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Story of BillDesk and how it became India's largest bill payment platform

Founded by three former executives of Arthur Andersen, it initially offered banks a platform that enabled their customers to pay bills from their homes

Hiring sentiment highest in India, 17% firms keen on freshers: Survey

Sectors that have withstood pandemic impact and have had a stronger hiring sentiment are IT (31%), telecom (25%) and tech startups (25%)

Growing small and medium businesses embrace the digital-first world

71% of growing SMBs say their business survived the pandemic because of digitisation

Big Tech under the scanner in India after South Korea slaps fine on Google

Regulators and startups in India are beginning to push back against what they see as monopolistic practices

Japan's Rakuten forays into India's B2B tech segment, launches new product

This is the first time that Rakuten will be bringing its products and services into the Indian market

PharmEasy buys majority stake in healthcare supply chain start-up Aknamed

API's subsidiary PharmEasy, which is planning an IPO, will acquire 975,937 equity share in the company

TCS announces 'Rebegin project', its largest women recruitment drive

Rebegin is a TCS Careers Initiative intended to benefit women professionals who have taken a career break due to family or other commitments to help them return to the company

At Infosys, how pandemic brought importance of reskilling to the fore

To begin with, Infosys identified 36 skills that were important and created learning pathways

India Inc gets to work as it starts designing return to office toolkit

Domestic companies, including those in manufacturing, are also ready to bring back vaccinated employees

Indian fintech market poised for multi-fold growth for newer biz models

India, as the KPMG report suggests, is a unique market where the regulator has been actively involved in giving access to new-age fintech players

Get it right in the first instance: TCS mantra for government orders

Scale a challenge, but systems built here can be replicated anywhere, says executive

PayU aims to provide full-stack financial services to its customers

So far, the company has disbursed about $300 million in credit and it now wants to add new products

PayU acquires BillDesk for $4.7 bn in one of largest Indian fintech deals

The latest deal is happening when the Indian payments segment is seeing huge traction

How IT firms are solving skills divide as they go back to campuses

Though the salary level of the students being hired has remained Rs 3-3.5 lakh for years, companies are ready to shell out more for those who excel in coding and programme languages

Freshworks files documents for listing in US; looking to raise $100 mn

Founder thanks Superstar Rajnikanth for being an inspiration

Cloud and new tech shift, localisation law drive data centre push in India

The Indian Data Centre (DC) industry is expected to more than double to 1,007 Mw by 2023 from its existing capacity of 447 Mw, says a JLL report

Lenovo expands local manufacturing capacity to meet rising customer demand

Total revenue for all Lenovo Group businesses in India was approximately $462 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2021

IT services major Capgemini is driving more value from India unit

For Ashwin Yardi, CEO India, Capgemini, the focus is to make sure that the India unit is aligned with global plans of repositioning company as a hub of engineering R&D, operational technology, and IT

ChrysCapital, True North Managers and others invest $150 mn in QuEST Global

The existing investors - Bain Capital, Advent, and GIC, continue to remain invested. O3 Capital acted as the sole financial advisor to the transaction

Smytten raises $6 mn in Series A funding led by Fireside Ventures

With more than 5 million users, Smytten is one of the largest direct-to-consumer sampling platforms in India