Berkshire Hathway is a gigantic global conglomerate. Headed by billionaire investor Warren Buffet, it has interests in multinational corporations like IBM, American Express and Coca Cola. An investment decision by the company can shake up stock markets, and its total assets in 2014 were 526 billion.
However its website looks like this.
After foreign companies, including Google, Amazon, Uber have already made a beeline for the state, they Indian counterparts are following suit. Flipkart, India’s premier etailer, had decided to set up its largest warehouse in Telangana. This will be the company’s 16th warehouse in the country.
If you’d planned to plant yourself in front of a computer and avail of the awesome discounts on offer during Flipkart’s Big Billion Day sale, prepare to be disappointed. Flipkart’s biggest annual sale will only be available to the users of its app.
The tech world was abuzz this morning with reports that Quikr was eyeing a majority stake in real estate portal CommonFloor. An Economic Times article had stated that the deal would be worth Rs. 330 crore, and had been in the works for the last 5 months. The news was gaining steam and being picked up by other publications, until co-founder Vikas Malpani intervened.
Bangalore has yet another swanky office to add to its growing list. [24] 7, one of the world’s largest providers of chat agents, has set up a spanking new office in the city.
The office is spread over 4.5 lakh square feet and can house 7,000 employees.
Modi’s promised Acche Din might have taken some time coming, but they finally seem to be here. On the heels of his historic Digital India summit in Silicon Valley in which the Prime Minister launched a charm offensive on global CEOs, it has emerged that India led the world in Foreign Investment in 2015.
Instamojo has recently turned 3, and the company has moved into a swanky new Bangalore office. Founded in 2012 by Aditya Sengupta, Akash Gehani, Harshad Sharma and Sampad Swain, Instamojo provides customers a platform to sell digital goods like ebooks, reports, comic books, music, software, templates, photos and tutorials by listing the item on the website and sharing the web link with others.
Indian startup employees have never had it so good. After Flipkart and Snapdeal had annouced new offices that would make the most jaded employee start looking forward to Mondays, Freecharge has come up with a brand new office of its own.
Name a need, and there’s an app for it. Technology these days can help you find jobs, cars, and even love. But what if all one wants is a nice stiff drink at the end of a long day? Some young Indian kids think they have a solution.