmazonThe Bangalore centre which currently employs 400 people, will more than double its headcount by the end of next year, sources said.
Rashmi Sinha, brother Amit Ranjan sell world’s largest slide-sharing site SlideShare to LinkedIn.com for Rs 640 crThe servers from where the portal delivers slides to users across the world are named after actresses Aishwarya Rai, Celina Jaitley, Bipash...
Walmart Labs in India poaches Amazon's Gunaranjan Pemmarajugets as its Indian technology center headRajaraman said that Pemmaraju will hire a team to develop tecnologies that will "accelerate new generation of e-commerce for Walmart custom...
Meet Anand Rajaraman, helping Walmart change the way it sells to customersRajaraman, an early investors in Facebook, a serial entrepreneur and technologist who sold a company to Amazon for $250 mn at the age of 27.
- Walmart to start innovation lab in India; likely to woo talent from Amazon, Google and Yahoo
Walmart has already started hiring & 100-person lab will be up and running the end of this year, a top company executive said.
- How Walmart plans to use Kosmix's social media platform created by Anand Rajaraman & Venky Harinarayan to take on Facebook & Google
Rajaraman & Harinarayan are expected to shake things up in the e-commerce space since the twosome will shape Walmart's digital strategy glo...
- Walmart to acquire India-born entrepreneurs' social media site
The world's largest retailer, Walmart has announced acquisition of social media site Kosmix, a Silicon Valley firm founded by two IIT Chenn...
- It's time to explore the internet with Kosmix
After Google, what next? After search engines and social networking, the next big internet idea could be an explore engine.
- It's now time for explore engines
After Google, what’s next? After search engines and social networking, the next big internet idea could be an explore engine.
- Men who spurned Google create Kosmix
Kosmix will have videos, images, community, question/answers and widgets brought together by a powerful search engine.