Should bitcoin be valued more than McDonald’s? Here’s how global banks are weighing inValue of bitcoin in circulation is more than $200 billion, greater than market value of McDonald’s.
Indians top league of nerds in spotting bugs for tech companiesBug bounties are monetary rewards offered by tech firms to geeks who spot bugs, errors and security flaws before malicious hackers spot the...
Ratan Tata, American Express invest in digital currency startup AbraThis is the first investment in digital payment services for Tata, who has previously shown interest in consumer-facing online ventures.
Twitter names ex-Google executive Omid Kordestani chairmanTwitter Inc appointed former Google Inc executive Omid Kordestani as its executive chairman, the latest step in the company's turnaround ef...
How Lycos almost won the search engine warsIt was exhilarating to be back in the game again, a 20-year-old college dropout with stock options, working at the center of the internet r...
How young companies are challenging fossil fuels with solar, wind energy to build better batteriesThis market for storage capacity will increase almost 10-fold in three years to 2,400 mw, equal to six natural gas turbines, Navigant Consu...
The genie is out of the bottle in India, says Adobe CEO Shantanu NarayenWhenever a country leapfrogs generations of technology it actually bypasses the limitations that exist in other countries. That’s what I se...
India feels like Silicon Valley in 1998: US venture capitalist Jeremy WenokurWhile the two firms have exited India to focus on investing in the US, Wenokur chose to set up Lightbox Ventures, a $100 million fund, alon...
Citrus Payment ropes in econtext Asia, Beenos Asia to raise Rs 33.9 crore for expansion plansThe new investors include Japanese company econtext Asia and Beenos Asia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce and incubation m...
Marc Andreessen, Vinod Khosla backed Boku Inc acquires Indian startup QubecellGlobal payment company Boku, backed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen & venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, acquired mobile payment start...
- Aditya Mittal ranked 6th on Fortune's top young biz leaders list
ArcelorMittal's CFO Aditya Mittal is ranked 6th on Fortune's '40 under 40,' a list of top young biz leaders who are "innovating and expandi...
- Apple chief is the 'smartest CEO' in Fortune tech list
Apple's iconic chief Steve Jobs has emerged as the 'smartest CEO' in the field of technology, says Fortune, which has published a list of '...
- Mozilla to launch web browser for cellphones
Firefox mobile is expected to be available for most open environments like Android, Nokia’s Maemo, Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.
- Google chief admits to defensive component of Chrome
Through Chrome, Google wants to become the leader in all Internet areas. Last major browser war was won by Microsoft against Netscape. Brai...
- No frills attached
Company that has attracted opprobrium of rivals, from Red Hat to Sun Microsystems to Oracle, its founder Bill Gates is arguably the most re...
- NIC in talks with Google and Yahoo for search engine
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is in talks with global majors such as Google and Yahoo for improving its search facilities across go...
- AOL names Indian CEO as global ops head
America Online Limited (AOL) has announced that Maneesh Dhir, who was so far heading its Indian operations, will lead the company's interna...