A country well known for its software services now has an opportunity to build world-beating software products.

In a rare interview, Christensen tells Business Today the relevance of his theory of disruptive innovation and explains with real-life examples how it could play out in today's context.

Cutting open the battery packs, and extracting individual cells that could still work, the team reconnected them to make new power units.

\"This could let us do in months what it would otherwise take years and years to do,\" said Erica Ollmann Saphire, a biomedical researcher at Scripps.

IBM announced the third in a string of billion dollar plus contracts, saying it had won a seven-year, $1.25 billion deal with WPP, the world's top advertising firm, to run WPP operations in the cloud.

Kumar Mangalam Birla wanted Idea Cellular to be among the top three mobile operators in India. Himanshu Kapania made that happen.

Nadella restructured Microsoft that has been struggling with the declining market in PCs to focus on cloud services and mobile technology, Tech Times reported.

The results allayed fears of investors that the industry shift toward lower-margin cloud services was proving hard for established technology leaders to master.

A key reason why top software companies are rushing to engage with start-ups is that, in many countries and sectors, start-ups are doing the most innovative work.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said a world-class (cloud) infrastructure, in the country's US $2 trillion cloud market, will help revitalise productivity.

Under the new arrangement, manufacturing, finance and legal functions at Oracle will continue to report to Catz, while sales and service units will continue to report to Hurd.

Other than PCs and notebooks, HP provides IT solutions to companies. She would not talk about it due to confidentiality issues, but one of Dhawan's proud achievements is a contract with India Post to connect 28,000 offices.

Globally, many start-ups have either tweaked their business models or even changed their main business to survive - and succeed - after initially failing to make a mark.

What could be the deepest job cuts in the company's 39-year history come five months into the tenure of Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, who outlined plans for a \"leaner\" business in a public memo to employees last week.

The company also plans to develop cloud services optimized for Apple's mobile operating system, iOS.

With football fever spreading all over the Internet and social media, thanks to the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil, many companies wanted to grab a bit of the spoils - some went the advertising route, while others wanted to be event partners. Aspera helped IBM get a deal to broadcast the matches live.

Capgemini took a little time in adopting India as its global hub for offshoring but is now going full throttle.

With this the company aims to get a stronger foothold in the Internet of Things (IoT) market.

\"We will open the new labs in Bangalore, Beijing, Groningen (Netherlands), London, Melbourne, New York, Sao Paulo and Shanghai to provide our clients an opportunity to work with our researchers and consultants on design, data and analytics,\" the US-based company said in a statement here.

According to sources, over 50 employees at IBM's Systems Technology Group (STG) in Bangalore were handed pink slips on February 12 as part of its global 'Resource Action' or restructuring programme.